I have to admit upfront that I’ve had a Mint.com account for a very long time and never used it. Every time I went to enter my account information something made me pause.
“What am I thinking? I am really going to trust them with all of my money?”
When a technology journalist I like to follow mentioned that he finally entered his account information because his security concerns had finally been met, I thought I would finally take the plunge. Then, suddenly out of nowhere, Intuit decides to buy Mint.com.
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Wondering if it’s possible to do a clean install of Snow Leopard on your Mac? Turns out you can. In this tutorial I’ll show you the steps to do just that.
But before we plop the DVD into our Mac, we have to do some preparatory work. Make sure you’ve checked to see that all of your critical applications that you use are compatible with Snow Leopard. You can find a compatibility list here.
Next you will need an external hard drive that you’ve successfully connected to your Mac. It should have enough space to do a complete backup.
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Posted by: Jeff Owens in Google
Culled from one of the 20% Google projects co-creators Mihai Parparita, Brett Slatkin and Brad Fitzpatrick came up with PubSubHubbub, a way to increase efficiency across the cloud and decentralize services.
This means that instead of continuously polling or requesting for news feed updates, the feed now will automatically update or push on its own via a distributed model. There is no more waiting and updates are now close to real time.
Read more about it here: Speed in the Feed: Google Reader and PubSubHubbub
Tags: feeds, Google, PubSubHubbub, reader, rss, speed
Posted by: Jeff Owens in Betas
In a stunning announcement last night, Google has indicated it’s desire to create a new Operating System based on it’s Chrome browser, taking full aim at Microsoft:
Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.
…And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates.
…Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems.
…Even more importantly, they don’t want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates.
Let the OS wars begin.
Tags: chrome, Google, Microsoft, operating system, os
