Draw your data from Facebook, post them in Priv.ly

That's about it can be summed up what a kick-project planning, through the mirror line currently writes. Privly wants to prevent that Facebook, Twitter and Google all of our data with hoarding windy conditions at all times. Better, the developers of Privly if you just left there is. Only those who have the appropriate browser and has received clearance, the posts can see in their browser. For everyone else seems just a Privly link.

Google launches social search, thought to happiness of the off button

All this will change once again. Emphatically. Definitively. Thus one reads it almost everywhere now. I personally can do it not just to feign surprise or particular interest: the Google algorithm, first the English-language Web revised and more intertwined with their own social network Google Plus. Roll out the new service is now available. And not just a few mention the frontal attack on Facebook .

I do not know. Clearly you need to write something to be in today's online media circus ever heard of. But if that was a frontal attack, the weapons were here from flower leis and peace symbols. Google search has calmly presented and above all, step by step. For weeks I get in my search recommendations as articles that were geplusst. And a social search based on recommendations from friends, necessarily always with us Google-like search examples. And that happened for months , oh, what I say, years . What is new is that the social search seems reasonable finally implemented. And that's a step in the right direction - but no more.

You will learn to love the off button

There is now no danger that we rotate only in our own circle of haze and thereby discover anything new? Clear answer: No, that's no danger. First, we do it already long ago in our networks. On the other hand can be turned off, the social search with a simple push of a button. And I promise you, this button you will still use frequently.

Otherwise? If you can live with it. The big question is whether we are on long-term social search even have goat. In each of our networks and so now even in the most important search engine us our more-or-less friends roar every minute with their stuff. A cut-off switch was needed, and thankfully Google has introduced the same time. And the others? Facebook was careful not been before, looking to address the issue seriously - and still goes wonderfully with it. It roars all so enough of. And Twitter was once asked his search to the fore and she transferred for disciplinary reasons shortly afterwards in the rearmost bench. Social Search? Is a nice extra on and turn-off, but nothing that will change anything big.

Ubuntu One for Windows

Ubuntu users know and appreciate it for quite some time now and Windows computers will benefit from Ubuntu One . To make it short, there is a cloud software like Dropbox to share files across multiple computers and smartphones (more on that tomorrow in a separate article) to synchronize.

Leg of a Ubuntu Linux installation is already provided with built-in, so ye need only log in with your account and you immediately get 5 gigabytes of online storage free of charge, which you can top up fee if necessary.

To use this Cloud and Windows XP, Vista and 7, you must be the only client you install and set up an account, of course, also free. Here you can use any number of computers or mobile phones with the same account and have your files anytime and anywhere up to date.

The competitor Dropbox you have 250MB of memory in comparison, you can expand the paid advertising or other users, here it goes, as I said the same and you can go with 5GB Ubuntu One also integrated in Windows Explorer by simply creates a new library.

Since I manage several computers with different OS, formerly the dropbox my number 1 because I could not use this software on Windows and Linux in parallel, but that is changing in recent years more and more.

Synchronization, online storage, or both: Which cloud type are you?

The virtual disk Dropbox offers cloud computing as a textbook. Twice in a row won the popular services such as the choice for online service of the year at the colleagues of Netzwertig.com. Just yesterday I read of three similar services who want to repeat the success of Dropbox: Insync , SugarSync and Accellion .

I am a very mobile person, have a computer in the office, a laptop at home, two phones and I travel a lot. And yet I do not use Dropbox. Not because I could not abgewinnen the service. I need it not just easy. I use private cloud rather in the form of synchronization services. Often it is only on second glance, that it is about actually constitutes cloud computing. Type a question?

Active and passive cloud

Gmail as I use at home, at work and on the go. For my company I use Exchange mailbox. Both cloud computing, and yet neither of them is interested in how I consume lots of memory there. Since I use WordPress to work (which is also a kind of cloud computing), I use almost no more Office program. If I am forced by others to some games, I mostly use Google Docs . Since Simfy has improved its synchronization service, I add new songs to the desktop version and get them automatically sent to my smartphone. Things that come to my mind, I think on a smartphone or a computer with Evernote fixed. A service that synchronizes my account permanently. Save posts that I like, I both on the road on my desktop in Read-it-Later list . List wonders on my computers and the iPhone reminds me of what I have to do.

In all cases there is cloud computing, but I save them anything knowingly in a virtual drive. A memory for music in the cloud such as Amazon, Google or Apple, I do not need. For this I use Apple's icloud, without interest me, how many gigabytes of data stored for me in my virtual directory. It is good but wonderful to sync your contacts or appointments.

