Google Updates Privacy Settings

Hello All, A prosperous and healthy New Year to you all. I have been swamped these last few weeks so I’m just getting around to doing a little online “jotting”. For those of you out there that maybe using some Google service or the other (hard not to), you would be interested to know that the tech giant has gone ahead and updated their privacy policy.

SOPA – Stop Online Piracy Act or Steal Or Privacy Away?

Ok, so you’re probably asking the very same question I asked the very first time I saw the acronym and then what the acronym means. What the hell is SOPA? Well here’s the deal, SOPA – the Stop Online Piracy Act, is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011. The bill expands the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. You ca read more about it here.

Windows 8: Windows 7 In Disguise?

Don’t spam me and don’t send the MS assassins to get me either. I will be the first to admit that my very cursory glance at Windows 8 is in no way a true representation of some of the more in-depth reviews of the developer preview that’s out there for all to read, however, I believe that a new product, whether hardware or software, should “wow” you straight out the gate. And Windows 8, did not wow me!

The Growth Of Social Media Networks

I used to think that the flood of social media websites that were showing up with every click of your mouse, was nothing more than a passing fad, well most of them anyway. But over the last several years it has been noted that these social media websites have grown significantly and in some cases continue to grow.

New Look Gmail

Apologies for this post but I had just finished writing a 220 words article on the new Gmail interface, and I’m not sure what happened, but only 10 words where saved when I previewed the article and I can’t seem to gather my thoughts again, so check out the new Gmail interface at this link.

Is This How It Will Be In The Future?

So the brainiacs over at Microsoft decided that they would give us a glimpse into what they believe the future of technology will be like and how we would interact with our environment with technology built into every surface.

Skype, Now Officially A Division Of Microsoft

Well folkes a quick post to let you all know, it is now official. Skype is now a division of Microsoft. The deal was officially announced yesterday by Skype president, Tony Bates.

Major BlackBerry Outage WorldWide

I know a lot of people that have been having severe withdrawal symptoms from not getting their BlackBerry fix, especially BlackBerry Messenger, Twitter, Facebook, and all the other social apps that keeps then “connected” with their friends.

Managing Your Cloud Computing Life

Cloud computing, is slowly but surely gaining traction. For personal use, most people have a GoogleDocs, LiveDrive, SkyDrive, Windows Azure, Rackspace Cloud, Amazon S3, FTP server, or whatever branded or un-branded cloud storage service that’s out there. This is a good start to your cloud computing life. A few people have asked about uploading and managing files on multiple cloud storage services.

Extend Your Windows Taskbar Across Multiple Monitors

Windows 7 is great with the setting up of multiple monitors and does this with the greatest of ease, almost effortlessly for most. The support is so simple that its a shame not to do it. That said, my only issue with the Windows 7 multiple monitors support setup is the lack of the Taskbar on each monitor.