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Paul Krugman has a nugget to share

Which is pretty funny:  Krugman's blog

December 26, 2008, 4:30 PM

Cultural ignorance

Sometimes I despair. As I was driving over to my parents’, I heard a radio ad for some kind of housing development offering “your choice of exterior finish — brick, stone, or stucco.” Clearly, whoever wrote the copy for that ad has no knowledge of the classics (which seem especially relevant right now):

Groucho : You can have any kind of a home you want. You can even get stucco. Oh, how you can get stucco.

Online Storage Options for Mac OS X

I'm researching the available options for online storage and backup and found some useful resources as well as noted some things intially.  I'm not looking at all at anything requiring only Windows [some still do, but fewer these days] and because the storage amount has to be around 40-50GB, I'm not interested in free or smaller storage options.  http://tomuse.com/ultimate-review-list-of-best-free-online-storage-and-backup-application-services/http://tomuse.com/ultimate-review-list-of-best-free-online-storage-and-backup-application-services/

Hands down, the very best review I've come across is at Kevin's blog comment at:   ToMuse.

As for my initial findings:

Dot Mac opening account is $99/year and $50G for

family pack, $49 for 20G more storage [but you

can transfer up/down 200G per month]

Dropbox has 2G free then up to 50G for $10 a month; free downloads

Mozy is free to 2G, then $5 each month for

unlimited home use [Pro plan differs]

JungleDisk is software to sync data with Amazon

S3; the software is $20, the cost is 15¢ per G

up to 50TB with transfer rates [10¢ up and 17¢

down per G], with unlimited storage.

ADrive is free up to 50G [no desktop client, tho

I don't know for sure what that means] with more

features [including encryption etc.] at $69.50/yr.

SugarSync is 30G at $50/year, 60G for $100/yr.

Another review is at:  TopTenReviews

- I note that the providers listed there differ from

those I saw in the 2008 review.

Right now I'm leaning toward:  Mozy, JungleDisk, SugarSync, ElephantDrive and a few others....they each offer different and valuable options.  My main criteria besides price and simplicity is reliability, that they'll be around and the data secure and safe....

update:  I'm right now doing a free evaluation period backup via JungleDisk and may be able to report something on that in the near future.

Evernote - another great iPhone application

I decided to try this out, as it allows you to make notes or import and have documents available on the iPhone for use on it later when you're away from your main computer.  It certainly does that, as I found out when I moved a bunch of PDFs about an upcoming trip to it.  Move a PDF to the Evernote window and it imports and then click it and drag to one of the tags you want to apply, and it applies it to the item.

But even better, I was driving on the highway to a hearing today and heard something on the radio I wanted to remember.  I couldn't stop to write it down, so picked up the iPhone and went to Evernote [with a minimal amount of hassle] and pushed Voice Note and dictated a memo to myself to check on later.  Worked just great.  It wasn't anything particularly long, just a snippet, but it was easy to save and now I have it for use, later.  I'm sure it does much more, but this is enough to justify it's 'cost' [free at the iTunes App Store].

What a nice surprise!

A Christmas card from a former staff person from 10+ years ago:  To this day, you're still the best boss that I've ever had - and every day I use the skills that I learned in your office"  What a wonderful way to end/start a week.  

Two little Mac OS X Apps to let you focus on your work

Which I could really use:  Isolator and Menu Eclipse.  Explained and obtained through LifeClever

Nifty, Keeno iPhone Application Ideas

Meandering around the internet and iTunes store and listserves and came across some listings of good [mostly free] iPhone applications.  I'm downloading some and trying them out and figured I'd share them here too.

Top 10 Free iPhone 2.0 Apps from mariosundar.wordpress

and

Top 15 Free Productivity Apps for the iPhone from Mario as well

iPhone Transfer Apps review

Comparing Five iPhone File Transfer Apps - from TidBits

TidBITS

A good selection.  I have DataCase and Annotator and have found that I use Annotator more often.  It's incredibly easy - the iPhone doesn't have to be connected physically to my Mac [it will do the sharing and syncing via WiFi].  I save pdfs to a folder and then just sync its contents to my iPhone and then can read and notate the PDFs -- $4.99 at the iTunes App Store.  The link to the developer's site with more information is here.

  Gondolas in Venice, of course.  I just love Venice. 

Great iPhone list of tips and tricks

Here:  worth reading for great ways to use your iPhone as well as something I didn't know about iChat.