Month: May 2010

Bicycle Beta at Google Maps

Posted by | May 18, 2010 | , |

Yesterday, Google Maps added a beta for Biking Directions. You can get the full skinny from the Google Blog or go right to the Google Maps Page and choose “Bicycling” from the drop down menu under Get Directions. Google added information about bike trails, lanes and recommended roads directly onto the map. When you’re zoomed into a city, click on the “More” button at the top of the map to turn on the “Bicycling” layer. You’ll see three types of lines appear on the map: Dark green indicates a dedicated bike-only trail; Light green indicates a dedicated bike lane along a road; Dashed green indicates roads that are designated as preferred for bicycling, but without dedicated lanes I tried it out and it worked very well. Of course remember as the warning says when you submit your...

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ALERT: What the Copy Machine is Keeping

ALERT: What the Copy Machine is Keeping

Posted by | May 18, 2010 | , , |

I try and stay away from the copy machine, but indeed there were hundreds of times my tax prepareer, lawyers, doctors and employers, etc… have copied my personal and private data for their own files. I never think much about it, I mean, what are the chances that anyone would break into the offices and steal My records? But then I watched this segment on CBS News last night and what I saw was truly shocking: Are any others of you out there concerned about this newfound breech of privacy discovery? Let us...

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Seagate Confirms 3TB Hard Drive

Posted by | May 17, 2010 | , |

The computer storage giant Seagate has released more details about their new 3TB hard drive and its release later this year. The problem that Seagate was able to overcome was the logical block addressing standard, which is unable to give addresses to any storage block greater than 2.1TB. The first edition of LBA standards gave an address to each 512-byte sector, the smallest physical block of data on a drive. The solution was moving to Long LBA addressing, which increases the number of bytes used for an LBA address. Seagate says that this update will be usable in the 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Vista, and some versions of Linux, but it isn’t available for Windows XP. It has been speculated that Windows XP couldn’t recognize 2.1TB of a 3TB drive. To make this even more difficult, for those two operating systems to boot to a GPT partition on the drive, the motherboard must have Unified Extensible Firmware Interface suppport rather than BIOS-based booting. It will be very interesting to follow how other drive makers overcome this problem as hard drives start to move past the 2TB...

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Google Stops Sales Of The Nexus One

Posted by | May 16, 2010 | |

Google has recently announced big changes to their smartphone, the Nexus One, saying that they are closing their online cell phone store and will not sell the Nexus One online to consumers any longer. The Vice President of Engineering at Google posted on the company blog “While the global adoption of the Android platform has exceeded our expectations, the web store has not,… It’s remained a niche channel for early adopters, but it’s clear that many customers like a hands-on experience before buying a phone, and they also want a wide range of service plans to chose from.” Google opened the online store in January, and said that there would be more to come rather than just the Nexus One.  Verizon and Sprint recently made plans to support the phone, but they were ended shortly after. Analysts claimed that Google was moving ahead in the competition with smartphone makers Apple and Research In Motion, and this effort to make the Nexus One even more well known is very likely to have an impact. The Nexus One will now be sold in stores across the nation, due mainly to the fact that users wanted an interactive, hands-on experience with the phone rather than seeing it on a web...

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