The current technology trends dictate that hard drive storage for PCs keep growing. Hard drive space continues to grow at an exponential rate while the price of the hard drives continue to drop.

When I hear individuals talking about purchasing a new PC, and they give me the specifications about the processor, memory and hard drive space; I really start wondering if this individual understands what they’re really saying.

Newer desktop machines are being purchased with larger hard drives, somewhere in the neighborhood of 750 to 1 TB of hard drive space available. And while this may be fine and dandy, this brings up the subject of how does this information get backed up and are people thinking about this when their systems are purchased?

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iPhone users have enjoyed Hootsuite for a while, but the team of developers at Hootsuite have been nice enough to bring it to Android.

Hootsuite integrates, social networking and communications in to one place, making it easier to manage your accounts. And in my opinion has done a great job by recently adding Facebook and linkedin.

Being able to review all your incoming communications in to one spot makes things easier and more entertaining.

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I couple of weeks ago, I did a review on the latest version of Paperport v12 Professional. I was reviewing the product as anyone would if they were looking to apply it in the corporate environment or at home; what did it do? How did it do it and was it easy enough to use.

During the process of reviewing and dissecting the program, going through it’s various functions, I thought about all the programs I’ve ever used and does what Paperport does… With everything that Paperport does, could it be replaced it something else- an alternative?

The answer is YES.

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At this point, of all the things I’ve to deal with like programs, software and technical issues, I REALLY dislike Adobe FLASH right now.

I’ve a Dell laptop that I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows XP and I’ve found out that the Ubuntu/Linux Version of Adobe Flash is a resource hog and it consistently crashes my laptop from overheating.

Anytime I visit a site with FLASH on Ubuntu 9.10 I get these huge spikes in CPU usage and it turns the site in to just crap; nothing works or responds.

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In what seems to be a reaction to some data that was presented a few weeks ago, I think that Google has tired of dealing with the ISP’s of the U.S. and have decided to challenge them by going head-to-head, creating their own ISP.

Google continues to push forward with their aggressive position and option of what they think the Internet should be and what it should offer.

The push of Google in to this arena shows that it can be done and that the other ISP’s are just ISP HOG’s.

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I remember the days when fax machines were just coming out, and I remember the days when computers started coming with fax modems, and that was the beginning of the end for the FAX machine.

I was working with Microsoft the other day on an issue [pertaining to work] and as I was talking to the lady on the phone she said I could ‘FAX’ the information over to them and they would process it. –this just staggered me.

It was funny because I had received the information from them about an activation via email and yet they were expecting me to FAX them back something?!

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I’m not going to argue the point that Microsoft Outlook is a very popular email client, and it’s the most used, and desired, function of Microsoft Office, but I think at what cost are we using it?

Microsoft Office/Outlook 2007 is not my email client of choice, but I’ve to use it at work. Every job/office I know of uses Microsoft Outlook for their email clients and typically the machines Microsoft Outlook was loaded on was not a supreme machine.

So how’s this really productive? It’s not.

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This article is based on my complete disgust for the way TV programming works right now.

For the last twenty years, the Internet has been moving and growing; it’s morphed so many times and now it’s almost like it’s omnipresent. It’s an expected service of just about every device you’ve and it’s not the most used information outlet; Television is still the most viewed/used.

It’s unquestionable that the picture quality of TV has gotten better, but the same basic programming, how that content is presented to us, hasn’t changed.

Your still provided with a ‘guide’. Whether it was a TV guide or an electronic guide of what was on. It’s current state is horrible…

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