Oct 28

Egnyte Launches Public Beta- New Content Sharing Service

Posted in: Today's Chili, Web Sites

This article was written on May 01, 2007 by CyberNet.

Recently, a new content sharing service called Egnyte launched their public beta, and their file management system is great for personal or business use.

To use Egnyte, you’ll have to install an uploader first.  What’s nice about this is that it supports both Windows and Macs.  From there, you can select the folders (activate) on your computer that you will want to upload to your Egnyte workspace.

Anything that you upload is tagged so that it makes for easy searching later on.  The uploader works with Outlook, Thunderbird, Gmail and POP enabled email accounts if you want to back them up.

Egnyte allows you to designate the files, folders, or emails you want others to see. You designate these files by placing them into a “view” and then people can be invited in to see the view.

Egnyte

Another nice feature is the continuous synchronization which automatically synchronizes the files that you have selected. Any time you make a change to an activated file, it will get updated on your workspace This means it’s one less thing for you to worry about, and your important information is always being backed-up. At any point, you can export the data that you’ve got stored to any computer.

The free version available to everybody allows 1GB of storage.  They also have plans available for corporate work space, however it seems highly over-priced. For example, a corporate account is $30 per month but the user is capped at 30 GB of storage. I wouldn’t say that a corporate account is worth it,  but a free account is definitely worth a try, especially if you’re working on a group project that frequently gets modified. It’s also a great solution for backing up your email.

Sign up for Egnyte

Thanks for the tip Chris!

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Oct 28

Is The Fox Really A Fox In Firefox?

Posted in: Today's Chili, Web Sites

This article was written on July 27, 2006 by CyberNet.

Firefox
If you read CyberNet News, you’ve most definitely heard of Firefox, the web browser. We like it, and our readers seem to like it. So aside from all of the releases, and extensions, have you ever put much thought into the logo? At first glance, you probably think it’s a fox, on fire around a globe, right? That was my first thought, however, is that what is really pictured?

Red Panda

Firefox’s official name and logo ins’t a Fox, it’s a ‘Red Panda.’ Surprised? Literally translated, The Red Panda in Latin is ‘fire-colored cat.’ The Chinese name for Red Panda is ??? which means small panda. It was originally classified in the raccoon family, however now experts are classifying it as being a member of the bear family.

At spreadfirefox.com,they mentioned adopting a red panda at a zoo and putting up a poster that said something like ‘this exhibit sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation, developers of the popular open source Firefox web browser.’ Afterall, they have borrowed the name.

So while what’s pictured on the logo really is a fox with its’ tail on fire, it should be a Red Panda pictured which literally translated means ‘firefox.’

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Oct 28

ITG xpPhone 2 to get some Windows 8 love, starts living large in January

Posted in: cellphone, mobile phone, MobilePhone, mobilepostcross, phone, qwerty, smartphone, Today's Chili, Windows, windows 7, windows 8, Windows7, Windows8

Let’s be honest: with the size of a brick and a relatively short battery life, it’s no surprise that ITG’s xpPhone hasn’t quite dominated the smartphone market since its launch back in November. In fact, we haven’t even seen one in the wild, and we certainly wouldn’t have missed it if there ever was one on the street. That said, ITG hasn’t given up, as the company’s just announced its second-generation Windows-powered smartphone. The reason? Well, interestingly enough, ITG prefers Windows’ greater range of compatible software compared to those of mobile OSes, namely Android and iOS. Let’s just leave it at that for now.

Simply dubbed the xpPhone 2, this beast of a QWERTY slider packs a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 chip, along with 2GB RAM, up to 112GB of SSD storage, 4.3-inch display and compatibility with both Windows 7 and Windows 8 — obviously the latter OS will depend on its final release date. Not only has battery life been bumped up to around 18 hours of call time or 46 days on standby, but the phone’s also been slimmed down to 140mm x 73mm x 17.5mm, which is a huge improvement compared to its bulky predecessor. With the touch-friendly Windows 8 on board along with a non-underclocked CPU, we have a feeling that the xpPhone 2 will at least fare much better than Fujitsu’s F-07C; as for the rest, we shall see when it comes out in January next year. And no, it probably won’t run Crysis.

