By Erik Small -

A brief reminder that the File Transfer Planet Forums are now fixed (had a small issue for those trying to create a new registration profile).

Also, don’t forget to utilize the FTP Guides and share with friends. They include basic information on FTP, how to setup an FTP Server, or simply transfer files from your FTP client to a Server/Host.

Winter Computing - Need to Transfer Files?

By Erik Small -

Have you used any of Google’s popular apps? How about the personalized iGoogle or Google Docs or Google Talk? All are great services, but will they open up unwanted security risks for many organizations?

Have a read through this latest security risk article from NextGov, a technology and business for government website.

“Google’s large following, which includes federal contractors, will find it quick, easy and inexpensive to transfer company documents — and potentially unencrypted government files, said former Gartner research director L. Frank Kenney.”

By Erik Small -

For many of us, we’re enduring cold weather across the US and around the globe. Some lucky folks have traveled to the Consumer Electronics Show  (CES 2010) in Las Vegas. 

One of the cool gadgets already unveiled at the show comes from Microsoft, an HP ‘slate’ running on Windows. It’s a touchpad device that Microsoft has announced will be “more powerful than a phone and almost as much as a PC”. They are perfect for reading, browsing the Internet and entertainment.

Here are some images from CES in Las Vegas:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Erik Small -

If you’ve been watching the tech news this week, Google announced it will begin including real-time searches into it’s SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). This will be interesting to watch whether this makes the searches more relevant — or just clutters the page with more ‘stuff’.

Here’s a screenshot for a search on ‘computers’, and highlighted in red real-time search results:

By admin -

Microsoft is apparently shrugging off the big Chrome OS announcement from last week, which seems a bit silly to me. Considering Google is very big on FREE, a school of which Microsoft does attend – and with years of frustrated MS OS users, I would say that a Google offering will be a very welcome option. Especially being a Linux base – so hey, maybe we won’t need some ungainly antivirus/firewall suite bogging down our systems.. mmm, to dream. Anyway – here’s some more reason MS ought to worry -

Googles got a not-so-secret weapon in its bid to convert the world to applications such as Gmail, Google Docs, Google Talk, Google Sites and, soon, Googles Chrome operating system: the 17 million college students on more than 4,000 campuses across the country.

For more than two years, Google has approached colleges and universities with a near-unbeatable offer: provide unlimited hosted e-mail and other applications, all branded by the institution and delivered free of charge.

via Googles 17 Million Built-in Chrome OS Users GOOG.

By Erik Small -

just how secure.. is your security?

I just figured I’d share with the group some recent data and security breach news stories from the last few days…does it ever end?

• Snooping through the Power Socket (BBC)
• Elance hit by Security Breach (TechCrunch)
• Someone Call Security (Twitter)
• Questions on Cloud Security (Network World)

By admin -

what we find funny here.. is that there’s no time for excercise!! (hellllloooo Wall-E)

Steven Leckart, my surfing buddy and Wired/BoingBoingGadget Writer, did this variation on the USDA’s food pyramid for media consumption. Agree with the proportions? I don’t. I mean, where’s the slot for comic books? [Wired via BBG]

via Balance Your Media Diet – Eat your media – Gizmodo.

By pete -

We at FTPlanet have some preferred means of getting the info we need. RSS is clearly a big one, and how to manage those RSS feeds? We use Google Reader. Like many Google products, this one is FANTASTIC – and always improving. Today, even more features have been released to turn this into a beast of a social networking tool. You can now “like” items, and sharing is how busted wide open to anyone. Wonder if Facebook is starting to sweat? Check out the updates from Google Reader’s blog..

When we first started improving our sharing features, our goal was to make sharing as simple and flexible as the rest of Reader. Today, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve made four improvements to give you more sharing control and help you easily find other people’s publicly shared items within Reader.

Find and follow other people

Instead of sharing your items with others and hoping they reciprocate, you can now find people with public shared items and subscribe to their shared items with one click. Use our new people search feature (powered by Google profiles) to look for people who have public shared items. You can browse by name, location, or topic, and start following new people — all from inside Reader… continued at Official Google Reader Blog: Following, liking and people searching.

By admin -

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is releasing a new policy in which anyone can start a top-level domain (the part of a URL to the right of the period, such as “.com” or “.net”).

According to ICANN, this service will enable entrepreneurs to sell specialty addresses, such as .shoes, .ibm, .movies or .apple, to interested parties.

via ICANN Avails Top-Level Domains at High Price-Point – MarketingVOX.

By admin -

Another post nabbed from the epic site, Lifehacker.com. They recently broke down some of the top online image editors, and chose the “best”, in their weekly “High Five” series. Take a gander at Aviary Phoenix! Sounds like a very cool system for those who don’t want to install a heavy application on their computer.

Online image editors have rapidly become very sophisticated. Last week we asked you to share your favorite online editors, then we rounded up the top five. Now we’re back to share the results and announce Aviary Phoenix as the winner. Following behind Aviary Phoenix: Adobe Photoshop Express and Sumo Paint.

For more information on the winner and the runners up, check out the full Hive Five. All of the online editors are available without registration, so you can jump right in and try any of them out hassle free.

via Lifehacker – Best Online Image Editor: Aviary Phoenix – Image Editing.