Of all the computer software and applications that I use Dropbox stands out for me. It solves a lot of little headaches when it comes to storage and is so easy to use. Instead of having to transfer files onto a flash drive or burn a cd or however it is you traditionally moved data this thing solves every problem. I have it installed on my home pc, my office pc and my laptop. All I have to do is drop whatever files I want to share between my computers into the box that sits conveniently in the tray. This thing seriously made so many headaches go away. It’s great to see that 1 million people are now using the service because I know the development team put in a lot of work to make this happen. This isn’t a shameless plug instead this is something that I use on a regular basis and I am happy to tell everyone about it. 

If you want to sign up for the service and see what it’s all about just click here.

I think you get extra storage if you follow that link as well. I get a bonus for the referral too but I actually have plenty of space. (Although a little more never hurts) Anyways I just thought I would share because I know this is an app that you might not have thought existed and once you try it you just kick yourself wishing you had it 15 years ago.

https://www.getdropbox.com/help

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Tired of getting even the slightest amount of exercise?

Tired of that bothersome thing some call the outdoors?

Then we have the perfect thing for your lazy American tushy – The Automower

It almost sounds like some weird invention from the 50’s that was dreamed up but never quite caught on. Remember flying cars? Well they put wings on them but I guess 2 tons of steel wasn’t exactly taking off…

Anyways check out this story if you don’t like wasting energy doing things like getting off your couch.

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Ok that’s enough Twitter for today. Anyways the service is seeing rapid growth as has been reported much about this past year and even more so with the recent celebrity endorsements from AK and O.

Here are some stories about what has been going on with all things Twitter.

The ups:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/24/twitter-eats-world-global-visitors-shoot-up-to-19-million/

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/20/dora-merges-three-hot-web-services-pandora-twitter-and-bitly/

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/20/twitter-is-poised-to-double-its-monthly-traffic-once-again/

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/20/how-many-new-twitter-users-post-oprah-a-lot-maybe-over-a-million/

The downs:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/23/latest-twitter-bug-misdelivery-of-direct-messages/

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/23/china-blocks-micro-messaging-site-plurk-is-twitter-next/

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/22/twitter-oauth-temporarily-disabled-leaves-developers-hanging/

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I was thinking about why newspapers are dying off quicker than the dinosaurs and I was trying to think what meteor caused the collapse. It’s strange to think that technology can actually lead to the death of an industry but if you look around we have examples all over of this happening. For instance look at the music industry. In the United States they put a stranglehold on the means of production and distribution. Basically the only way to make it as a musician meant signing your life away and many artists did it. Even today most musicians only receive a tiny portion of the actual sales of their albums and that’s if they are lucky enough to be super famous. Most musicians don’t make a penny. Then the digital age came along and musicians now had the means to produce their own music and digitally distribute it across the internet. This actually allowed for global distribution which even the record industry could not achieve. So what did the record industry do to react to this new trend? Flex its muscles and try to kill off competition. Even with all that muscle, it’s still dying a slow death. You see with no competition it became weak. Startups made a better product. You could download music from Napster before the record industry had even thought of having websites. Whose fault is it they didn’t adapt? The same can be said of the car industry and monopolies here in America.

What about the newspaper?

It just got too slow. Whether you argue that newspapers held a regional monopoly or however you look at it newspapers just got slow. Sure they scrambled at the last minute to get on the web and I guess they tried their best to adapt but the problem was simply speed. You could get news stories faster and in better quality on the web. You could watch video and see full color pictures and there was no limit on the internet whereas paper is just paper no matter how you fold it. Simply put something bigger and better came along. Just as the printing press was perhaps the greatest invention of its time something bigger and better came to do the job. We can look back nostalgically but that’s not going to change things. There have been so many great inventions throughout history and herstory but when something becomes obsolete that’s just the way things go.

By the way that’s a great movie.

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Ok I consider myself to be rather knowledgeable when it comes to computers. It’s not that I started out some computer expert, instead it’s been sort of a love hate relationship where I hate it when something goes wrong and I would scour the internets looking for a solution. I guess the love part is that I do love it when my computer is running smoothly. Even to this day I am just amazed at what modern computers can do.

I was doing a little research the other day about the Cray 2 supercomputer. Seymour Cray is a native of our area and it’s funny to think that an area like Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls Wisconsin was once the technology capital of the world. We are still considered to have a good tech community. What is also funny is that the office computer that I am using to type this is faster than the Cray 2 which was the fastest computer on the planet when it was built. Long story short we have come a long way with computers.

When you put things into perspective it becomes especially disheartening when these machines break down. For the past few weeks this office machine has been acting a bit strange. I built it myself when I first started working here. I handpicked all the parts. It’s not the fastest machine on the planet but its pretty much overkill for an office computer. I guess that’s just the way I roll. But for some reason even with 4 GB of pretty fast memory it’s as if something was eating up all the memory. I am very good at troubleshooting but I just couldn’t pin point this problem because as it was occurring I was basically locked out. Whatever it was had been consuming so many resources that even if I hit ctr alt del the computer I was locked out. I couldn’t even see what was using all the resources. But I knew something was causing the computer to basically go into overdrive because I could hear it struggling and churning as if I was running something very intensive. I could also hear the hard drive going nuts so I knew something was making the hard drive read fast. My first thought was uh oh virus but then I began to wonder if it was a defragging program. But it wasn’t either and then something clicked in my head. What if it was Windows indexer out of control? I don’t normally index my files because I learned that even if you index your files “for faster searching” as Microsoft claims it doesn’t really speed anything up. In fact it seems to have been doing the opposite.

