[TechRepublic] Paul Allen: My book isn't about revenge on Bill Gates

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Paul Allen: My book isn't about revenge on Bill Gates Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen on Sunday will talk to 60 Minutes about his book, "Idea Man," which caused a bit of a ruckus given his not-so-complimentary take on Bill Gates. Read more Resource of the day How to Start a Remote Work Program Where are your employees? They're working at home, at client offices, in coffee shops, even across the globe. Get practical tips for starting a telework program and learn best practices for managing a workforce you can't see. More from TechRepublic   Ask Jack Wallen your DIY IT questions If you're an IT pro in a small business or a mom-and-pop shop with a tech question, DIY IT Guy blogger Jack Wallen might be able to help. Here's what you need to know about submitting questions to Jack. Read more Tips for optimizing your web images Ryan Boudreaux explains the importance of optimizing your images for the web in order to balance quality and load times. Here are his rules of thumb for optimizing images and using appropriate file types. Read more Troubleshooting tricks for Android Exchange connection problems When there is a problem with an Android-Exchange setup, it can be difficult to figure out what has gone wrong. Jack Wallen offers some troubleshooting tips for common Exchange-Android configuration issues. Read more Geeks, functional deviant behavior, and evolution TR member dcolbert looks at the stereotypes between deviant behavior and antisocial nerds. He thinks it's possible that functional deviant behavior may even give some people an advantage by being more effective at their jobs. Do you agree? Read more News from ZDNet   Why is Chrome so important to Google? It's a 'locked-in user' Google execs say the lifetime value of a Chrome user is extremely valuable to the company. "Chrome is a guaranteed locked-in user for us in terms of having access to Google," says CFO Patrick... Read more Hands-on look: BlackBerry PlayBook (photos) RIM held a special media-only event in New York City on Thursday showing off the new BlackBerry PlayBook. Here's a hands-on look. Read more CIOs pay attention: Gartner says over half of innovation will be gamified by 2015 Whether you like it or not, gamification is hot, hot, hot. And CIOs and other IT types who aren't paying attention (or are busy pooh-poohing this trend) will be missing the boat, says Gartner.... Read more Google's first quarter earnings miss projections as expenses spike; Page makes brief appearance Google's first quarter earnings fell short of Wall Street expectations as the company continued to invest heavily in data center infrastructure and headcount. Read more Weak PC sales likely to ding Microsoft's Windows cash cow Both IDC and Gartner reported weak first quarter sales for the PC industry and that's likely to translate into some profit headwinds for Microsoft in its fiscal third quarter. Read more Apple releases iOS 4.3.2, Verizon iPhones get 4.2.7 Apple today released iOS 4.3.2 today for iPhone and iPad users fixing issues with blank/frozen video during FaceTime calls and international 3G issues with the iPad. Verizon iPhone users get iOS... Read more Tablet/ smartphone synergy: Ready for the next level I want my tablet and smartphone to work together to make them both better. I am ready for each device to play off the strengths of the other to make a more complete package. Read more Still Winning: Toshiba's Portege R830 picks up where the highly-rated R700 left off The Portege R830, which Toshiba released this week, has some big shoes to fill. Its predecessor, the Portege R700 received numerous accolades. Several sites have already reviewed the new version... Read more Mystery jump in GOOG revenues as AdSense publishers weaken Why have Google sites grown far faster than partner sites in Q1 when for all of 2010 Google sites could barely keep up? Read more VMware's Cloud Foundry must deliver on openness pledges VMware promises to make its Cloud Foundry open to any development framework, application service and cloud infrastructure. Delivering on those promises will determine whether VMware plays a bigger... Read more YouTube launches reform school for copyright violators: You're welcome, Hollywood Google launches a program that involves schooling - and a test - to allow copyright violators back on the site. Read more Featured multimedia   Windows 8 Milestone 1 Build 7850 Yesterday you might have read that an early Milestone 1 build of Windows 8 was leaked and made its way to the usual download locations. You migth be interested in grabbing yourself a copy so you could live on the cutting edge and take the new OS for a spin. My advice - Don't bother! View on site Sneak peek at leaked early Windows 8 build A sneak-peek at an early, leaked copy of Windows 8 (build 7850) View on site Top Android customizations Top Android customizations View on site BlackBerry tablet OS (screenshots) Take a closer look at RIM's operating system and apps for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. View on site Kyocera Echo The Kyocera Echo's design offers some unique advantages, but its appeal usability quirks and a lackluster feature set. View on site Today's recommended downloads How to Start a Remote Work Program (Citrix Online) Gain Control of your Infrastructure (American Power Conversion (APC)) Free White Paper: Improving the Efficiency of Large UPS Systems (American Power Conversion (APC)) Installing Messaging Security Software on Your Exchange Server (GFI Software) Preventive maintenance strategy for data centers (American Power Conversion (APC))   About this newsletter The Tech Sanity Check newsletter is my daily update on the world of technology. You'll get my opinions, reviews, user polls, and hand-picked stories of the day. Jason Hiner TechRepublic Editor in Chief My Twitter feed: @jasonhiner Camera phone challenge: April showers Submit your camera phone photos of water by Friday, April 29th for a chance to win TechRepublic swag. Get more details. TechRepublic newsletters   Get IT advice and techniques, mobile news, Mac tips, and product reviews in these TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Five Tips 10 Things Smartphones Macs in Business Product Spotlight LEGO galleries on TechRepublic LEGO fun at Brickworld Indy 2011 LEGO creations at MegaCon 2011 Lego builders show off their skills at Bricks by the Bay Amazing LEGO creations from Brickworld 2010

