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Wednesday, 20th April 2011

Get Your FreshBooks Invoices Paid Faster With PayPal Integration

FreshBooks, an online invoicing favorite among many small businesses and freelancers, rolled out an integration with PayPal Business Payments today, giving users the option to charge clients online rather than waiting for a paper check. FreshBooks has always been great at kicking out a nice-looking PDF invoice, which can be emailed to the client…

John Paul Titlow comments

Cloud Providers

How to Keep Dropbox Employees' Hands Off Your Data

Yesterday Dropbox, the popular file storage Web application that enables users to easily sync a folder from their local computer with the the cloud, made a small change to its terms of service. Dropbox made it clear that it would decrypt and hand-over files if the U.S. government requested it. The issue is not so much that Dropbox is willing to…

Klint Finley comments

Obama @ Facebook: "Science is Cool"

President Barack Obama and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat down at Facebook headquarters this afternoon to have a townhall meeting that was streamed live to the Web. Via Facebook Live and Livestream, Obama answered questions from Zuckerberg, the crowd and participants across the Web. Even though Obama was sitting on stage at the quintessential…

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Easily Share Files From Your Local Computer Over the Internet with Showoff or PageKite

Showoff is a simple service that lets you use your local computer as a file server over the Internet. You install the software (a Ruby gem), specify a folder or file using the "Share" command and then get a URL for sharing the location - ie, https://you.showoff.io. It's only available for Unix-based operating systems like OSX and Linux. There is…

Hack Klint Finley comments

Desktop Virtualization

Poll: Will Desktop Virtualization Be A Driver for Bringing Your Own Computer to Work?

The iPhone, iPad and every smartphone known to mankind have one thing in common. You can use them for work and you can use them at home. There is no difference when it comes to the new generation of mobile devices that people use. That is pretty much true for the Internet, too. People use Web apps for work and in the home. Testament to this trend…

Alex Williams comments

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