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CIO.com’s Esther Schindler recommends the perfect way to boost a career: Get involved in an open-source project:

Sometimes, there isn’t much you can do to kick-start your career. Not everyone can be lucky enough to get involved in a high-profile project at work, or to develop a

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Filed under: Software, Internet Tools

TUAW reader Vinod tipped us off to GDocsUploader, a small application for drag-and-drop uploading of Office documents to Google Docs. It’s a wrapper around a Python implementation of the Google Documents List Data API. The API, which is limited primarily to uploading and searching, has been around for a while now, but we haven’t seen too many Mac applications make use of it.

This app is simple, open source and duly small. A notable drawback of GDocsUploader is its use of AppleScript keychain scripting, which is notoriously slow and not altogether reliable (might I advocate something more usable?). It also gets a little sketchy with reporting transfer results, but that could possibly be an issue on the Google side. Overall, once you get through the first round of Keychain-doesn’t-like-AppleScript (or was it vice-versa?) problems, it’s a great little drop-point for getting Google its docs. Grab it at Google Code.

Thanks, Vinod!

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Filed under: Software, Video, Internet Tools

Just last week we noted that BusySync 2, which adds Google calendar syncing to the iCal sync app, is now shipping. Another 2.0 would seem to be around the corner, as a post on the SpanningSync blog shows a video demo of Address Book -> Google contact synchronization coming in the next version of the utility.

While Plaxo and other tools are lining up to take on the contact sync challenge — most sync only in one direction right now, even though with the Google contacts API in play that’s going to change — it’s nice to see SpanningSync picking up the torch on contacts as the competition on calendaring heats up.

[via ars technica]

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Filed under: The Blackstone Group, Financials and analyticals, The Carlyle Group, Permira, Private equity industry, Value and lack thereof, Public or private?

Freescale is the old chip giant that was acquired by a private equity group led by The Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX), The Carlyle Group, and Permira Advisers. Prior to being public, this was a unit of Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT).

The company still has to report earnings as though it was a public company because of its ratings and because of its public debt. The company has shown that over the last twelve months, the company’s adjusted EBITDA was $1.55 billion.

Net sales for Q1-2008 were $1.405 billion, up from $1.361 Billion in Q1-2007 and down from $1,539 billion in Q4-2007. Unfortunately, the company is still posting an operating loss of $152 million for the quarter, compared to $654 million in operating losses in Q1-2007 and $595 million in Q4-2007. The net loss after items for this last quarter was $245 million, also down from a loss of $539 million in Q1-2007 and down from a loss of $525 million in Q4-2007.

Its cash and total short term investments were $1.25 billion on March 28, 2008, compared to $751 million at the fourth quarter ending December 31, 2007; and its accounts receivable were $680 million and inventory was $732 million. But here is where things get tricky. Its long-term debt is $over $9.3 billion alone. Of the company’s total asset base of $15.197 billion, more than $5.3 billion is goodwill and more than $3.6 billion was listed as intangible assets.

If you go back to the BloggingBuyouts article, “Why private equity firms avoid technology companies,” you’ll see that being a highly leveraged technology company that requires high capital expenditures isn’t always the greatest place to be be. Unfortunately for all the private equity partnersm the company can’t live on EBITDA alone and many believe that Freescale will need more capital and thus more leverage.

The original private equity deal was put at $17.6 billion for an enterprise value. So far that isn’t turning out too great. Who knows, maybe a re-IPO of Freescale isn’t too far off.

Jon Ogg is a producer and editor of the Special Situation newsletter for 247WallSt.com.

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Filed under: Freeware, Internet Tools, Open Source

Vidalia is a cross-platform GUI for the Tor network, which makes it very simple to anonymize your Mac’s TCP activity. The Tor project (which we posted about a long time ago) is a volunteer network designed to foil traffic analysis and thus grant you to cover your tracks on the internet. Basically it bounces your network requests across a number of Tor computers (and back again) so that nobody is able to figure out your actual destination.

This is obviously useful for keeping your identity secret, but it may also allow you to access IP addresses and services that your local network administrator blocks. Now you should think carefully about trying to circumvent such restrictions, as bad things may happen to you if it’s discovered. The other large downside is speed. Needless to state if you’re bouncing around personal all over the globe before you get to your destination there’s going to be some lag. Nonetheless, if you need the anonymity (or if the people you’re communicating with need it — think journalists or whistleblowers) it might be worth it. You may also like to contribute your own personal as a node to help out the network.

Vidalia is open source and a free download. The latest package is marked for Tiger, but it seems to work on Leopard as well. If you’re having trouble getting it from the Vidalia project page you can also download it from the Tor project download page. Once you download it, be sure to carefully follow the instructions in the Installation Guide for OS X.

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Filed under: Internet Tools, Apple, iPhone

The one feature that most of us iPhone owners want is native instant messaging. With the upcoming SDK release, instant messaging apps will most likely not be able to run in the background (in other words, they might not receive messages when the phone is sleeping or doing other things). However, AppleInsider is reporting on an Apple patent for instant messaging on the iPhone that was filed in August of last year, but just granted in March of this year.

The drawing included with the patent filing looks identical to the SMS application on the iPhone, with some key differences, one of which is word recommendations that appear as bubbles above the keyboard. AppleInsider also reports that this service could be used as a alternative for MMS (multi media messaging) which the current iPhone is lacking.

You can read the full patent filing on the USPTO’s website.

[via AppleInsider]

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