Quote: Originally Posted by kcmac I'll never understand the Picasa love thing. I use it at work on my PC only because Windows is lame in this regard. Would never want Picasa on …

Quote: Originally Posted by brokenjago As far as I know, the only Macintosh compatible software Google has ever released is the gMail notifier for Mac OS X. Most Google softw…

Quote: Originally Posted by Wiskedjak Google Master Plan http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/21470089/ ...presented on a Yahoo property.

Quote: Originally Posted by tavilach Most Google software is via the web browser. Google. Google Maps. GMail. That's kind of the genius of it, isn't it? Isn't that exactly …

Quote: Originally Posted by SirCastor That's kind of the genius of it, isn't it? Isn't that exactly what Microsoft wanted to do with .Net? They wanted your applications to resid…

Quote: Originally Posted by teszeract THE WAR Quote: Originally Posted by Tesseract They are selling ads, mostly. They also sell search appliances and "Google minis". …

Two persons. I was first.

It always takes Microsoft a few years to catch on to new technologies, but when they do they always shut out the competition. Let's have a quick run through the graveyard of Micro…

Quote: Originally Posted by Kerrigan It always takes Microsoft a few years to catch on to new technologies, but when they do they always shut out the competition. Let's have a …

Quote: Originally Posted by Kerrigan It always takes Microsoft a few years to catch on to new technologies, but when they do they always shut out the competition. Let's have a …

I love how Google is using Microsoft's own tactics against it, i.e. giving stuff away to compete. I'm not sure there'll be a clear victor - Microsoft has deep pockets but I think i…

I'd just like to see a few different companies shaking things up. And if it comes to the point where you just have two formats that work well with both programs then the consumer …

Quote: Originally Posted by Salty I'd just like to see a few different companies shaking things up. And if it comes to the point where you just have two formats that work well …

Quote: Originally Posted by JackNN Actually I'd like to see a duopoly where Google owns the information Google already does own the information. Google knows when you eat, w…

Quote: Originally Posted by edgr Google already does own the information. Google knows when you eat, when you sleep and who you sleep with, what brand of car you drive and what …

Quote: Originally Posted by edgr Pretty soon you'll see little googlebots buzzing around the streets: "GoogleBot: indexing your life." Do you have any proof of this?

IMHO. The only way M$ is going to compete well against Google is by splitting up. The size of M$ is its own biggest problem.

M$ is trying very hard to become the next General Motors, a company living on past glories staffed by brain-dead execs whose only concern is quarterly financials and obscene execut…

Quote: Originally Posted by amsalpemkcus IMHO. The only way M$ is going to compete well against Google is by splitting up. The size of M$ is its own biggest problem. That's…

I'm going to be switching from DSL to Cable, and in doing so I'm gonna lose my static IP. Since I run a server, I'm going to need a dynamic dns service, and I'm wondering which th…

Try ZoneEdit (www.zoneedit.com). They'll cover you on both counts.

http://www.dyndns.org I've used them for about 4 years, they're great. I think it's $20 a year to use your own domain, so that doesn't qualify under your free requirement, but $2…

Quote: Originally Posted by bwahahax Since I run a server, I'm going to need a dynamic dns service, and I'm wondering which the folks here in the forum would recommend. Now for…

Well i recently got a new job, which is boring as hell mentally. Thus i am being foced to buy an MP3 player, and what better choice than the Ipod Nano right? I've read many review…

1) Yes; that's the only way the iPod will recognize your computer in a way that lets it accept playable music. 2) Yes. The iPod even comes with iTunes on CD for both Mac and Wind…