What would happen if at a school’s talent show some parents stood up and started heckling the child playing the piano or dancing in front of them? “You’re awful!” or “You call yourself a dancer?” For one thing, it would never happen. And if it did, the rest of the audience would turn on the heckler and defend the 13-year-old performer.
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Yogile makes itself out to be a group photo sharing site the likes of which we haven’t seen before – it offers simplicity that can’t be achieved elsewhere.
The feature that sells it for me is that anyone is able to submit photos to your account by email – unlike Flickr where every single photo has to be uploaded or emailed by you, you just set an address and anyone with photos can email them to that address as attachments and they’ll be posted online – your friends and family don’t even need to register.
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The iTwin USB Remote File Access USB sticks lets you share one computer’s data with another computer anywhere in the world, as long as both computers are connected to the Internet.
Plug the primary iTwin device into your main computer, and then carry the secondary device around with you. When you need to access your files, just plug the secondary iTwin device into your computer like a memory stick and it will access your files on your main computer. The only requirement is that the computers both need to be connected to the internet.
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If you’re a frequent reader of GfG, you already know we’re big into computer security, so we’re pleased to see when companies like Google, Twitter and Facebook who have such enormous numbers of users improve the security and privacy of users.
For example, Twitter now allows users to enable HTTPS as constantly on for their connection to the Twitter website. In the past, you could either manually type in https in the URL or use a browser extension or even more complicated tweak to do so.
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Microsoft has just released the latest version of Internet Explorer, version 9. IE 9 is a major release with significant improvements but still has some issues that Microsoft needs to tackle if it wants to continue competing with the likes of Google, Mozilla and even Apple.
What’s New
Performance: IE 9 is a major overhaul whose performance especially in the JavaScript rendering arena is now more on par with current products such as Google’s Chrome. This will naturally improve the responsiveness of JavaScript-heavy Web 2.0 sites.
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Another search engine is on the horizon. This one, called Greplin, aims to let you search your cloud-based data and is really more of a personal search engine than a search-the-world type of application. Think of it as Google Desktop for the Web instead of your computer.
Greplin currently works with data stores and services like Gmail, Twitter, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Evernote, and of course Facebook. It also allows you to add additional services for ones that aren’t included out of the box.
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It is a fact that the iPhone (and now the iPad as well) has been one of the most successful product of the century and has become a dream purchase for many. Also the continually-increasing 3G infrastructure upgrades and growing number of WiFi networks across the globe have boosted data speeds.
In tandem with this growth, almost every broadband provider have built their own apps with various applications in mind. Here I have listed three (3) must-have apps categories with two (2) apps each for a total of 6 apps.
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Amazon has gifted free TV and Movie streaming for Amazon Prime Members.
Let’s look at the benefits of a paid Amazon Prime Membership:
1) Unlimited FREE Two-Day Shipping
2) No minimum order size
3) One-Day shipping for $3.99/item
4) UNLIMITED commercial-free, instant streaming of 5,000 movies and TV shows for FREE
All this for $79/year… compared to Netflix at $7.99/month for just free unlimited streaming, the Amazon Prime Membership is seemingly a steal of a deal at $16.88 less a year than Netflix with the additional shipping benefits. I’m not sure how to really compare the two libraries, but glancing around the libraries seemed fairly compatible.
Check out what Jeremy and Greg at LIVEdigitally have to say about the new competition for Netflix.
Group coupon startups beware… be careful who you partner with when releasing coupons. In Groupon’s first major misstep (leaving aside the horrible Super Bowl ad), Groupon partnered with the nationwide FTP florist to provide $40 worth of flowers for $20. Once shoppers clicked through the deal, the shoppers found out the prices offered through the Groupon deal were more than if you went to the site not through the deal.
FTD blamed the problem with the Groupon on the fact that the Groupon’s were for non-discounted items. In the flower world, Valentine’s Day is equal to a toy store’s Christmas season so FTD’s site was filled with discounts. In an attempt to save face, FTD credited the difference between the retail price and the sale price to the accounts of people who bought the sale items through Groupon while Groupon updated the deal to reflect lower prices.
In this Geek’s humble opinion, the Groupon did not feel right so I did not buy. Why? There were red flags posted saying you must click through Groupon’s link to the FTD site. Additionally, the Groupon was for retail prices which is another trick I’ve seen from the likes of Michael’s employ with their coupons (50% off any 1 items not currently on sale, but every item in the store is already on sale!). It sure felt like FTD was trying to pull one over here and got caught having to do what they should have done in the first place.
Let me kick off this article with the executive summary: if you have a Google account and a phone, enable 2-step verification on your account right away.
Google recently rolled out much improved security for its user accounts in the way of 2-step verification. What this means is that your account would no longer be protected by only a password, but also something which you should physically have, in this case your phone (mobile or landline). …
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