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[TechRepublic] Penultimate for iPad: A must for IT professionals

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Penultimate for iPad: A must for IT professionals Erik Eckel recommends a simple and low-cost tool for consistently collecting notes, creating drawings, and making diagrams that can be printed, emailed, and saved as PDF files. Read more Resource of the day Free White Paper: Establishing a Data Center Floor Plan That Works Building or updating your data center? Maximize its power density capabilities and electrical efficiency with a well-thought-out floor plan. Redundancy and flexibility with RAID1+LVM Vincent Danen tells you how to get reliable and flexible storage options when you combine RAID with LVM, which allows you to resize partitions inside a physical volume easily. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   Use Fake to automate web testing on the Mac Vincent Danen gives an overview of a new application for Mac OS X that automates interactions with a website so that developers can test code. Read more Choosing the right Git GUI client for Mac OS X Vincent Danen is a Subversion fan, but coming around to Git for the Mac. Before learning the command line for Git, he shopped around for a GUI client. Here's a look at the three main players and... Read more Finding hidden commands with the Option key Vincent Danen shares some of the hidden commands in Mac OS X that you can get to by using the Option key. Read more Share task and to-do lists via the Zenbe Lists app The Zenbe Lists iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch app makes it easy share lists with others. Scott Lowe explains how to use Zenbe Lists, which he says is worth the price. Read more Featured multimedia   Adobe iPad apps drive Photoshop (photos) A tour of the three iPad/Photoshop connected apps mode possible by the new Adobe Photoshop Touch SDK. View on site 10 iPad 2 apps for business iPad 2 owners will be able to find more apps for business that take advantage of the gadget's increased processing power. View on site LEGO galleries on TechRepublic LEGO fun at Brickworld Indy 2011 LEGO creations at MegaCon 2011 Lego builders show off their skills at Bricks by the Bay Amazing LEGO creations from Brickworld 2010 Today's recommended downloads How to Start a Remote Work Program (Citrix Online) Gain Control of your Infrastructure (American Power Conversion (APC)) Free White Paper: Improving the Efficiency of Large UPS Systems (American Power Conversion (APC)) Improving Airflow in a Raised-Floor Data Center (American Power Conversion (APC)) Monitoring physical threats in the data center (American Power Conversion (APC)) Camera phone challenge: April showers Submit your camera phone photos of water by Friday, April 29th for a chance to win TechRepublic swag. Get more details. TechRepublic newsletters   Get net admin tips, tech tutorials and news, and off-topic posts in these TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Network Administrator Five Tips IT News Digest Geekend

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[TechRepublic] Atrix review, ereader apps, Zenbe Lists

