By Greg Mills
I live in Kansas City, Kansas. I pay US$49.90 a month to Time Warner Cable for “Road Runner Turbo” Internet service. We had download speed this morning of 26.45 Mbps and an upload speed of .94 Mbps and a ping in 42ms. My iPad came in at 6.24 Mb/s download and .56Mb/s upload. Lithuania has an average speed three times what I do now. Just wait, Lithuania.
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By ‘Doctor Dave’ Greenbaum
When Google suffered a major outage recently and temporarily lost customer files, I, like others, saw the signs of a storm coming.
Cloud Pull helps you weather the storm and keep your cloud-based information backed up. It is a simple program that is simply indispensable.
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Earlier this week we reported that Google is ending end support for H.264 on its Chrome browser. The company has reiterated its plans to push its own open WebM video codec via Flash-like plug-ins for Safari and Internet Explorer users so it can ship free platforms without incurring external licensing fees.
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Golden Hill Software has released CloudPull, a Mac OS X application that backs up Google Docs to the Mac. It backs up documents, spreadsheets, and presentations as Microsoft Office files; drawings as PNG image files; and other files in their native formats.
CloudPull provides users with a local, independent backup of their Google Docs, says John Brayton, developer of CloudPull. It backs up automatically, once every hour. It maintains backups of prior revisions of documents and maintains backups of documents that have been deleted from Google Docs
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On its Chrome blog (http://macte.ch/qFtik), Google says it’s ending support for H.264 on its Chrome browser, opting instead for the WebM (VP8) and Theora video codecs.
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