tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86846008850772041222011-11-27T19:33:05.269-05:00In the vast ebbing and flowing sea of tech news, Tech Buoy marks the spot of can't miss new technologies and trends. It's the tech world from the eyes of an IT pro and self proclaimed tech nerd.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11037859071411301896noreply@blogger.comBlogger471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684600885077204122.post-18489091415321694292010-04-04T22:34:00.014-04:002010-04-05T08:33:40.347-04:00

To save the impatient types some trouble, here’s my TL;DR. After less than 36 hours of ownership, my iPad has been sold on Craigslist. Why you ask? I wish that were a simple answer. I wish I could easily say I loved or hated it. Rather than give my two cents on polarizing issues such as hardware choice, OS choice, and Flash support I want to focus on my real world experience with the actual

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Gizmodo has a piece on Microsoft's latest secret project, the Courier. While everyone is waiting for Apple to produce a tablet to be used with their latest OS Microsoft has been working with third party developers and consultants to produce something very different from what we have seen in the past.The Courier has two 7 inch screens side by side that are capable of multitouch and pen input. It

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Google has upgraded their traffic reporting service within Google Maps to include real time data from real people stuck in the rat race. If you have Google Maps open on your iPhone or Andriod device your heading and speed can be sent to big Google Maps brother. It aggregates this data from little minions all around the US and is supposedly is very effective. It even collects data on secondary

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It appears Google has apparently "Apple'd it up" in regards to the Skype application on Andriod. According to this article from USA today Skype's full blown application has been denied on the Andriod platform. Users are made to use Skype Lite which essentially connects the call via the traditional phone network and soaks up cell minutes. I don't have an Andriod device to test this with but it's

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Andy Kessler of the Wall Street Journal has an excellent summary and commentary on recent events between Google and Apple. I agree with most of his views. It's time to change the way we think about communications (basically there is no such thing as voice, cable tv, text messages, etc because it's all just data) rather than try to cling on to the old way of doing things.It is a very good read (

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The biggest problem when polling people about their favorite search engine is preconceived notions about their effectiveness. You think Google is the best because that's all you have ever used and you generally don't like Microsoft. Alternatively you love Yahoo Search since it's your portal page to everything else you use (mail, stocks, weather, news, etc). You don't really give other search

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Google is facing stiffer competition these days due to Microsoft's intense marketing campaign for their new Bing search engine. Apparently while everyone is having Bing jammed down their throats Google has been working furiously on a new version of their search engine. They recently released an alpha/beta/preview whatever you want to call it to the general public so anybody can check it out. On

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Here is a useful tool I found for scouring Craigslist. If you live in New England you know the pain of trying to search every region in Craigslist from Connecticut to Maine. Crazedlist.org lets you select any number of regions to search on and aggregates the results in one massive list. They even have predefined search areas in a drop down menu (one of which is New England, sweet). Crazedlist

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Just a quick blurb today since I don't have a lot of free time this week. A co-worker brought this to my attention. It's an app called Echo and it's only for Windows Vista. On the surface it behaves much like Pandora, you put in an artist and it plays songs from that artist and other artist in the same genre. The difference is that it looks pretty when you have Aero enabled.Check it out over at

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I'd like to share a site I found yesterday that provides a really cool service. GrooveShark is a Pandora-like music service in that you enter an artist, song or album you want to hear. Where it differs though is that it actually plays the what you put in, not just songs like it. GrooveShark will play entire albums and you can create playlists of all kinds of different music. It's kind of like

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Love it or hate it Amazon's Kindle has been in a one horse race since it's debut in November of 2007. Sure there are other eBook readers but none that integrate a bookstore that allows immediate wireless downloads. Now Barnes and Noble have thrown their hat in to the ring by launching their own eBook store. Even more interesting however is that they signed a deal with Plastic Logic who will

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I have a busy day today so I just want to make a quick commentary on the whole Apple denying the Google Voice application thing. I realize the fact that Apple probably has it written in to their developer agreements and TOS that they can reserve the right to deny or pull apps from the app store at any time for any reason. Not only did Apple deny the Google Voice application but they quickly

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Microsoft's Live Mesh platform is something even they have a hard time describing. They call it "a ’software-plus-services’ platform and experience from Microsoft that enables PCs and other devices to ‘come alive’ by making them aware of each other through the Internet..” Whoa.. What? I sure hope we aren't talking about Skynet here.Fortunately for us, in reality Live Mesh is far from a self

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I have been using Xmarks, formally known as Foxmarks for several months now. It is what allows me to realistically use multiple browsers on a day to day basis. Xmarks started out as a simple bookmark synchronization service for Firefox. After installing the plugin it copies your bookmarks to the Xmarks server. When you switch to another computer running the same plugin it syncs any bookmarks you

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I'd like to stop and take a moment to commend the work of the folks over at IE6update.com. They provide a simple Javascript snippet that web developers can put their site to detect Internet Explorer 6 and gently notify users that in order to be compatible with the content on the site that they need to update their browser. The way it does this however is generating a bit of controversy.IE6Update

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I love it when people come up with different ways to use new technology. That is if you still consider Twitter new... In any case, today's piece focuses on an application named TweetMyPC by a gentleman who goes by shobankr on Twitter. TweetMyPC essentially lets you send remote commands to your computer through Twitter. I know what your thinking and all I'll tell you is don't run this on any

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In the Google Wave developer blog, Google has announced that it will begin offering invitations to its beta Wave server in September. For more information on what Google Wave is, check out my previous post Google Wave - What You Need to Know. It is not yet clear how they will be handling invitations but I would put your name in to http://wave.google.com as soon as possible.

