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Dropbox (service) Due to trademark disputes between Proxy, Inc. and Evenflow (Dropbox's parent company), Dropbox's official domain name was "getdropbox.com" until October 2009, when they acquired their current domain, "dropbox.com".[7] OPSWAT reported in their December 2011 market share report that Dropbox held 14.14% of the worldwide backup client market, based on number of installations.[8] In May 2011, Dropbox struck deals with Japanese mobile service providers Softbank and Sony Ericsson. As per the terms of the deal Dropbox will come preloaded on their mobile telephones.[9]

and SciTE SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration programs as well as SciTE and Scintilla, themselves. SciTE is currently available for Intel Windows (XP or later) and Linux compatible operating systems with GTK+. It has been run on Windows 7 and on Fedora 22 and Ubuntu 15.04 with GTK+ 2.24. Here is a screenshot of SciTE.

Portsmouth Island, North Carolina: The Loneliest Land — Our State Magazine Rising from the Pamlico Sound south of Ocracoke, on the watery, windy edge of the state, Portsmouth Island is one of the last few wild, uninhabited islands along the North Carolina coast. Out here, beyond bridges, beyond telephone poles and power lines, in the sticky, salty ocean air, lies a barrier island as it is meant to be — vast stretches of smooth, white beach with natural dunes; salt marshes of swishing spartina and needlerush; plains of grasses cut by winding, blue creeks; hummocks of wax myrtles and scrappy, salt-stunted cedars and live oaks; sand flats that alternate between drenched and desert dry. Twenty-two miles long and never more than a mile wide, Portsmouth is three miles across the sound from Down East Carteret County.

Tech Weekly: Web Minute: Make Gmail work like Outlook Are you like me you in that you really miss some of the natural ability of MS Outlook to keep you organized throughout your day but you are on the go or you don’t have a MS Exchange server at your small business or at home? You can make yourself a nice portable office suite for email and productivity. I have used the following: 1. Portable Firefox 3 beta 3 from Portableapps.com 2.

bopuc/weblog: A brief history of Podcasting The first Podcaster The first Podcast Celebrity. Coca Cola anybody? Welcome About this video Get on the fast track to video editing with Premiere Pro CC with this start-to-finish overview. Released The Top 10 Best Dropbox Services, Addons and Hacks - TNW Apps Everyone from heavy Dropbox users to those who are wondering just what the fuss is all about with this cloud syncing business should be able to find something useful to them in this list. If you’re unfamiliar with Dropbox it’s a sync service that keeps one folder, the drop box, on your computer in sync with the Dropbox server and any other computers or mobile devices that you have Dropbox installed on. It’s a fantastic way to keep a selection of files handy no matter where you are. This is a collection of 10 of the most useful Dropbox services, apps and hacks that take Dropbox beyond convenient and into the realm of necessity. Note that this list focuses specifically on addons and tweaks rather than applications that feature Dropbox integration. We’ll take a look at those another time.

Viridian Note Key concepts: Web 2.0, nomenclature, neologisms, archaeologisms, spimes, blogjects, fabjects, blobjects, thinglinks, everyware, FlickR, Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, Caterina Fake, ubiquitous computation, Marc Weiser, Tim O'Reilly, Alan Liu, Adam Greenfield, Ulla-Maaria Mutanen, Julian Bleecker, O'Reilly Media Emerging Technology Conference 2006 Attention Conservation Notice: it's a Bruce Sterling speech at a California technology conference. Delivered at alpha-geek central, it may include indecipherable techie in-jokes.

Signet Financial settlement: Local auto dealers pressured to pitch in Hundreds of Oregonians received letters this past week delivering news of a refund from Signet Financial, a defunct company most had given up on long ago. Equally surprising was what Oregon auto dealers read in letters they received. California-based Signet abruptly closed its doors in March 2011, failing to pay between $1,400 and $2,900 each to an estimated 1,000 people who bought cars in Oregon.

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