If your computer sounds like this and you think its indexing files let’s turn this crap off. I don’t feel like writing a full tutorial on how to turn this off especially when so many others have done this before so just go here for full instructions. They are virtually the same for Windows Vista.  

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Last night was a first as it goes with firsts on Twitter as Ashton Kutcher becomes the first person to get 1 million followers. Although that doesn’t mean a lot to many people but it was interesting in that he was offering to help out a good cause with the fight against malaria. He also promised to punk Ted Turner if he beat CNN in the race to a million. 

But there is more to this story than a meaningless race because Twitter is seriously considering getting rid of the public display of followers. The basic argument for this is quality over quantity and who cares if celebrities can get a million followers. There is no way you can actually listen to the conversation of 1 million people tweeting and that’s where Twitter starts to lose focus. With lower quality and people racing to get more and more followers the whole thing becomes meaningless. Many months ago I wrote quite a few posts saying how I really don’t care about getting more followers. I guess its fun to get the numbers up and I admit I played the game here and there to get more people to follow but what does it really mean? More numbers certainly adds leverage to getting even more numbers but for my business it doesn’t really add anything to the bottom line. People ask all the time what’s the big deal about Twitter and that’s a good question. If it’s merely to collect sheep and you aren’t being paid to be a shepherd then there is no point.

But for the heck of it I tried to be the millionth person to follow him. I managed to see number 999,997 and that’s when I pressed the follow button. I also had a Firefox window open and pressed it there too. There was a huge glitch at the time and the profile kept going down. When it came back up the number was 1,000,060 or so. I then looked and realized it had not counted my follow. So instead of being entered in the contest it was as if I had not pressed the button. But what really sucks was that on my screen it showed a successful follow. I actually had a very good chance of winning. I know I pressed it and was within 5 spots of it up or down. But because of the overload on the server who knows what the real numbers were and obviously it could not handle the traffic. But I figured if I had won it was my 15 seconds of fame or however that goes and without being famous you probably are not going to get any sort of cult following on Twitter.

I was happy to hit 100 last night and yet only about 3 people following me are actually from my city. I guess for an actual sphere of influence in relation to real estate I should stick to Facebook but for tech writing I get a lot of people looking at what I do. I do enjoy working on tech related issues and whether I ever get paid to do that remains to be seen.

For now I think Twitter has a serious dilemma, either make the network higher quality and risk lower membership (after all they are seeing huge numbers because of the hype) or just keep it the same and Twitter for the masses remains much of a one sided relationship where you follow whoever but they might not care to hear what you have to say.

Maybe the news that Oprah is endorsing Twitter will bring it even more mainstream. Well of course that’s what will happen. A huge wave of her fans will now want easy SMS phones and Tweeting will become synonymous with her book club and O magazine.

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Imagine having 1 million twittering screaming fans following your every move! Well tonight makes history as I get 1 million followers on Twitter. Well it’s not me it looks like it’s going to be Ashton Kutcher actually. I thought I might stay up a few more minutes and watch. He is at about 992,000 and he seems to be going up about a thousand every few minutes. Ok now I checked and it says he has 1,983,960. There seems to be a problem. Anyways it’s interesting considering that Twitter might remove the following stats.

You can follow me on Twitter. I just got 100 followers. Big deal right?

PS it looks to be back to above 992,000.

http://twitter.com/search/users?q=kutcher&category=people&source=find_on_twitter

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Ok this is just great. Now we lucky tax payers get to pay the 10 largest paper companies $8 Billion to waste diesel fuel in a completely unnecessary process. I mean completely unnecessary as in they are just doing this step so that they can get the money. There shouldn’t be a loophole here to begin with and if anything this should be criminal. How can stealing $8 Billion not be stealing? Oh wait I forget it’s not stealing when its millions or billions of dollars while our prisons and jails are filled with people who have stolen less than one hundred dollars. Not only should these companies not get a cent for any reason since the land that they use to cut down the trees for the paper is stolen for the most part and I just don’t see why a large corporation should be getting taxpayer money for any reason. I am sick and tired of seeing companies get bailouts while the smaller businesses that they decimate get nothing. I am just sick of corporate America and sick of their influence over politics. It’s time to give the boot to these companies once and for all.

Anyways if you want to read more about how these companies are stealing your tax dollars go here.

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There has been a lot of news today about the virus that was being sent around Twitter. I guess news spreads as quick as viruses on a social network. According to Tech Crunch Twitter has fixed the issue. I saw another post on Slashdot that linked to this story which says the owner of Stalk Daily created the virus out of boredom. Apparently his defense for doing this was that his site is a great site so what does it matter if he forces people to go there against their wills. I normally suggest joining as many social networks as you can but I would think security would be an obvious issue as anyone who thinks so little of security probably would have no qualms about getting paid for the email or password list for their website. In fact I would highly advise against giving this guy any more business or even associating with his network.

Tech Crunch says the owner of the site had nothing to do with the incident and I am not sure at this point who is to blame but I do find it odd that the worm sends people to a specific place and that site claims it has nothing to do with it.

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