I’ve always known that Apple’s monopoly on the hardware side of things accounted for the higher price of Mac computers when compared to Windows. Today I got a real glimpse into what that actually means long-term. If you follow me on Twitter, you know that earlier in the week, the display on my Macbook Pro…
At least it seems to have survived thanks to a new buyer. Details are non-existent right now, as with the Bloglines news, but it will be interesting to see what the new owners have in store for Xmarks users. Personally, I’ve rather been enjoying Firefox Sync, so I’m going to hold off on switching back…
Apparently, Ask.com got Merchant Circle to agree to take over the operations of Bloglines. Maybe they will actually invest in it and create a god Google Reader alternative. Then again, I have no idea how Bloglines fits with what Merchant Circle does now, so we’ll see if this is a good thing for Bloglines users…
I went ahead and downloaded the latest update to Tweetdeck earlier on my laptop, and have been using it for a little bit. The “big” feature in this release is the support for user streams, which means tweets will show up even faster. Personally, I’m not in that big of a hurry, so I didn’t…
I’ve been working on an outline for a presentation I’m going to be doing to some records management folks later this month. I’m planning on helping them grasp some of the technical aspects of ediscovery, metadata, forensics, etc. I’ll probably do some hands-on with file recovery tools, Md5 hashes, and how copying or moving a…
Filing this under “you never stop learning new things”. Thanks to a post on one of the ILTA eGroups, I discovered a neat little trick that lets you use Outlook Web Access to recover deleted items that were “hard deleted” directly from the inbox and thus are not available using the normal Outlook Recover Deleted…