Mar 5, 2007 | backup, web_services
Online backup has been a tempting possibility for years. Your files are automatically copied to safe online storage and kept up to date automatically at a reasonable price. Cool!Until now the companies offering online backup services have looked a little flaky. I kept...
Mar 1, 2007 | Microsoft, Office, photos, security, software, video, web_services
The post-holiday lull has ended, Vista is out the door, so we’re back to a nonstop barrage of new products and services. Here’s what stood out in the last week.Adobe will offer a free online version of Photoshop in a few months. If the service proceeds as...
Feb 22, 2007 | games, Internet, web_services
Second Life looked like it was poised to be the Next Big Thing when the media gave it blanket coverage a few months ago. (I got caught up in the hype and wrote a description of it that was way too enthusiastic. I’m sorry.) It’s still growing and making its...
Jan 2, 2007 | audio, DRM, web_services
The RIAA is resorting to even more bizarre behavior in its quest to be institutionalized for its own protection.AllOfMP3.com is a Russian site that has been thumbing its nose at the recording industry for years, selling high quality mp3 files of whatever you want for...
Dec 2, 2006 | audio, web_services
The world is awash with music, but the latest offering is a slice of heaven for anyone growing up in the 60s and 70s. Wolfgangs Vault is run by Bill Sagan, an entrepreneur who purchased the archives of legendary promoter Bill Graham and discovered thousands of hours...
Oct 24, 2006 | games, web_services
Productivity is overrated. Close the e-mail program, shove those piles of paper aside, there’s more important things to do: Sam & Max are back in a new game, their first appearance on computer screens since the late, lamented Sam & Max Hit The Road in...
