Dropbox gets more user friendly and gives away extra space

Photos page is going to make Dropbox an even more helpful tool than it already is.  The  Android app  automatically uploads  pictures. Now  Dropbox will let you automatically upload your memories from any source. Well, any source that can get online to internet. It does not matter if it is a phone,  camera or a tablet.  Once it is online you can  view your uploaded pictures on the web from the  new Photos page.

Getting pictures off your camera has always been a huge pain. So we put our heads down and worked worked worked to ensure that automatic upload would play nicely with anything that might have a photo or video on it. With the newest version for Mac or Windows, you can just plug your camera, phone, or SD card into your computer and with a few clicks of the mouse all your photos and videos are in your Dropbox!

Automatic uploading from the desktop is similar to Apple’s Photo Stream. So one should think first before having every picture you take go to your desktop. Your photos are uploaded in their original size and quality. Thumbnails of your pictures are grouped by month. IF you move your mouse over a picture you will get information about the picture. If you click the picture you will get a full screen picture and  the option to download and a link to share them.

Dropbox will  give you 500 MB of Dropbox space for your first automatic upload.  You can also get up to 3 GB extra for free. I loved Dropbox before; this just makes the relationship better.

Apple iPad just keeps eating Blackberrys

 

Apple’s iPad pretty much owns the tablet mar­ket. It’s competitors really can not compare. Sorry competitors I have more bad news. iPad’s enterprise market share is growing. One wonders does more tablets mean less windows machines?

Good Tech­nol­o­gy a enter­prise mobile ser­vices ven­dor reports that Apple’s iPad account­ed for 96% of tablets acti­vat­ed at the com­pa­nies that use the com­pa­ny’s ser­vices. The iPhone accounted for 53% of new phone activations. That is a very big percentage. It comes out to be about 71% of  mobile enter­prise devices  iOS. That does not sound very good for Blackberry, Android  and Windows device.

Chrome over takes Internet Explorer but so what, It’s free. Will Chrome OS ever beat Windows?

Google’s Chrome browser is now the most popular browser in the world according to StatCounter. Google Chrome reached a total global market share of 23.6% compared to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 market share of 23.5%. Side Note: Internet Explorer still has the largest global market share if you combine all versions of the browser.

“Google announced Chrome for business exactly a year ago and IT administrators appear to have embraced it in a remarkably short time,” commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. “Looking at the daily stats, Chrome 14 and 15 have been overtaking IE8 at weekends since the beginning of October. However, Chrome 15 overtook IE8 for the first time during the five day working week, in week commencing 5th December. It looks as if people favour Chrome on weekends at home but office commercial use has now caught up.”

StatCounter Global Stats are based on aggregate data collected on a sample exceeding 15 billion page views per month (4 billion from the US) from the StatCounter network of more than three million websites.

Now that is all great for the browser but Google is not making a dent in the all important operating system market. The Chrome OS has failed to gather any steam after the initial buzz of the CR-48.

Sync iPhone with Multiple iTunes Libraries

Thanks to Phoneable, a free Windows application you can now sync multiple iTunes libraries

Initially your iPhone is synced with the first computer you use it with. When you plug it into a second computer you can’t sync or manage the music on the phone. PhoneAble allows you to manage your music manually on the 2nd computer, which is different to syncing your music. You can still only sync music on the first computer.

1) On the second computer, plug your iPhone in, and back it up by right clicking on the device in iTunes and selecting backup.
2) Now close iTunes and run PhoneAble, run through the steps.
3) Open iTunes again, click on the phone in the devices section, then on the summary tab there is an option “Manually manage music and videos”, make sure that is on and Apply the change. Now try and drop some music files on the iPhone device, it should now allow you to copy music to your own phone.