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PortableApps.com lets you take your apps with you on a USB memory stick. This means you can take mobile versions of your browser (Firefox), Notepad++ (great notepad replacement), and Pidgin (multi-IM client) to any computer you want to run them on. They are set up so that your preferences live on the memory stick with the apps. Nothing needs to be installed or kept on the computer you're running

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Have you wanted to check out Android, Google's mobile operating system but didn't want to make the switch to T-Mobile for the G1? I know I certainly wanted to check out Google's iPhone OS competitor. Google Andriod has been capable of running on x86 hardware (i.e. the computer at your desk) since its inception but there was no easy way to do so. Now a project named Live Android has taken the

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Today's TechBuoy entry isn't about a specific piece of hardware or software. It's about an emerging technology I think we will see more of in the next 5 years or so (hopefully sooner). Augmented Reality is the name of a new class of tech that combines mobile devices, cameras, GPS, compasses and any number of data sources to provide you with real time information pertinent to things you're looking

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I came across this today and had to share. It's Office 2010: The MovieEpic, simply epic...

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Google always has exciting new projects to play with in its Google Labs area. This comes as no surprise due to the shear amount of creativity and coding talent condensed in to their campus.I just discovered Google City Tours which is a great, creative use of the Google Maps API. All you do is put in where you are and it tells you the best sights to see, from historical landmarks to museums and

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Google has just introduced the Google Chrome Operating System. It is designed for use on small x86 (Netbooks) and ARM (smart phones and PDAs) devices. This is puzzling a lot of people since Google already has its Andriod OS already in production on smart phones. Andriod is very easily portable to the x86 platform and on the surface sounds like it can do what Google is intending for the Chrome OS.

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Hello Everyone,I'll be taking a short break from Tech Buoy this week as I'm traveling on business. Don't worry, I'll be back next week with updates a plenty. Stay tuned...Jeff

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How many times have you been crawling the web and come across a web page that has content you want but is so hard to read you give up and go elsewhere? It seems it doesn't matter if it's a little blog or a huge newspaper, any web site can be the victim of poor design. Let us use the illustrious New York Times website as an example. Here is what a typical nytimes.com article looks like.There is

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Why do people shell out $99 for a MobileMe account from Apple? I find it's usually because they don't know about free alternatives like Google Sync. Essentially Google Sync emulates a Microsoft ActiveSync server for your mobile device. It works for Windows Mobile, iPhone OS, Blackberry OS and anything else that supports ActiveSync. It will sync your Google Contacts and Calendar with your phone,

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Not too long ago Apple released the latest version of Safari, 4.0. Now Mozilla is preparing to unleash it's latest browser in to the fray, Firefox 3.5. With this release Mozilla appears to be catching up to the performance benchmarks and feature sets of the latest versions of Safari and Chrome. This is great news for Firefox fanboys (me) who live and die by their plugins and have been left in the

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Google Voice is big, no it's beyond big, it's huge. It has the potential to be a game changing technology. It takes everything you wish your current telco provider could do then adds stuff you didn't even know you wanted. It's slowly been coming out of it's shell since March and soon it will be available for everyone. The best part? It's F-R-E-E, free.I was lucky enough to get an invite through

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Love it or hate it, the iPhone 3GS is huge. Apple sold more than 1 million of them in the first 3 days of its existence. It's twice as fast, has MMS, a great (for a phone) camera, voice control and a few other good features but most people are passing over a fairly amazing new feature.The screen is virtually impervious to the oils on your finger tips. You can smear your oily fingers all over the

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Some of you may not know what a 10 foot user interface is. Put simply it is a user interface that can be used from 10 feet away (e.g. the distance between you and your TV). Your cable box has a 10 foot user interface though if it's anything like my Comcast cable box, it really stinks. Static menus displaying static content is so 1999. Boxee sets out to be the antithesis of this experience with

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Dan Cohen over at geardiary.com has made an extraordinary discovery regarding the DRM present in the Amazon Kindle eBook reader. It could be worse, but I don't see how. Essentially there is a set number times you can download a book that you have purchased and Amazon will not tell you what that number is (and they may not even know). If you have multiple devices like an iPhone and a Kindle it