Update: Looks like we were misled by the company’s other promotional photos and thus mistakenly thought the xpPhone 2 will have a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. This would explain the slimmer body then.

Gallery: ITG xpPhone 2

ITG xpPhone 2 to get some Windows 8 love, starts living large in January originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 28

Unlocked iPhone 4S Goes on Sale Across The World

Posted in: ipad, iphone 4s, Phones, Today's Chili

Unlocked, the iPhone 4S costs the same as the iPad 3G

The iPhone 4S begins its second international wave today, going on sale in much of Europe. And unlike the stateside iPhone 4S, this one can be had unlocked.

Customers in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland can now head to their favorite carrier and sign their lives away for the next year or two.

Here in Spain, the carrier deals aren’t bad (from around €35 per month with 1GB data that you can also share with an iPad using a free extra SIM), but the interesting part is the price of an unlocked iPhone, which starts at €600.

€600 is $850, and that’s for the 16GB model. It goes up in €100 step to top out at €800, or $1,133 for the 64GB model. For comparison, those are the exact same prices as the 3G iPad lineup, which will give you a rough guide to what the U.S prices will be when the unlocked phone goes on sale there, probably some time in November. Up in Canada, the unlocked prices run at $650/$50/$850 (thanks, Jon!), which should also let you see where things are headed.

I have a feeling that there may be another press release from Apple on Monday, announcing another few million units sold. If this damn rain will stop, I might just head over to the Apple store to check things out.

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Oct 28

Google Docs Goes Offline, Finally

Posted in: Google, Today's Chili

This article was written on April 01, 2008 by CyberNet.

Last November, Zoho announced that they were adding offline editing support to Zoho Writer using Google Gears. We mentioned how ironic it was that Zoho was using Google’s service (Google Gears) to make the offline editing support available, yet Google still wasn’t offering any type of offline editing or synchronization option for Google Docs. At last, Google has caught up to one of their competitors and they are now offering offline access for Google Docs.

Over the next few weeks, users of Google Docs will start to notice the offline capabilities added to their accounts. Of course just like Zoho, it is powered by Google Gears and users will be able to get access to their documents whether they have an Internet connection or not. When you make a change to a document while offline, the changes are then updated when you connect again, seamlessly. The announcement over at the Google Docs Blog points out how for now, offline access is only available for Docs and not Presentations or Spreadsheets. This leads us to question whether Zoho or Google will be the first to add offline support to their spreadsheet application?

Below is a video from the Google Docs team that explains how this all works:

All in all this is good news. Even Zoho commented about this and how Google’s announcement “illustrates the rapid progress being made in online applications, and how quickly they are emerging as viable competitors to the traditional desktop suites.” By traditional desktop suites, we’re sure they’ve got Microsoft Office in mind. Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho also commented that in this situation, ultimately users are the winners thanks to all of the competition, which is true.

Had Zoho not gone along and implemented the offline functionality first, would Google have pushed as hard as they did to make it available for Google Docs? Another question is what does this mean for Microsoft Office, if anything? We’re doubtful that people will completely stop using Microsoft Office, especially if they already own it in favor of Zoho or Google Docs. A more likely scenario is that users will have a use for both and will use Zoho or Google Docs for some things while using Microsoft Office for others.

There’s no doubt that Zoho and Google Docs are doing well for themselves and provide each other with a little healthy competition.

Note: If you need help figuring out how to bring your Google Docs offline, checkout the Google Docs Help Center.

Thanks for the tip Omar!

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Oct 28

Samsung Galaxy Note review

Posted in: Android, breaking news, BreakingNews, galaxy, gingerbread, Google, Ifa2011, mobilepostcross, review, samsung, sdk, smartphone, Smartphones, Today's Chili, video

Remember the display on your first mobile phone? If you’ve been chatting on the go for as long as we have, it was probably barely big enough to fit a complete telephone number — let alone a contact name or text message. And your first smartphone? Even displaying scaled-down, WAP versions of web pages was asking a lot. Now, those mobile devices we couldn’t live without have screens that are much, much larger. Sometimes, though, we secretly wish they were even bigger still.

