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Desktop synchronisation
For home desktop backup and synchronisation, I have been using a combination of Foldermatch and Carbonite. Carbonite offers unlimited online backup storage for a single machine for less than $60 a year, and Foldermatch allows me to synchronise folders across machines. Although neither works directly with Linux, I can run Foldermatch on a Wintel desktop [...]
Goodbye to the year of the Wave
Will 2009 be remembered as the year of the Wave? Google Wave is still in trial, and having played around with it for a bit, it is clearly still a bit rough around the edges. One tends to try and use it like we use email, and knowing where to put waves, where to find [...]
Does everything grow exponentially?
An interesting talk by Ray Kurzweil, well worth the 40 minutes’ investment. Did he come up with Moore’s Law before Gordon Moore thought of it? Just how universal is it? Not everyone likes what he says. Douglas Hofstadter, who wrote the best book I’ve ever read, said of Kurzweil’s and Hans Moravec’s books: “It’s as [...]
ONS Web Strategy
I was asked to present the ONS Web Strategy to a programme board last week, and also include some material on data mashups. I searched for good simple but visually stimulating demos, and was disappointed to find very little new material. I returned to the Yahoo Pipes demo I created two years ago, and found [...]
The Wave is growing
I’ve highlighted Google Wave before, but now it has been launched to a large number of beta users, more and more people are exploring just what it can do. Here is a wonderful demonstration of Google Wave for Tarantino fans (not for the faint hearted!):