Rodent Regatta

Joyent acquired TextDrive and the two companies began merging their know-how, dreams and skills. Thanks to Dean Allen, the company continues to offer incredible products and services with the best still on the horizon. Today, there is another lifetime hosting arrangement offered with the first taste of combining the services of Joyent, TextDrive and also Strongspace. Take a careful look at The Mixed Grill. Here’s a glimpse:

TextDrive

• 2 GiB disk space
• Up to 15 top-level domains
• 20 Gig bandwidth/mo
• Unlimited mailboxes and subdomains
• Up to 20 databases
• All the great standard features

Strongspace

• 9 GiB storage
• 3 upload users
• Unlimited read-only users

Joyent (available Feb 2006)

• Complete hosted application suite, including email, files, contacts, calendar, and all future updates
• Up to 5 users

Recently some new software has entered the toolbox or will very soon. Different people get excited about different features in software. Sometimes there’s a definite functional aspect that sets a product apart. There are look-and-feel issues that carry the day for others. Notepad sits at one extreme. Perhaps TextMate sits at another.

Here are some tools that are becoming a bigger part of my work:

Social networking tools haven’t typically been on my radar screen. However, I think ma.gnolia may have the potential to change my thinking. Newsvine is a new way to look at (and contribute to) reported news. I’ve used FeedDemon to subscribe to RSS feeds for some time now. Under new ownership and with version 2.0 just around the corner, I’ll be spending more time reading sites via the aggregator. Finally, SnagIt has caught my fancy as a useful tool for dealing with images.

Click the logos above for more information about each tool!

Technologists don’t understand Google. Some say the Google Pack is worthless because it’s focused (first) on Windows XP. Others point out that the software is already available elsewhere. Still others know a better way. There’s more to the story than what the insiders believe is reality.

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Why does it take over seven hours to download an update to Adobe’s Photoshop Elements 3.0? The 4.0 update is a 500MB+ file.

This application better really be good. What on earth could Adobe’s Download Manager be doing to throttle the download to such an extent. Oh well, here’s to better doctored digital photos in 2006!

Today marks the ten year anniversary of the joint announcement from Sun and Netscape. Read the press release and remember.