The Dark Side of Unlimited Mobile Phone Plans
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 29. May, 2008 | Comments
“Unlimited” is the new black for mobile phone operators (at least until the iPhone Black is released in two weeks), but what are the implications for consumers? After a surprise overage of $150 last month, I found out! It seems that I’ve been burning up the airwaves with calls lately, and my rollover pool dried [...]
Watch Out When Buying From the iTunes Wi-Fi Store!
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 28. May, 2008 | Comments
It seems that there is another iPhone gremlin, this time in the interaction between the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store (as seen on the iPhone and iPod Touch) that can cause your purchases to vaporize. This only seems to apply to folks who have unchecked “automatically sync” and have not previously clicked “Transfer Purchases From…” in [...]
Custom Icons Keep Removable Drives Straight
Posted by Stephen in Personal, Terabyte home on 27. May, 2008 | Comments
Update: I have created another page for custom drive icons in Mac OS X
If you’re like most people, you have accumulated a large number of removable USB storage devices over the years, from flash-based thumb drives to external hard disks. I have seven of these things sitting on my desk or in by laptop bag [...]
Jargon Watch: EMC 3D = Data Deduplication
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 21. May, 2008 | Comments
Watching the announcements coming out of EMC World today, one bit of jargon stuck out at me: The EMC bloggers are starting to refer to “data deduplication” as “3D”. I had never heard this terminology before yesterday, but the EMCers are all using it, so it must be a popular term inside that company. So [...]
Email Archiving: Just Can’t Get Enough
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 20. May, 2008 | Comments
One of the surest of sure things in the storage industry right now is the potential for email archiving solutions. There are literally dozens of products out there, with prices and functionality for pretty much any application. And the growing demand for letigation hold and search has made this an essential technology for any organization [...]
Hello from Storage Decisions Chicago
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 13. May, 2008 | Comments
I arrived in beautiful Chicago today for the Storage Decisions show at the Hilton here. What a great event this is – loads of interested and committed storage users and some of the best minds in the business get together to talk about how we all do this thing we call storage!
I was glad to [...]