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Motorola Atrix review: The beginning of the smartphone-as-PC The Motorola Atrix establishes four new breakthroughs in smartphone experience. See what they are and how well its Webtop software measures up in creating a desktop-like environment. Read more Motorola Atrix photos: The docking smartphone Resource of the day Gain Control of your Infrastructure Discover how today's infrastructure management software packages integrate with virtualization platforms, enterprise management systems, and even building management systems for holistic management of the entire data center ecosystem. Comparing the top four ereader apps Deb Shinder discusses the features and the drawbacks of the free apps for the Kindle, the Nook, the Sony Reader, and iBooks. Read more Share task and to-do lists via the Zenbe Lists app The Zenbe Lists iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch app makes it easy share lists with others. Scott Lowe explains how to use Zenbe Lists, which he says is worth the price. Read more Penultimate for iPad: A must for IT professionals Erik Eckel recommends a simple and low-cost tool for consistently collecting notes, creating drawings, and making diagrams that can be printed, emailed, and saved as PDF files. Read more Camera phone challenge: April showers You have from now until Friday, April 29, 2011 at 5:00 PM EDT to submit camera phone photos of water. We will send the participants of our three favorite submissions some free swag! Read more Featured multimedia   Configure ShareFile mobile access on an Android device Cloud storage is now on your Android phone. In this gallery, IT pro Rick Vanover walks you through the file exchange solution called ShareFile, which leverages cloud storage. View on site Six egg-cellent Easter apps for iOS (screenshots) Listen up, peeps! Ready to get your Easter on? These iOS apps offer coloring for kids, egg decorating for Martha Stewart wannabes, games galore, and more. View on site Top 2 Android superphones: Motorola Atrix 4G vs. HTC Thunderbolt Motorola Atrix 4G vs. HTC Thunderbolt -- 2 best Android phones View on site HTC Sensation 4G hands-on (photos) The new HTC Sensation 4G will land at T-Mobile this summer, but CNET's got a hands-on sneak peak now. See our photo gallery for more. View on site HTC Incredible S (photos) We got a little preview at Mobile World Congress, but now it's time to take a deeper dive into the HTC Incredible S. See CNET's hands-on photos here. View on site Kyocera Echo The Kyocera Echo's design offers some unique advantages, but its appeal usability quirks and a lackluster feature set. View on site LEGO galleries on TechRepublic LEGO fun at Brickworld Indy 2011 LEGO creations at MegaCon 2011 Lego builders show off their skills at Bricks by the Bay Amazing LEGO creations from Brickworld 2010 Today's recommended downloads Gain Control of your Infrastructure (American Power Conversion (APC)) How to Start a Remote Work Program (Citrix Online) Installing Messaging Security Software on Your Exchange Server (GFI Software) Preventive maintenance strategy for data centers (American Power Conversion (APC)) Osterman Research: The Impact of Messaging and Web Threats (GFI Software) Perennial favorites   Set up an Exchange account on your Android phone Add a second Exchange account to your iPhone 4 Connect to a PPTP VPN from your Android phone 25 must-have iPhone apps for productive geeks The five best Android calendar apps Identity theft: Businesses are at risk Identity theft: It's becoming increasingly hard to spot. Criminals are finding evermore creative ways to steal your good name. Watch out for this one clue. TechRepublic newsletters   Get Mac tips, the latest IT news updates, product reviews, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Macs in Business Sanity Check Product Spotlight Five Tips 10 Things

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[TechRepublic] Motorola Atrix review: The beginning of the smartphone-as-PC

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Review: Product Spotlight on up.time 5 IT Systems Management If your business and your IT department continue to grow, you will likely need to consolidate your system management into a cohesive application suite. Read more Motorola Atrix photos: The docking smartphone Resource of the day Gain Control of your Infrastructure Discover how today's infrastructure management software packages integrate with virtualization platforms, enterprise management systems, and even building management systems for holistic management of the entire data center ecosystem. Motorola Atrix review: The beginning of the smartphone-as-PC The Motorola Atrix establishes four new breakthroughs in smartphone experience. See what they are and how well its Webtop software measures up in creating a desktop-like environment. Read more Firefox 4 poll: Big improvement or time to move on? Mozilla has officially launched the long-expected Firefox 4. For some, it has solidified their loyalty to Firefox. For others, it's the final signal that it's time to move on. How about you? Take the poll. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   It's Microsoft Patch Tuesday: April 2011 Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right decision on applying Microsoft's April 2011 patches in your organization. Read more Netbook mod performance with Joli OS TR member dcolbert talks about his experience with Jolicloud's Joli OS mobile platform. Find out where he thinks Joli OS succeeds and where it fails. Read more Guns, babes, and rootkits: A Windows guru writes a thriller Microsoft's Mark Russinovich released his first novel, a thriller based on a zero-day attack. Mark Underwood reviews the novel and the security tech featured in it. Read more 20 more online tools for web design Ryan Boudreaux presents 20 more online tools for web designers. They include tools for font selection, px to em conversion, type tuning, CSS snippets, and more. Read more 10 tools that simplify collaboration The key to collaborating effectively is to find tools that make working with others easy and efficient. Jack Wallen shares a list of tools that have greatly improved the collaborative process for his projects. Read more Featured multimedia   Kyocera Echo The Kyocera Echo's design offers some unique advantages, but its appeal usability quirks and a lackluster feature set. View on site $180 RAMOS MID W9 Android Tablet teardown Bill Detwiler cracks open the $180 RAMOS MID W9 Android Tablet. This low-price tablet has chips from Samsung, Hynix, Rockchip, and Analogix. View on site LEGO galleries on TechRepublic LEGO fun at Brickworld Indy 2011 LEGO creations at MegaCon 2011 Lego builders show off their skills at Bricks by the Bay Amazing LEGO creations from Brickworld 2010 Today's recommended downloads How to Start a Remote Work Program (Citrix Online) Preventive maintenance strategy for data centers (American Power Conversion (APC)) Gain Control of your Infrastructure (American Power Conversion (APC)) Free White Paper: Establishing a Data Center Floor Plan That Works (American Power Conversion (APC)) Installing Messaging Security Software on Your Exchange Server (GFI Software) Defragmentation Applications   UltraDefrag tool MyDefrag 4.2.6 Smart Defrag Defraggler Bookmark the Product Spotlight Blog   Identity theft: Businesses are at risk Identity theft: It's becoming increasingly hard to spot. Criminals are finding evermore creative ways to steal your good name. Watch out for this one clue. TechRepublic newsletters   Get net admin tips, tech tutorials and news, and off-topic posts in these TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Network Administrator Five Tips IT News Digest Geekend

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