Samsung’s new GT-N7000 Galaxy Note is the handset those dreams are made of — if you happen to share that dream about obnoxiously large smartphones, that is. It’s as thin as a Galaxy S II, lightning fast and its 5.3-inch HD Super AMOLED display is as gorgeous as it is enormous; the 1280 x 800 pixels you once could only get with a full-size laptop (or in the Galaxy Tab 10.1) can now slide comfortably into your front pocket. Its jumbo display makes it the perfect candidate for a notepad replacement and, with the included S Pen stylus, you’ll have no problem jotting notes on the fly, marking up screenshots or signing documents electronically. But, is that massive display too much of a good thing? You’ll need to jump past the break to find out.

Gallery: Samsung Galaxy Note review

Gallery: Samsung Galaxy Note vs. Galaxy S II

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Samsung Galaxy Note review originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 28

Video: ‘Siri, Pour Me a Beer’

Posted in: Hacks, Mods and DIY, Today's Chili

Beeri: ‘Pour’ a beer using Siri

The folks at RedPepper software might have scored more nerd points if they’d had Siri serve tea (Earl Grey, hot), but it’s hard to argue with a Rube Goldbergian machine that brings you a beer when you ask for it. Behold: Beeri.

Beeri is less of an app or device and more a convoluted process to bring beer to a lazy iPhone 4 owner. It works like this:

Tell Siri to “Text Tweet Beeri,” and include the word “pour” in the message body. This sends a text which is then turned into a tweet. Beeri, an Arduino based robot, sees the word “pour” and roars into action. A remote controlled truck with a can of beer pre-loaded speeds off down the table and rams into a spike at the far end, ripping open the can.

The freed beer pours through a hole in the table to a waiting glass beneath, from whence it can be supped.

It is ridiculous, messy and completely impractical. And it is also a sure indicator of many, many Siri-based projects to come.

Have Siri Pour You a Beer [RedPepper via ReadWriteWeb]


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Oct 28

IE 8 Will Not Follow Standards By Default

Posted in: Internet Explorer, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on January 22, 2008 by CyberNet.

Internet Explorer Superman The Internet Explorer team is at it again pointing out that Internet Explorer 8 is looking to closely follow the web standards we’ve all become accustomed to in other major browsers. Earlier they demonstrated that IE 8 currently passes the Acid 2 test, and the IE blog actually admitted their lacking of compliance with the standards in the past:

I’ve been on the IE team for over a decade, and I’ve seen us apply the “Don’t Break the Web” rule in six different major versions of IE in different ways. In IE 6, we used the DOCTYPE switch to enable different “modes” of behavior to protect compatibility. When we released IE 6 in 2001, very few pages on the web were in “standards mode” (my team ran a report on the top 200 web sites at the time that reported less than 1%) – few people knew what a DOCTYPE was, and few tools generated them.

By default Internet Explorer 8 will render sites the same way that IE 7 does, but there will also be a “super standard” rendering capability that developers can take advantage of. To make any particular website render with the standards-compliant engine developers will have to specify this META tag in the HEAD section of the site:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />

I think this is a good way for Microsoft to handle the issue of standards while maintaining maximum site compatibility, but I think this will give little motivation for non-standards sites to update their code. Is this the right route for Microsoft to go?

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Oct 28

Dark Sky Predicts the Exact Weather, One Hour Ahead

Posted in: apps, ipad, iPhone, Software and Operating Systems, Today's Chili

Dark Sky, an ‘accurate short-term weather predictor’

Dark Sky is a weather app that only tells you what will happen in the next hour, at most. What’s the point of that, you ask? Because by limiting itself to what will happen next, Dark Sky can be spookily accurate.

The app, by Adam Grossman and Jack Turner, analyses weather radar data and tells you exactly what is about to happen in the weather, exactly where you are. Thus you can see that you have five minutes before a downpour, giving you enough time to get to the corner store. And that the shower will last ten minutes, so you should buy a magazine while you’re at the store and wait it out.

This works because it’s way easier to tell which way a storm or weather system will move in the next half hour than it is to predict even tomorrow’s weather. And Dark Sky even looks good while it does it. The same algorithm that predicts the weather also interpolates the herky-jerky radar images into a smoothly animated picture of the weather. It’s kind of like an iTunes visualizer, only useful.

