Island in the Net by Khürt Williams
Technology and Photography Musings. Established circa 2000.
Apple announced the final piece of it product transition from the PowerPC to Intel. The newer Mac are Apple's top of the line machines with dual Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processors (that's four CPU cores!), supports up to 2TB of storage and very fast video engines from ATI and Nvidia. The Mac Pro keep the case of the older G5 PowerMac and offers build-to-order options for processors, graphic cards, memory, hard drives, optical drives etc. I am salivating over these fine machines.
If MacUser's Aaron Freedman's analysis is correct soon working from home will get a lot easier for me. Aaron suggests that soon Google will start offering on-line storage similar to Box.net and iDisk. Some enterprising hacks have already found ways to use simple Gmail accounts to accomplish the same thing but an official Google offering would be extremely popular.
Google already has some of this in place with the Google Browser Sync extension for Firefox. I have been using this extension for several weeks not and it works seamlessly across my browsing sessions from home and work. The extension continuously syncs my including bookmarks and saved passwords across all the computers I use. It can also sync browsing history and cookies but I see no reason to do so.
Google truly is making it easier to live my on-line life complete immersed in the Google operating system.
