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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/gcentral.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/gcentral.txt deleted file mode 100644 index f444092..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/gcentral.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ -<img alt="Grandcentral" title="Grandcentral" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/03/23/grandcentral.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />Google is reportedly considering buying out the telephone management site, GrandCentral for an undisclosed amount. - -[GrandCentral][4], which we've [looked at and generally liked][2] when it launched last year, uses one centralized number to route your incoming calls to any phone. Designed for those with several phones who'd like to consolidate their numbers, GrandCentral is quite handy. - -Since writing the earlier review I've been using the service on a regular basis and have become quite addicted to it. There's also a new feature that delivers "[visual voicemail][5]" (despite Apple's overhyped claim about the iPhone being the first to deliver such features) to just about any smart phone. - -Taking GrandCentral's already impressive set of features and integrating them into GMail or GTalk would be a real boon if Google wants to move into Skype's market. - -Although [TechCrunch reports][1] that their source believes the deal is already closed, neither Google nor GrandCentral have responded or made any announcements. I just fired off an email to GrandCentral's founders and I'll be sure to update this post when I hear back from them. - -Also note that If you're interested in internet phone services, you should check out Michael's [review of Vtxt from Callwave][3], a service that will transcribe your voicemail and send it to you as a text message. - -[1]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/24/google-to-acquire-grand-central-for-50-million/ "Google To Acquire GrandCentral" -[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/grandcentral.html "GrandCentral Delivers" -[3]: http://www.wired.com/software/webservices/news/2007/06/callwave "Voicemail-as-Text Service Quiets the Ringing in your Ears" -[4]: http://www.grandcentral.com/ "GrandCentral" -[5]: http://www.grandcentral.com/howitworks/mobile_inbx "GrandCentral Mobile"
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[Plaxo 3.0][1], as the company calls the updates, boasts a number of synchronization improvements and aims to be your one-stop address book and contact manager. - -New features include find-as-you-type search and click to call buttons in the contact portion of Plaxo as well as a new calendar section that integrates Yahoo weather along side your schedule. - -Also new is a content sharing system which allows you subscribe to friends content feeds as well as create your own feeds by pulling in data from popular web services. At the moment those services are limited to Flickr photos, Amazon wish lists and blog feeds, but Plaxo says support for more web services will be coming in the following months. - -While the bells and whistles are nice the real news are the changes to core of Plaxo's synchronization options. - -Having used Plaxo off and on for about a year, I was never that impressed with its functionality. Importers often choked and the desktop client was more intrusive than helpful, but I'm happy to report that the new version solves those issues. - -Plaxo now offers an online "Sync Dashboard," which brings together multiple "sync points," such as Google Calendar, Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo, Mac OS X, AOL, Thunderbird, LinkedIn and even your mobile phone in one handy location. - -And in my testing the synchronization worked perfectly, provided you give it time, since it's certainly no speed demon. - -While the new Plaxo Dashboard provides an easy way to update contact info across various platforms (GMail is currently not supported, but Plaxo says it will be added soon), perhaps even more useful is the calendar synchronization. - -I've never found an easy way to sync between Google Calendar and Apple's iCal, but Plaxo handles the two quite well and every change I made from either end was quickly reflected at the other end (and of course on Plaxo's own Calendar in the middle). - -Other new features in the Plaxo desktop client for Mac include improved support for Mail.app. Plaxo now injects a small drop down menu at the top of each mail message to show whether or not the sender is in your address book. The menu then gives you options to add that person to your address book if they aren't already in it or, if they are, Plaxo will show their contact card. - -Since the same thing can be accomplished by using Mail's built-in connections with Apple's Address Book, the Mail feature isn't totally necessary and can be turned off in the Plaxo system preference pane, but the contact card preview can come in handy. - -Plaxo also support similar features in Thunderbird, but I haven't tested them. - -But for all its strong points, Plaxo 3.0 has some serious drawbacks as well. I found the web interface buggy and slow in Firefox 2.0 (it was better in IE, Safari is not yet supported). - -The Sync Dashboard frequently timed out or threw infinite loop redirect warnings and even when it did work, syncing was unacceptably slow. I have a meager 31 contacts in my address book and Plaxo took around five to seven minutes to update them, depending on which client I used to sync. - -Also the links which should appear at the bottom of the main page for adding additional sync points didn't show up in Firefox (this seems to have been fixed as of 3:30pm). - -However, once Plaxo works out the kinks (the service is officially still a public beta) they will indeed have the killer app for online contact info management especially for those that rely on a variety of different web services since Plaxo manages to make synchronization seamless. - -In the meantime, if you'd like to check out Plaxo without having to sign up there's a nice demo video below from Plaxo. - -<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/n-yXudmFowE"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/n-yXudmFowE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> - -[1]: http://www.plaxo.com/info/corp/learn_more?t=1&f=landing "Plaxo 3.0" diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/plaxo1.