April 2012
4 posts
The 'cloud' has failed me
This week, despite all the hype, the cloud has completely failed me. Let me recap this weeks events: I would like to store all my data online for these reasons: 1. Access anywhere. 2. Sync between multiple computers. 3. Off site backup. 4. Easy sharing. I love Dropbox, but I cannot afford a plan that will fit all my user data, and media (photos and video). Despite the pressure from MS, Google...
Apr 29th
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Did using Picasa for Mac just get my IP banned?
Since I won’t be buying 100Gs on Google Drive anytime soon thanks to their ridiculously bad Mac client, I decided to just archive my photo library to Google+. If you let it resize the photos to 2048, there is unlimited storage. For now I just want a cloud backup of my photos somewhere, so I figured I’d live with the reduced resolution.   My entire photo collection is currently indexed...
Apr 28th
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GDrive sucking 2 - 4% CPU on Macs while idling!
So while I was getting all giddy planning how I was going to solve all my sync / backup problems using GDrive’s affordable storage I forgot to check one thing… resource usage. Sure enough, my fears were confirmed, GDrive sucks CPU with reckless abandon. Let’s compare Dropbox and GDrive in a different way from all those charts you’ve been seeing this week: On my Mac GDrive...
Apr 26th
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Getting Rid of Paper with Evernote
I am a long time Evernote user. I’ve been using it since 2006, back when it was only a Windows client and there was no online service component. One of my favorite uses for Evernote is to get rid of paper. In this post I’ll show you some of the ways that I use Evernote to eliminate paper storage. Indexing One of the great things about Evernote is its ability to automatically index...
Apr 11th