Archive for May, 2008
Filed under: Software, Freeware, Internet Tools
 Web Worker Daily’s got a nice tiny roundup of apps that grant you to share your clipboard between multiple personal. There’s tools for Windows, Mac and — most useful — cross-platform.
Also, as a user points out in the comments for the post, there’s cl1p.net, a web-based tool that lets you cut-and-paste and share text, files, images and URLs. It’s even iPhone ready, which is nice, considering nobody seems to want to put an actual clipboard on the darn thing.
These are all cool tools…but personally, if I need to copy text from one machine to another, I just email it to myself. How about you? Got any other simple tips for moving content across machines?
[via Lifehacker]
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Roberto Galoppini suggests that there may be a new way to get paid for the distribution of open-source software. Multi-level marketing. Have you heard of it?
Well, I have. I’m from Utah, after all, the MLM capital of the universe. I hate the very idea behind MLM, but I agree with Roberto that there’s potentially something in this:
…[I]t isn’t uncommon to see users - read potential customers - spent a lot of time (therefore money) instead of buying commercial open source products and services. Someone, somewhere in the IT department, knows how much time spends to make things work.
… Source:The Open Road
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Filed under: Deals, Top deals, Rumors, Financials and analyticals, Private equity industry, Public or private?
BCE, Inc. (NYSE: BCE) is one of the large multi-billion dollar pending mergers that’s on hold and is caught in the middle of a fight. Its merger has been on the books for almost a year and its ultimate fate isn’t know.
But because of all the speculation in this with a defined legal fight currently underway, and combined with the post Clear Channel Communications (NYSE: CCU) merger terms having changed, this one is uncertain. But….
We’ve seen a leveraged trading in the stock options activity today that threw up a massive giant red flag. There were more than 20,000 options contracts that have traded today that looks like a straddle play in the June options.
You can read the full story at Volume Spike (VSinvestor.com) to see in-depth options analysis, where we think this stock has to go, and more detailed data on the BCE, Inc. legal fight.
Jon C. Ogg
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Roberto Galoppini suggests that there might be a new way to get paid for the distribution of open-source software. Multi-level marketing. Have you heard of it?
Well, I’ve. I’m from Utah, after all, the MLM capital of the universe. I hate the very idea behind MLM, but I agree with Roberto that there’s potentially something in this:
…[I]t isn’t unusual to see users - read potential customers - spent a lot of time (therefore money) instead of buying commercial open source products and services. Someone, somewhere in the IT department, knows how much time spends to make things work.
… Source:The Open Road
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Open source is such a natural for government agencies, it should come as no surprise that NASA is now developing an open-source project called CosmosCode. The goal? “To provide a common access point for individuals, academics, companies, and space agencies around the world using, contributing to, or supporting re-usable, modular, …
Source:The Open Road
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Fabrizio takes Google to task for its “Johnny One Note” approach to mobile: To the man with a hammer (Browser-based advertising model), everything looks like a nail (Browser). But he also points to how Google can extend its desktop web search dominance to mobile:
…[F]or Google to dominate in mobile, they’ve to find a way to dominate in messaging (not in browsing). Gmail isn’t the way….The Google of Mobile will come from mobile messaging [SMS, texting, email, IM, social communications], ad-based.
I wonder….Given that we’re preconditioned to pay for services on our mobile devices, couldn’t Google also explore a baked-in monthly subscription fee that the carrier embeds in one’s wireless plan? Something that users pay for in the same way we pay scads of taxes each month without knowing precisely why?
Perhaps. But as the desktop has shown, given the choice between a good enough free service and a packaged and paid-for service, good enough and free is going to win out.
… Source:The Open Road
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Alas! The terrible things they’re teaching my kids in schools these days, probably funded by Microsoft’s OnMyWay program!
I went to visit my son’s class today, and discovered that they’d been submitting proposals for patents, their teachers clearly no fans of innovation…. 
 (Credit: Matt Asay)… Source:The Open Road
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Filed under: OS, Internet, Internet Tools, Software Update
 If you have an iPhone synced with Address Book.app, then you’ve been able to sync your contacts with Yahoo for a while now, but something that has been missing is Google sync. Sure, you can always use Spanning Sync, but we all want something free and built-into the OS. Well, those dreams are now true according to a new Google blog post and the introduction of Mac OS X 10.5.3.
On the Mac you normally sync your iPhone with, you will see a new option when you open the “General” tab in Address Book preferences. When you check “Synchronize with Google” you can enter your Google credentials and syncing will proceed. Apple and Google did leave some people out, however, as this new feature works only on Macs that have an iPhone synced with iTunes.
Thanks, Nathan and Ryan!
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Alas! The terrible things they’re teaching my kids in schools these days, probably funded by Microsoft’s OnMyWay program!
I went to visit my son’s class this day, and discovered that they had been submitting proposals for patents, their instructors clearly no fans of innovation….
(Credit: Matt Asay)
… Source:The Open Road
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