Adam and Jack are currently seeking finding on Kickstarter ($15 will pre-order you a copy), as the app backend requires lots of server power to crunch the radar data from the whole country. This also means that an international rollout might take a while. However, if you live in England I can offer you a very accurate prediction: If it is not raining right now, it will start in five minutes. You’re welcome.

Dark Sky project page [Kickstarter. Thanks, Adam!]

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Oct 28

CyberNotes: Performance-Friendly Desktop Search Applications

Posted in: CyberNotes, Features, Freeware, Software, Today's Chili, Windows

This article was written on August 19, 2008 by CyberNet.

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Searching for files on your computer was something that was once a tedious process, but in the last few years it has been one of the most talked about features in new operating systems. Sure you could always search for files on your computer, but do you remember when you’d have to sit there for several minutes while the computer scavenged everything on the hard drive looking for files and folders matching your search.

The benefit that search applications have these days is that they can index files on your computer so that search results are retrieved nearly instantaneously. Mac OS X 10.4 started doing this back in 2005 when Tiger it was released, and Vista followed it up with its own indexed search capabilities. Making search a strong focus of the operating system is a smart thing to do as it becomes harder and harder for users to find the files they are looking for. Without being able to search it can almost be like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

What about the other operating systems like XP? Many of you have probably turned to Google Desktop or Copernic to do your searching, but I believe both of those programs use more resources than they need to. They’re constantly monitoring and indexing results on your computer, and Google Desktop even comes bundled with their own gadget/widget system.

Today we’re going to take a look at two excellent applications that focus on quickly searching for files on your computer without the unnecessary bloat. Both of them are free, use very little memory, and aren’t constantly indexing files on your computer… although they do use an index/database for retrieving results. Sound nice?

–Locate32 (Homepage)–

This is one of my favorite search applications for Windows XP, and it is always getting better. Locate32 is capable of indexing all of the files on your computer in no time at all, and after it’s done you can use the intuitive interface for searching and viewing results. It’s not the most snazzy-looking application, but functionality is more important than appearance when it comes to searching.

What does Locate32 have to offer? Take a look at some of my favorite features:

  • Search the contents of files (takes longer since the content is not indexed)
  • Save frequent searches as presets
  • Long list of customizable keyboard shortcuts
  • Pressing the Windows Key + F while in Windows Explorer brings up the search dialog, and sets it to search the current directory you were viewing
  • Huge list of options
  • and more…

The developers of Locate32 are currently on the homestretch to releasing version 3.1, and with it comes a lot of bug fixes and features. Things like find-as-you-type are automatically enabled making searches even faster and more natural.

Interface (Click to Enlarge):

locate32 interface 1.jpg locate32 interface 2.jpg locate32 interface 3.jpg

Options (Click to Enlarge):

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–Finder (Homepage)–

Finder, not to be confused with Mac OS X’s Finder, is a program that accomplishes the same goal as Locate32, but with a different interface. It will index your files and put search results on your screen in the blink of an eye.

There are some things that I like better about Finder, such as the wider interface, but generally speaking it’s not as powerful as Locate32. The more unique aspect of the program would be the things you can do with the search results:

  • Perform operations on files and folders (copy, move, etc…)
  • Designate default applications for specific extensions. You can customize what program is used to execute, view, and edit a particular type of file.
  • Copy path(s) or name(s) to the clipboard
  • and more…

A new version of Finder is in the works, but the developer is shooting for a November 2008 release. I can’t wait to see what good stuff is in store for Finder 3.

Interface:

finder-2.png

Options (Click to Enlarge):

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–Overview–

There’s one thing that I didn’t cover yet, and that is the performance of the two applications. Both of them are nearly identical coming in under 6MB of memory usage when they are active. That is significantly lower than most desktop search applications, and a large part of that is thanks to the on-demand indexing rather than trying to monitor your computer for new files. Both offer an option to only index the files that have changed since the last time the database was updated, which means the first indexing operation will be significantly longer than the others.

Let us know in the comments how you go about searching for files and folders on your computer. We are always interested in trying out new software!

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