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Google launched Google Drive today with 5 GB free cloud file storage. Like other cloud storage such as Dropbox (referral link) and Microsoft’s Skydrive, Google Drive allows you to sync, access and share files on the web, on your computers, and mobile devices.

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For example, when you save a file in Google Drive’s folder on your PC. It will automatically uploaded to Google Drive server. Then, you can access the file on the web, your mobile device and other authorized computer(s).

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Editor’s note: This article is written by Vincent who attended PlayBook OS 2.0 media event in Malaysia and, very lucky, won a 16GB PlayBook in a game contest. In this article, you will learn about the new features of PlayBook OS 2.0 update.

When the PlayBook first launched in April last year, the world was taken aback by its lack of native email, calendar and contacts client. It’s Research In Motion we are talking about here after all, a company that popularize mobile emailing. Fast forward to February this year, the Waterloo-based company released a software update, the PlayBook OS 2.0, to finally fix its glaring shortcomings.

The new native email, calendar and contacts clients are not built just sufficiently good to shut up the criticizers — they are built to impress. Beyond that, the new operating system also brought the much anticipated Android app player, as well as enhancements on the user interface and overall features. Click Here to Continue Reading »

Editor’s note: In this guest post by W.K. he explain what’s OpenDNS and the various benefits of using the DNS service instead of your default Internet Service Provider’s DNS.

What is OpenDNS?

DNS stands for Domain Name System and just imagine it’s a huge phonebook that contains all websites IP. The job of the DNS is to translates every queries of the human-readable website addresses (www.google.com) to browser-readable IP (216.239.51.99), so that the internet browser knows where to fetch the data from.

OpenDNS is the leading DNS provider that offers free premium DNS service to everyone instead of the default ISP DNS. It’s a relatively reliable DNS and its users have reached 1% of the total world’s internet users. Meantime, the number is counting strong due to its reputable creditability. Click Here to Continue Reading »

Dropbox, the popular cloud file hosting service, launched a new beta with Camera Upload feature to automatic import and upload your photos in phone or camera. Dropbox is giving away 5GB bonus space to beta users. Read on for the details.

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Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Chee Seng. If you would like to contribute too, please contact me.

Defragging – sounds brutally technical. But for you, it translates to one thing – more speed. As hard disks get bigger, and the demands on them ever more pressing, the need to keep all that data flowing – smooth-as-silk – becomes ever more important.

Video data; music files; media-rich web content; these all need big chunks of your hard disk set specially aside. But for the best performance, those files really need to be placed in one long strip of your disk drive. The problem is, when Windows writes files to your disk, it tries to make the best use of disk space; not to assure lightning-quick disk reading speed.

So those files can get splattered all over the disk in fragments, which results in the slowing down of everything on your system. The solution is disk defragmentation – the regular running of a program to put those fragments back together. Which is better known as a disk defragger.

The good news is that, however technical defragging may sound, the tools to defrag your hard disk are often very simple to run. The better news is that many of the best defraggers are free – such as the following excellent disk defragmenters. Click Here to Continue Reading »