technology and audio matters

Looks like there’s a new release to the Google mail client that I run on my Nokia phone. Check out http://www.google.co.uk/mobile/default/mail/index.html for details. I’ve just installed so can’t report anything as yet. I use Gmail to collect email from my main pop3 account whilst I’m away from my office. I’ve been using for about six months now. The only problem I’ve had, is it’s possible to end up in a ‘lock out’ situation when attempting to send an email whilst no network is available. I’ve had to uninstall the application to recover from this. Let’s hope this is resolved in the latest version. Watch out for an update.

I’ve mentioned this  before, but things are changing. I’ve been playing with on line backup just to get a feel of how it works – www.mozy.com offer 2Gbytes of free online secure storage. You load a small application on to your computer and point it that folders you want to backup. That’s it! The benefits are clear, it’s off site and will survive in the event of a fire/flood/robbery… Negatives: It’s relatively slow as in the first instance you have to back up all of your files. You’ve also got to trust them too, typically the data is encrypted before it’s sent. Remember upload speeds on broadband are much lower than download. Typically 256k bit/s . But once you’ve uploaded the program only stores changes. Mozy have a commercial offering if you want to save more and their are other well known players like www.carbonite.com of which people seem to speak highly of. I’ve even stumbled across a ‘peer to peer’ type solution where you use disk space from trusted friends, that’s neat. Check out http://www.zoogmo.com/. I haven’t tried yet, but I’m tempted. The next phase is to take the plunge in order that I can store my 10G of photos , well I guess that’s another article. There’s also the media streaming project! How to find the time…