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Category Archives: Technology
How Google Drive Crashed Our Verizon DSL For Almost a Month
File this one under “never in a million years” and “crazy shit like this only happens to small business owners who are already time-crunched.” On the off chance that someone else runs into the same issue, I decided to post the email exchange I had with Google Apps Enterprise Support. I/we aren’t really that mad, just happy to finally solve the issue and get back to work, while also a little perplexed that GDrive can effectively take down a business class DSL network. My email from this morning: We recently experienced a very odd issue with Google Drive. The only … Continue reading
Someone Needs to Make This…
I’m a big podcast fan. Several of my favorites also record video, most notably the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders and TWiT Network shows (This Week in Tech, This Week in Google, and Tech News Today). I like to consume these shows in a variety of situations – in the car, in the shower, while I’m cooking, while I’m doing errands, or just when I’m bored and want to watch something interesting. I also use a variety of software and devices – iTunes on my computer, iTunes on my iPod Touch, Stitcher on my Galaxy S II, YouTube or the show’s … Continue reading
Review of My Amazon Kindle 3G
In June I finally decided it was time to buy a Kindle. I had just donated a bunch of books that I didn’t want anymore, and decided I’d rather not add to my physical collection in the future. That, and I also love playing with new gadgets So I picked up one of the 3G models for $189. The free, lifetime, worldwide 3G coverage seemed worth the extra $50 to me. I envision that it will be highly convenient at airports, train stations, hotels, etc. Now that it’s been a few months, and I’ve been able to complete several books, … Continue reading
One More Thought on Chromebooks and Single-Purpose Devices
One of my favorite devices is the Sansa Clip. It’s the perfect MP3 player for the gym. It’s cheap, it’s tiny, it’s lightweight, it has a super long battery life. Everything about it just works. Maybe the best thing about it though is that it’s not my phone. While any modern smartphone is more than capable of being a MP3 player, it comes with several disadvantages. If you break it, you break your phone. If you lose it, you lose your phone. It’s most definitely heavier and bigger. It uses your phone’s battery. And you can get interrupted with phone … Continue reading
Where I Think Google Went Wrong With Chromebooks
We’re living in exciting times for computing. There’s this ubiquity that’s forming where the lines are blurred between what’s a web browser, an app, and an operating system, and what’s a computer, a tablet, a phone, an e-reader, a gaming machine, a television, etc. The announcements from Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, and the like seem to be coming at us fast and furious. It’s pretty awesome that we’re right in the middle of it all. While Google has a huge horse in the race with Android, they seem to be taking a much bigger risk with Chrome OS, their cloud … Continue reading
What Will Biographies Read Like in 100 Years?
I’m about half way through reading A. Lincoln, Ronald C. White Jr.’s NY Times Bestselling biography of Abraham Lincoln. Part of what makes the book great to read is that Mr. White regularly is able to pull quotes from Lincoln’s personal correspondences with friends, family members, and politicians. These are readily available online on the Library of Congress website as part of a project called The Abraham Lincoln Papers, consisting of some 20,000 documents. Without being able to read those intimate remarks, it would be much more difficult for me sitting here in 2011 to really get to know who … Continue reading
Happy to be Finally Paying for Google Apps Premiere
One of the goals of our company has always been to keep as much of our data on the web as possible, preventing the loss of a single computer from hurting us, and making it simple for anyone to get up and running on a new machine in minutes. We’ve also always tried to have redundant backups of everything. However unlikely, it’s always possible that the worst case emergency scenario can happen. Back in 2008 we migrated all of our email to Google Apps. Along with email, we also moved all of our documents and wikis. It’s almost impossible to … Continue reading
90 Million iPhones. 17 Suicides. Do People Care? Let’s Find Out
That’s the cover of last month’s Wired magazine. The corresponding piece by Joel Johnson, 1 Million Workers. 90 Million iPhones. 17 Suicides. Who’s to Blame? is a really thought provoking read about the Foxconn plant in China where iPhones are manufactured…and where 17 people have killed themselves in the past five years. It probably would be more if they didn’t install “suicide nets” to safely catch anyone who tries to jump: The sister piece, Made in America: Small Businesses Buck the Offshoring Trend discusses a trend of American businesses who are choosing to manufacture in the US to cut down … Continue reading
Unsubscribed From TechCrunch
Mark Cuban professes to read three hours a day. [He points out] that one great idea he gets from a magazine he spends hours reading will pay off a thousand times over for his business. The challenge then is to limit the crap you consume and focus on what’s actually going to help you. You know, so you can actually make progress with your company. I might not spend three hours a day like Mark Cuban, but I’d say I read close to two a day. I stand by that quote I wrote in 2008. Since writing that post about … Continue reading
My Review of the Cr-48 Google Chrome OS Notebook
We were lucky enough to receive a Cr-48 Chrome Notebook from Google as part of their pilot program because of our involvement with LockerPulse in the Chrome Web App Store. I’ve been using it quite a bit for several days now. My overall impression is that I’m pleasantly surprised with where they’re at and I see a lot of potential in Chrome OS as a whole. More specifically… The Hardware So supposedly Google doesn’t want anyone to critique the Cr-48 hardware. It’s simply just a shell to house Chrome OS, the real devices won’t necessarily be anything like it, they … Continue reading