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Dropbox

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If you haven’t heard about Dropbox, let me give you a quick summary:

You open an account with them, then install a small piece of software on all your computers. The software creates a “Dropbox” folder on each of your machines that gets magically synchronized via the internets so that any file you drop in one machine in the folder appears on all the other machines. All synchronization happens transparently in the background. It’s quite seamless. They have a version for Windows, a version for Mac (which is very good) and even an iPhone app.

But it’s also useful if you have only one computer: Any file you add to your dropbox is accessible through the website… with the added bonus that the file is now backed up! So you can use your dropbox to store important documents that you don’t want to lose if your hard drive crashes.

Even better: You can, through the website, “share” a folder with another Dropbox user. So if you drop a file in your dropbox, it appears on someone else’s dropbox. This is a great tool for sharing large files, such as *ahem* your home videos.

So why am I talking about this Dropbox thing? Because if you open your account using the referral link below, they give me additional space on top of my 2 GB, which I could use. Open your account using the link below:

By opening a Dropbox account using this link, Marcos gets 1/4 extra GB.

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Google \/\/ave

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Google Wave invitation screen Got an invite to Google Wave tonight. It look pretty darn powerful and useful. And as a web application, it’s very impressive too. But like so many other things, the more people that use it, the more useful it becomes. Do you have Google Wave? Do you use it? What do you think? Use the comments. You say you don’t have it? Well, what a coincidence! I happen to also have a few invitations. Want one? Use the comments.

Update Nov 13, 2009: All invites are gone! Thanks for reading.

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The Forty Days

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Buddy and Sno Cone Club Vice President of Deliciousness David Becker is starting work in 40 (well, now 37) days. He decided to do something outlandish every day and blog about it.

The Rules: Every day for forty days, I must do something new, interesting, or unique, something completely absurd, or something I’ve always wanted to do but never had the time, motivation, or cojones to do.

You can follow it at http://thefortydays.com/. In the meantime I’ve added it to my Google Reader and to this blog’s blogroll (see the column to the right). Should be fun to watch. Maybe I’ll be in one of those posts one of these days.

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Ciérrale

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It finally rained… and it rained hard in Austin all weekend. But it’s still pretty dry out there which reminded me of these very famous TV commercials from a very successful water conservation campaign in Mexico all the way back in 1983. What I did not know is that the kid in the ads is the son of comedian Enrique “El Polivoz” Cuenca. Check them after the break…

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