Dropbox, however, offers more control over their own files. I can access my photos, documents, accessing songs without that they would be stored in a corporate giants such as Google. Maybe there are two streams that flow side by side: the active cloud, in which one manages its own directory, and the passive cloud, where you mainly synchronize its data. Both have in the past two years, gained considerable popularity, and I see a trend towards passive cloud. How do you use cloud computing and if there is such a thing: Which cloud type are you?

Samsung latest notebook series: 7 Chronos

Yes I've recently purchased an Eee PC, in fact, I've also toyed with the idea to put me a little subnotebook. Now, I happen to be the Samsung 7 Chronos caught his eye, which sounds really interesting.

Not only that, the notebook is in addition to the 15.6-inch screen diagonal 13.3-inch version as well (so ideal for working on the road), no to the 7 Chronos also be ready in seconds. Not like my admittedly lame Eee PC. Before I sit that is sometimes like the older lady in the following promotional clip for the Chronos 7:

Basic cluster: Xoom's successor, Tablets on sale, the new Prime Transformer

photo credit: BestBoyZ Germany

New devices announced are left abandoned RIM hardware goes on sale, problems with the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime - the basic cluster is present in front of the tablet market.

News comes from Motorola: Two Tablet successor to the Xoom, at the time the first model with Android 3.0 Honeycomb. The pioneering role in the operation of the system give Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition from these tablets, however, they are not shipped with the new Android 4.0, but Android 3.2. Even the step from two to four processor cores can be made ​​of the mobile phone maker, admits the new Xoom and its dual-core CPUs, but a higher clock frequency.

Motorola brings Xoom 2 * 2

Compared with the first Motorola Xoom, whose stately 13 mm high enclosure brings the scales at 730 grams, the Xoom 2 at the same screen size (10.1 inches) much slimmer (8.8 mm) and lighter (599 grams). With the Xoom 2 Media Edition Motorola is further away from the path that has already been tried, the Xoom. The approximately 216x140x8, 9-millimeter and 388-gram tablet will better with a 8.2-inch display in the hand - mainly to play videos. An IPS panel is for crisp colors and wide viewing angle, provide the hardware to be strong enough for 1080p Strip and the speakers create a spacious sound with bass.

Whether the promise can be kept in practice, you can check it in the next month. Motorola will then bring out the two tablets with 3G and Wi-Fi module in Germany. Instead of €-prices there are still question marks in the UK have a rough direction of prices: In Great Britain, the Xoom-2 models already sold, with no UMTS for about 400 to 450 euros. The detailed specifications are en it here .

RIM playbook and Sony Tablet S on sale

Sent in the sale are currently the BlackBerry playbook and the Sony Tablet p. RIM playbook with BlackBerry Tablet OS and 7-inch screen was the purpose of enhancing the attractiveness of reduced several times, in the U.S. online store has the party now re-applied the red pencil. Cost of the Tablet PC with 16 gigabytes (GB) of storage space so far $ 499, the 32-GB version and $ 599, the version with 64 GB $ 699, there are now three versions for $ 299. Nor are all in stock, so that U.S. users a handle assembly for the richest nothing stands in the way. In German Shop BlackBerry RIM calls while still 499-699 €, but the trade has already responded by selling the tablets from about 300 to 400 €.

With percentages of late also attracts Sony. The wedge-shaped tablet S with built-in universal remote control is in the Sony PlayStation Store to have $ 100 cheaper. With 16 GB of storage for $ 399.99, therefore, twice the memory for 499.99 U.S. dollars. In this country, Sony sells the Tablet PC with Android 3.2 and 9.4-inch display for 429 €. With UMTS module 549 € will be payable, with 32 GB of memory and WLAN € 529.

Prime Transformer: Android 4.0 on approach

There is also news for Eee Pad Transformer Prime from Asus. That's not available in this country quad-core tablet already got in trouble with the toy manufacturer Hasbro in the headlines, you know, Transformers and Optimus Prime. Then some customers complained about a bad GPS reception and curled bootloader. Via Facebook Asus will now obtain position and also clarifies when receives the new Eee pad that is in the U.S. first started with Android 3.2, the promised system update .

From the 12 Asus wants to start in January, Honeycomb world by Ice Cream Sandwich to replace (4.0). The criticism of the GPS module, the manufacturer says with a reference to the unibody enclosure made ​​of metal. The material could affect the performance of GPS, as the weather, buildings and the environment. To help customers who are looking for a good GPS performance value, not to annoy, Asus sweeps the GPS function from the data sheet and the product will no longer apply accordingly. Prime-buyers who want to lend a hand to the firmware does, Asus also an unlock tool prospect. The boot loader has been secured in order to understand Google's DRM-protected paid content, like videos. Nevertheless, the future will be an unlock available - as is customary with the expiration of the warranty side effect. Google's video rental then separates from it