Dropbox announced yesterday they are increasing the amount of free storage one can earn by referring people to the service! I wrote a blog post about the service almost three years ago, claiming they made USB drives obsolete. Dropbox offers 2GB of free cloud storage that integrates seemlessly into Windows, Mac and Linux, and more […]
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Dropbox increases maximum free storage via referrals
April 4th, 2012 · No Comments
Category: Technology
Tags: Android, app, cloud, dropbox, free, iPhone, Linux, Mac, software, storage, Windows
WSJ on why work tech sucks">WSJ on why work tech sucks
November 24th, 2009 · 5 Comments
You’ll have to hurry before Rupert puts it behind a paywall and blocks Google from indexing it, but the WSJ had a good article recently about technology in the workplace. At the office, you’ve got a sluggish computer running aging software, and the email system routinely badgers you to delete messages after you blow through […]
Category: Technology
Tags: hardware, IM, iPhone, Kraft, productivity, software, tech, Windows
Google Docs to surpass Office in a year
November 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Now this is interesting. Comments from Google’s president of the enterprise division indicate he believes that Google Docs will “reach a ‘point of capability’ next year that it will serve the ‘vast majority’s needs.’” He acknowledged that Docs is currently “much less mature” than Google Mail or Calendar. “We know it. We wouldn’t ask people […]
Category: Uncategorized
Tags: cloud, Docs, Google, Microsoft, office, productivity, software
Do we have a software valuation issue?
December 31st, 2007 · 4 Comments
Soumitra Dutta of French business school Insead thinks so, as reported in this story on CFO.com: Insead has developed a “novel technique” to value software assets. Using conjoint analysis — “a time-tested and widely used robust technique in marketing science,” Dutta claims — companies can place a value on software by identifying its individual attributes, […]
Category: Accounting
Tags: asset, balance sheet, software
Preview Microsoft Office 2007 in the browser
November 7th, 2007 · No Comments
As long as your browser is Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher, you can take the latest edition of Microsoft Office for a test drive without having to install a thing. Experience the bliss of the ribbon, the new UI metaphor that has already won my heart over. I loathe still having to do my work […]
Category: Technology
Tags: Excel, Microsoft, Office 2007, Outlook, productivity, software, Word