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/plaxo1.jpg Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 7457a08..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/plaxo1.jpg +++ /dev/null diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/plaxo2.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/plaxo2.jpg Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 8a46f02..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/plaxo2.jpg +++ /dev/null diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/plaxo3.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/plaxo3.jpg Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index ad73405..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/plaxo3.jpg +++ /dev/null diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/safecache.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/safecache.txt deleted file mode 100644 index ccdd9cd..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/safecache.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -Browsers hemorrhage information. Cookies, auto-fill information, search history and more can be accessed by websites, and while sometimes this information is gather for benign reasons, sometimes it's not. - -With more and more people refusing to accept cookies in their browsers (almost every modern browser contains a preference for controlling cookie settings) marketers and others that would like to know what you do on the internet have turned to other means. - -One sneaky way of grabbing information uses the browsers cache as a means of tracking user behavior. - -Which brings us to [SafeCache][1], a Firefox plug-in developed by Stanford university that protects your privacy by defending against cache-based tracking techniques. - -SafeCache allows embedded content to be cached, but segments the cache according to the domain of the originating page. - -To install SafeCache, just head over to the site and hit "install." Once you restart Firefox open up the preferences and under the "Privacy" tab you should see a new option to turn SafeCache on and off. Regrettably there isn't a way to set per-site permissions, but it's still better than nothing at all. - -The same folks at Stanford that developed SafeCache also have another Firefox add-on named [SafeHistory][2] which attempts to defend against visited-link-based tracking techniques. - -And for an excellent write up on various other ways you can make Firefox more secure have a look at Security Hack's "[Firefox: 10 tips to bolster your privacy][3]." - -[via [Lifehacker][4]] - -[1]: http://www.safecache.com/ "SafeCache" -[2]: http://www.safehistory.com/ -[3]: http://www.security-hacks.com/2007/06/08/firefox-10-tips-to-bolster-your-privacy "Firefox: 10 tips to bolster your privacy" -[4]: http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-firefox-extension/prevent-cache+based-tracking-with-safecache-270366.php
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/symantec.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/symantec.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5f94878..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/symantec.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ -<img alt="Symantec" title="Symantec" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/05/22/symantec.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />A while back we told you about Symantec accidentally [crippling upwards of 50,000 Chinese Windows machines][1] when the anti-virus software deleted two critical system files in the Simplified Chinese edition of Windows XP which left those systems inoperable. - -In an [attempt to return to its users good graces][3] Symantec is offering affected users a free copy of Norton Save & Restore 2.0 backup software (enterprise users can get Symantec Ghost Solution Suite) along with a 12 month extension to the Norton Anti-Virus subscription services. - -Symantec calls the offer a "gesture of goodwill," however given that Norton is in fact the source of the original problem, many users may think twice about installing it again. Or as the Register so [drolly puts it][2]: "cockroach in your salad, sir? Have some free salad." - -Symantec had previously hinted that was considering a compensation package of some kind for affected users, but an extension of the same service that caused the problem is dubious at best; especially given that some Chinese enterprise companies are rumored to be demanding up to $130,000 for lost productivity. - - -[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/symantec_hoses_.html "Symantec Hoses Chinese Windows Users" -[2]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/25/symantec_compensation/ "Symantec showers free software on bug-afflicted Chinese" -[3]: http://www.symantec.com/zh/cn/home_homeoffice/theme.jsp?themeid=goodwill
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