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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Google Considers Expanding Online Storage
Rumors of a virtual hard drive from Google may not have been exaggerated after all.
In an effort to move more user data into the Internet "cloud," Google is close to releasing a storage service that would let users move their digital data onto Google's servers, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal Nov. 27.
The Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, claims Google is finishing up a service that would let users store word-processing documents, digital music, video clips and photos on the Mountain View, Calif., company's servers.
With this cloud approach, users could access their data, ideally through a Google search box, from multiple computers and handheld devices with a password, breaking the traditional computing barriers of allowing users to access their data only from their machines.
The cloud concept took flight roughly five years ago with SAAS (software as a service) provider Salesforce.com, which delivers applications to customers through the Internet, and Amazon.com, which has been offering servers and storage services through the Web.
Google declined to confirm the Journal report, but a spokesperson told eWEEK, "Cloud computing is going mainstream. The apps people use every day, such as e-mail, photo sharing and word processing, are moving to the Web because it's easier to share and access your data from anywhere when it's online in one place."
Google, whose Apps offering is Internet based, already offers free and paid online storage for its Gmail Web mail client and Picasa Web Albums software. Paid storage options for Google Docs are forthcoming.
For Google, moving customer files onto its servers would likely cause consternation among privacy advocates. It would also put the company in greater competition with Microsoft, which is also working on an online file storing service called Live Folders, and traditional storage companies such as EMC, which
Assuming Google hurdles the challenge of allowing users' data to be accessed anywhere, anytime via a password, privacy and security stand out as major concerns. If Google opts to place ads alongside the data in the cloud, will consumers still use the service?
Will Google encrypt users' data, and who will manage the encryption keys? What if the cloud goes down and people can't access their files? What if Google can't figure out how to help people access their online files offline?
Gilbane Group analyst Geoff Bock said if Google creates an online backup service, it will be thrust into competition with EMC and others who have been practicing storage for years. However, Google lacks the expertise EMC does in information management, such as backup, recovery and archiving.
If Google offers online storage to supplement users' desktop environments, the company will need to do a lot more than implement a file system in the cloud.
Google, Bock said, must essentially create Microsoft "Sharepoint in the cloud," a collaborative Web environment that paves the way for ad-hoc information sharing among work groups. This is a complemented piece of software, which could ultimately lead people to work in the cloud and on their desktop or handheld devices.
"I think it's an idea whose time has come, but I think Google is getting into a very sticky area where success is not assured," Bock told eWEEK.
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Thursday, May 17, 2007
How to prevent rice worms
How to remove odours from your food container?
- Fills the container with plain water
- Adds salt into water, the shakes it for few minutes
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Home-Made Beef Burger
Ingredients A:
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- 1 bun
- 1 egg
- 4 slices tomato
- 4 slices cucumber/pickled cucumber
- 1 piece iceberg lettuce, optionally chopped
- 1 slice cheese
- mustard sauce
- tomato sauce
- salted butter
Ingredients B:
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- 100g minced beef (taste better n juicier if you minced yourself)
- 1/2 yellow onion, chopped into very fine pieces
- Lea sauce/Worcestershire sauce to taste
- honey mustard marinate sauce to taste
- oregano leaves to taste
- basil leaves to taste
- black pepper to taste
- salt to taste
Instructions:
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- Mix Ingredients B in a bowl and form it into patty. Optionally you can put into freezer overnight so as the chopped onions become softer after frost/defrost.
- Melt the butter in a pan, then fried the egg.
- Put the cheese on top of the fried egg.
- Melt the butter in the used pan, then pan fried the burger both side until done. Optionally you can put the 20~30% done burger on a grill pan or oven so as it will not be so oily and better taste
- Put the burger on top of the cheese. The cheese will melt due to the heat from burger and fried egg.
- Add all ingredients together into a burger.
How to remove odours from your refrigerator
- Don't throw away expired milk. Let it open and put inside the refrigerator until all the odour gone.
- Don't throw away squeezed lemon or orange. Leave it inside the refrigerator until all the odour gone.
By doing either one of the above mentioned methods, your refrigerator will smell fresh again.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
How to wake up your the other half in the morning?
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Note: Read from the magazine. Never try though. Maybe will ask my wife to try this method on me ;p
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Thursday, May 3, 2007
Vista Tip: Compatibility Files
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To keep legacy apps running, Vista lets them pretend to write to their familiar file locations—often under their installation folder in \Program Files or in \Windows itself. INI files, data files, templates, or even music might wind up there.
But when you go to look for those files, you won't find them! Vista actually stores the files in a "Virtual Store" under the AppData store in your user folder. Fortunately, you don't need to hunt around for the files, just turn on "Compatibility Files" in Explorer. When you browse to a folder that has these hidden files, you'll see a Compatibility Files toolbar button. Clicking it will show the virtual files for that folder. Keep in mind, though, that the files won't show up in Open and Save dialogs.
[/QUOTE]http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=206567,00.asp