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Apple unveils new MobileMe beta

Despite how everyone’s moving to Google’s free Gmail system, I still love MobileMe. For one thing, I think the interface is much more intuitive and less cluttered than Gmail, and it uses real folders. That, and all the other things you can get with MobileMe made it well worth the $100/yr. for me. However, there were some things about MobilMe’s mail system that annoyed me to the point where I couldn’t use it for anything more than just a simple email system since all the work I needed to do had to be done on my home Mac.

Michael Gaines | May, 13, 2010 | 0 comments

Stratosfear part 2: keeping your files in the cloud

Part two of our series of working in the cloud talks about different services for keeping your files in the cloud.

A few years ago, if I wanted to copy a large project I was working on between work and home, I’d have to burn it to a CD-R or DVD-R. This was clunky and slow, not to mention expensive since both CD and DVD burners were expensive when they were first released. Over time, USB drives came to be and that made everyone’s lives so much easier since they’re so cheap. They are still something extra to carry around, and I’m not one to carry too much with me, so sometimes I’d forget. Since I carry my iPod around with me all the time, I could essentially use that as a storage device if I really had to.

Michael Gaines | Apr, 14, 2010 | 0 comments

How to read PDFs on an iPad using GoodReader

One shift I had to make when moving to an iPhone was the lack of a real file system. Other phones I used like the Nokia N95 or the Sony Ericsson had a tangible file system that you could navigate through, and apps could access directly. The iPhone doesn’t have such a thing. Either apps keep files in their own walled garden, or they have the ability to access music and photos through the shared spaces that Apple allows. With the iPad, there’s no Documents space, and using documents on the iPad is becoming a real hassle.

Michael Gaines | Apr, 5, 2010 | 3 comments

Stratosfear part 1: should you move to the cloud?

Stratosfear is an ongoing series of articles about moving your life and your data to The Cloud. We’ll cover solutions, fears, security, its benefits, and its hazards.

Part 1 in this series gives an overview of life in The Cloud.

Michael Gaines | Mar, 25, 2010 | 1 comment