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Google Goofs Google Docs

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There's nothing I hate more than when a company "improves" their product to only make it dumber and less friendly than it was before the improvement.  Today's case-in-point are The Google -- who decided to goof with how a Google Docs file is saved and then released from view.










I am quite convinced the quick ascent of the nascent Apple iPad will be a thundering earthquake that will change, in less than a year, the way most of us do our public business on the web and our private pleasures at home.   Technological advances come in flashes and thunderstorms and not drips and drabs.  The iPad is such a phenomenon that it will kill three things in rapid order:

1Password to Harden them All

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A couple of years ago, I tried 1Password for Mac OS X, and I immediately uninstalled the program.  It was too complicated to employ and too confounding to infuse into my daily, online, life. 

Learning English via SMS in India

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Nokia are doing interesting things with cellphones like providing Braille SMS on their phones.  However, the plan to teach English to poor rural children in India using cellphones seems like a bad promotional gimmick rather than an honest effort at education.

The Via Starbucks Review

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As a confirmed caffeine addict, I do loves my coffees.  While I have enjoyed my elitist machine-ground coffee beans in the past, I am now a lifelong member of the Instant Coffee Brigade.  I was born on Taster's Choice, bred by Medaglia D'Oro -- and I'm now swimming in the newest "Via" instant taste treat from Starbucks.

Over the last month or so, Gibson knocked $600.00USD or so off their SG electric guitar.  Such a price smash on such a popular guitar can only mean one thing:  A New Version is Being Released!  Is this "Zoot Suit" the new Gibson SG?

Google announced -- Wave -- yesterday, a new online collaboration meme that blends email, maps, documents and social networking into one workspace.  Is Wave Google's Basecamp killer that will finally make Google Apps a complete and total winner?

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