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• Off to PNM’s GarageBand class this morning. #
• Currently Browsing: http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/ — for use with podcasting #

• Currently Browsing: https://lastpass.com/ — been testing this, seems good. Slow on editing via their site though. #
• Tuesday night with Rich Warren at HMAUS/PNM lecture on iPhone — some great tips. Thanks Rick! #
• Downloaded the iPhone SDK at home, will try that out in my free time. (PC organization, but home is Mac!) #
• LastPass: Forums for troubleshooting, very responsive. Thanks Joe! #
• Now, off to eat sushi in the park with my wife and son! #
• When is Live Mesh (mesh.com) getting Mac support?! #

As someone who builds sites for a living and tests out new online applications all the time, I find that I have hundreds of passwords. Some are very valuable and some are annoyances (why did I have to create a login to get a software update from APS?!), and most are somewhere in between. Being familiar with security on websites, my logins are aways different and difficult to remember. After a while you quickly learn that postit-notes don’t cut it for keeping track of your online life.

I tried and purchased Roboform for my PC. VERY HAPPY with that. It stores hundreds and autofills logins for you. So you just remember the MASTER PASSWORD and it does all the rest!

Now that I’m using my Mac all the time, I missed Roboform and tried and purchased 1Password. VERY HAPPY with that. It’s the Roboform for Macs.

However, with two separate programs on two different platforms I’m always trying to sync passwords between my computers. Sure I can import and export between them, but that sucks; it leaves unencrypted files around as I pass them between machines, and it’s just plain time consuming.

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• Currently Browsing: http://tinyurl.com/655zu2 — Last.fm in your browser! #
• http://ping.fm/nUkGW — Email Prioritizer: sounds interesting, but only Office 2007 #

• HMAUS event next week: Rich Warren at UH-M on Tuesday night #
• Do you ever find yourself having a “Groundhog Day” kind of day. I do, especially with re-training staff things… #
• Typo3 upgrade testing, FF3 still not working, no scroll bar weirdness. #
• Drop.io — great, simple service! #
• Now Browsing: http://commons.wikimedia.org/ some great images that have clearly defined copyrights. #

As you may be aware, file sizes are getting larger and larger now a days. Years ago a floppy drive held less than 2 Megabytes, which seems pretty small when one photo on a digital camera can be that big now. And video sizes get REALLY big really quickly. A ten-minute video can be 500 Megabytes or more.

As you are also probably aware, most companies have a limit on attachment sizes in email. The reason for this is pretty simple; server space. (If someone sends a large file to all the staff, that suddenly eats up a lot of disk space on the server.) If the organization uses Exchange, often that limit is 5MB or less.

So, how can you send big files then?

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Being a Mac guy at home, I decided to try out Apple’s new MobileMe during their extended trial period. I had heard from lots of support blogs, and even from Walt Mossberg’s column that MobileMe was just too shaky to be reliable. Well, I tried it anyway. And, Walt was right.

In the two days of testing I did using an XP connecting to the Apple “cloud”, I lost contacts, calendar events, and my patience. The last straw was, I lost all my contacts except three; myself and one other that was a duplicate!

Then this morning I noticed this article (”last modified 8/18/08): ” MobileMe: Syncing with Microsoft Outlook and Exchange” which says:

MobileMe syncing allows you to sync your contacts and calendars with Outlook, unless Outlook is connected to an Exchange server. In this situation, syncing your Outlook data with MobileMe is not supported.

Oh. Now, I’m thinking, wasn’t MobileMe supposed to be for RoadWarriors, as Apple’s attempt to do Push Email to take on RIMs Blackberrys? And aren’t most of those folks using Exchange? So, then who is MobileMe for?

MobileMe Test Album

Yes, it seems that MobileMe has shifted to being a replacement from the .mac services for people who don’t have an “Enterprise” that uses Exchange… Disappointing…

On the plus side, it does make pretty photo albums.

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NEWS:

Time for a refresh! Hawaii local energy healer, Henri Rand Furgiuele, wanted to have her website: www.healing-in-hawaii.com updated with some new content and options. We were able to build out her site further and help with moving her to a Content Management System (still being developed).

Congratulations to Nohea Gallery on their new website: www.Noheagallery.com. They wanted us to build them an easy-to-manage, affordable, e-commerce website to show off their beautiful Hawaiian fine arts and crafts. Check out their new site: www.noheagallery.com and buy something today!