Have an iPhone and need to sync all your information accross all devices? You shouldn't limit yourself to using iCloud, Google sync can be a great alternative!
iCloud makes a lot of sense for those using only Apple devices however if you have a PC or an Android device as well Google sync is your best friend.
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Music is magical in ways that sometimes we forget. It has been talked about helping surgeons during long operations with concentration, stimulating patients with brain damage, used as a form of therapy, helped with learning disabilities, the list goes on!
I think of music as a great glass of wine that needs to be paired with every activity no matter what. I was very happy to find out that someone thought of this and created Songza which simple does just that. Started in New York the music streaming service offers a user friendly web interface in addition to iPhone, Android, and Kindle Fire support. Songza is design to complement any activity with a great play-list
As soon as you login to the site or start the app on your smart device it checks your local time. It then presents you with common activities you can choose from. Once you select the activity you see a list of genres (ie. selecting work or study will give you the following genres: Jazz, Acoustic, Film Scores, Electronic, Classical). Once you make your choice here last screen will give you playlists to choose from which match your activity and genre of choice.
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I tried to go paper-less many times in the past 10 years but there was always a difficult part in the process that made me give up. By nature I'm a lazy person so scanning and sorting my paper was a job I didn't want to do. I knew organizing and locating all these documents on my computer would be much easier then sticking them in folders in a ugly filing cabinet the whole time but I hadn't find Fujistsu ScanSnap just yet.
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Most of us have more than one computer around the house. Some of us even have media players connected to our music system, streaming devices connected to our TVs, tablets, and etc. Now wouldn't it be awesome if there was one device in your house that you can use for keeping all your files? One device that will offer the best protection against losing your data, and offer permission options to control who can access what. Basic home-server that all your devices can easily access to for your multimedia and you and your wife can collect your pictures?
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Televisions and mobile devices are the center of attention for most of the tech companies these days. These two areas are where we will see the most innovation within the next two years. Some of the magical stuff is already here for us to enjoy such as Apple TV and Roku and some others such as TVs thinner then your cell phone at amazing 4mm, or cell phones that can turn into laptops were announced at this year's CES.
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Let's look at behind the scenes at that small shop where a friendly old man sells coffee beans, and espresso cups, that shoe store owned by an Italian guy with funny jokes, how about that furniture store with always something cool in display? Wait. Where did they go? Some of them are gone and some are about to give up. But why?
I hear some of you saying why do I care? I can buy (almost) everything from my smart-phone unless of course I can't wait for Amazon to ship it to me. Hey wait they now offer local same day delivery in most places or the worse case scenario there is a giant store not too far from me which has everything I can possibly need inside.
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It's amazing how much we can do with our cell phones, isn't it? I plan on writing a post called "things I do on my phone" very soon but I'm afraid to get started since it'll be a quite a long one.
Every time I upgraded my iPhone, I got happier. It's like a never ending cycle I'm caught in. Apple (at the very least) expects you to replace your phone every other year. I'm certain other phone manufacturers want you would swap phones often as well. When we replace our phones industry benefits in many ways. More stuff newer phones can do means more services, apps, upgrades, and bundles are available and sometimes necessary for purchase in addition to revenue made from the selling of new phones.
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Are you one of those folks who are weary of storing any of your files online? If so you really are missing out! Number of cloud based tools and cloud integration to existing devices are blowing my mind these days and I wanted change your mind today. Even if I don't get to accomplish my goal with this post at the very least you will now what you're missing out on.
I'll dive into examples since this is the best way to demonstrate what cloud storage can really do. Let's talk about DropBox, it's nominated for the best cloud service and best overall startup in the cloud category of Crunchies 2011 awards. Currently many people take advantage of its simple yet very powerful ability of making your data portable. Dropbox has a software for Mac, Windows, or Linux so to get started you install the program on your computer, then create a free account (up to 2GB free). DropBox creates a folder on your computer and keeps all data in this folder constantly synched among all your other devices.
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In plain English we're about to pass bills to censor websites that infringes copyrighted material. These bills would legalize same tecniques used by countries like China & Iran to stop piracy by building a framework for resctriction and surpression.
]]>Consumer Electronics Show has always been something I wanted personally experience but as I follow it year after year it seems to be less and less interesing and more and more irrelevant.
Technology seems to be evolving so frequently that having a show to display what's coming in the next 12 months seems unpractical. Most companies seems to change direction on new products or jump onto new ideas hence year after year what we hear at CES suppose to be setting a trend never really does. 2008 it was WiMax (upgrade to 3G) now almost dead. 2009 was 3D TV and wireless charging of your gadgets both hasn't captured any popularity. 2010 was Android tablets (iPad killer), iPad is still very much alive and I rarely see anyone using an Android tablet. 2011 was cellphones that you can turn into a laptop, we all have one of these, right?
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