It’s April Fools day, and if you didn’t catch it yet … Google has renamed itself “Topeka”. Why? If you didn’t catch it on the news a while back, Google is looking for communities to do experimental deployment of 1GB Fiber networks at a competitive price for consumers. Over 1100 cities applied, many with some creative video appeals on YouTube (see Westlake Village’s 2 minute video as an example at http://youtube.com/watch?v=rw1f4UJOd2E).
Read MoreWikipedia posted the below on their blog at:
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/03/global-outage-cooling-failure-and-dns/
Global Outage (cooling failure and DNS)
Due to an overheating problem in our European data center many of our servers turned off to protect themselves. As this impacted all Wikipedia and other projects access from European users, we were forced to move all user traffic to our Florida cluster, for which we have a standard quick failover procedure in place, that changes our DNS entries.
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By Gaurang Donovan
As alluded to in the late January 2009’s article, “Donovan’s Views: distorted grudges” (http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/donvans_views_distorted_grudges), I have a strict reading policy. I hope tech journalists, editors and reporters should note it when doing their job.
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Sustainable Softworks has released Phone Amego 1.1.13 ( http://www.sustworks.com/site/prod_phoneAmego_help/PhoneAmegoHelp.html), an update of the Mac OS X (10.5 and later) tool designed to make using your phone easier when you’re near your computer by providing on-screen caller ID, letting you click to dial a phone number from your Address Book or on your screen, and optionally dialing through Google Voice.
Read MoreOther World Computing (http://www.macsales.com) has announced the addition of a new 1TB model to the OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro FireWire 800/400 and USB 2.0 bus powered 2.5-inch portable storage solution line.
The pocket-sized portable storage solution for Mac or PC users features FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and/or USB 2.0 connectivity for data transfer speeds up to 100MB/second and is bus powered, so it can be used without an AC adapter.
The new Mercury On-The-Go Pro 1TB model is available in three interface configurations:
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