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Here's a fun piece of web 2.0 for Friday. TweetPsych analyzes your tweet history and comes up with scores in various categories based on things you have tweeted about. Here is the blurb from their website."TweetPsych uses two linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets. The service analyzes your last 1000 tweets

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For those of you who use both OSX and Windows daily you probably get frustrated when you go to use a Mac feature on your Windows box only to realize it isn't there. Because my MacBook has a tiny display with a dismal 1280 x 800 native resolution I find myself using Exposé frequently, especially to get back to my desktop and the Finder (by pressing Shift+F3). Now you can have this functionality in

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Opera is the little web browser that could. Even though it only holds 1% (and that's rounding up) of the browser market share it has been around for 13 years. They have come along with additions to their web browser that we never thought we needed, gesture control and Bit Torrent support to name a couple. So with its latest offering, Unite, we are told that Opera is going to re-invent the

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Today I bring you a piece of software that I used over the weekend to preserve some old vinyl headed for the trash bin. It's called Spin it Again by Acoustica and it really simplifies the whole process of "ripping" your old LPs to a digital format. I was dreading the process of recording an entire record to wav, splitting up the tracks, converting them to mp3 and tagging them but Spin it Again

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This video is available over at Apple's website but for your convenience I found it on YouTube and embedded it here. It goes over the feature list mentioned in my previous post and shows off what the new interface elements and other minutiae look like.Enjoy...In my opinion the 3GS is a great device and behind the scenes it's a fairly big upgrade for the iPhone 3G. The faster processor looks like

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Among other more exciting news at Apple's WWDC, the availability of Safari 4 was announced. Like many people I asked myself, why should I care? I'm happy enough with Firefox on my Mac and PC.Lets take a closer look at some of Safari 4's main features.Cover FlowUsers of iTunes will immediately recognize the coverflow function. You can flip through your history in Safari and it shows previews of

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It seems I have an endless pile of reward cards in my wallet. Grocery stores, pharmacies, electronics retailers, pet stores, it seems practically every store has one. It's for good reason too, it allows them to track your spending habits and target coupons and advertising to individual customers. Privacy concerns aside, I find there is another reason to be concerned with these cards, the comfort

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Apple has just announced the iPhone 3.0Gs will be available on June 19th. Version 3.0 of the iPhone OS is available to current iPhone 3G and iPod Touch users (for $10) on June 17th.Here is a list of iPhone 3Gs features:2-3 times faster depending on the applicationBetter/Faster 3D support7.2 mb/sec support3.0 Megapixel autofocus cameraVGA 30fps video captureVoice dialing and voice control of iPod

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Last week I reviewed a few online backup solutions (see Keeping Your Data Safe In the Cloud) I had tried a few months ago. Before going any further I would like to mention that Carbonite's CEO contacted me with a few corrections he wanted to make regarding their service. Please check out the post for more info. Now, on to today's topic.I used to find it difficult to keep files I use daily basis

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I've been running this blog for about a week now and realized today that introducing myself would probably be a prudent thing to do. So, without further delay I give you my intro.Hello, my name is Jeff. I enjoy checking out new tech whether it be software, hardware, web based, personal or enterprise grade. I also work in the IT field for a prominent software company so I see new ideas and cool

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Can you say with confidence your data is safe? If your hard drive crashed or your house burned down would you be confident your financial information and pictures of your cat Fluffy are secure? In my field there are few things as certain as the fact that most people don't think about backing up their data until it is gone. People have come to me sobbing over files they have lost on their usb

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These days it's next to impossible to keep all of your social networks updated consistently. Our digital lives are fragmented across Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and countless other digital representations of our corporal selves (Rhett and Link's Internet Overdose Song comes to mind). There are a few tools out there that can send updates to various sites simultaneously but none seem to be

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Citrix Online, creators of GoToMeeting and GoToMyPC have released their latest product in Beta for all to see and use. It's called GoView and while it may not be the first product to do what it does, I'm hoping it will blow the competition out of the water. From what I've seen so far, it looks very promising.GoView captures every action you perform on your computer along with your voice from your

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Google announced yesterday on it's official blog that they now support .docx and .xlsx extensions. If you're like me, you're probably wonder how it fairs when converting Microsoft docs in to Google form. Here are a few screen shots of my tests...Complex form (Word 2007 on the left, Google Docs on the right)Document with inline images. (Word 2007 on the left, Google Docs on the right)As you can

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I would like to start with a quote from Google's official unofficial blog about Microsoft's Live Search. I found it to be humorous and informative at the same time."[Live Search] didn't manage to become successful, despite of its many improvements, rebrandings and promotions. Nielsen reported that Live Search's US market share in the US was 9.9%, while Hitwise reported that the most commonly

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You may have seen the twitterverse ablaze with Google Wave mentions. So much so that it has been a trending topic since Lars and Jens Rasmussen showed a tech preview at the Google I/O event recently. But what is Google Wave really? What does it mean to you and me? What will you need to know so you don't get washed away by the tide when your friends invite you to their wave?Google Wave is "the

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