My 5 cloud based tools

DropBox allows users a powerful and easy way to store files online for sharing or for backup.

Picnik allows you to upload your own images for editing or send images from the Web directly to your Picnik account where you can process them without them ever touch your hard drive.

Basecamp allows you to save all files and project-related correspondence in one place.  It provides online collaboration and management tools for team members and managers that are accessible from any computer or smartphone

Dimdim provides a place to hold online meetings, conduct Web conferences, and conduct webinars in the cloud.
Zoho file and calender sharing provides a way for users to share access to digitally stores info like documents, multimedia files and calenders

Text etiquette

I am still not one of those guys that has embraced the texting revolution but I have maintained the phone upgrades every year.  I feel there is nothing like talking whether by phone or face to face.  This is becoming  old school communication and its happening fast and right in front of me.  I try to resist it  and one way  is my response time to text messages is not instant.  This is not because I want to it is because I never know when they arrive.  I am sure this could be remedied easily but its just  not very high on my priority list.  If it was an emergency I feel  they would have called because  everyone that I know  knows they call me and I am there.  I guess I said all that to say I love the new technology and all that they  allow you  constant  and instant  contact  with friends and family but  when a  new fad  causes you to become rude and other wise distracted I'm not ok with it. 

Hacker Kits

This story just blows my mind about people selling hacker kits that can make your job of stealing someone elses money easier.  How does that sound?  The fact that it is not legal should make this not avaiable to the public but it doesn't actually there sells have more then doubled from last year.  Plus you no longer have to know someone to get them just google it and there it is.  Now the price really surprise me the advertise price was $500 - 1000 dollars for one of the kits.  When I googled it these high priced sites did not show but there were little sites that offered nothing but talk for a small fee.  I will keep looking and report back.

Instead of Power Point

I just listen to a presentation that was given with a so call replacement for power point called Knowledge Vision developed by Michael Kilowich.  This powerful new application boasted of crisp slides with high resolution for pictures and charts that have been added to the presentations.  It also stated its availability was 24/7 from the web.  This would allow customers to have access to presentations at anytime and from anywhere the internet is available.  You can visit the site http://www.knowledgevision.com/  from there watch the video.  This was actually a refreshing and welcome upgrade from the way that we are accustomed to delivering a power point presentation.