Organize your digital life!

The internet has made it so that students like ourselves no longer have to be simply consumers of media, we are also creators, and manipulators of it. Well, that's great and all, but when you have millions of people with similar access to the internet your gonna have problems. As author Sarah J. Wachter writes in the New York Times article "Beaming to the Cloud All the Mess That is Our Digital Life" our "digital closets" are overflowing with info as well. We may make use of the unlimited space of the internet, but the digital info we store is scattered across a range of devices like phones, computers, and mp3 players. One answer to this problem is the rapidly growing business www.sugarsync.com which allows users to store, back up, sync, share and collaborate on data, music and photos and reach that information from any device, anywhere. In fact they offer a 2 gigabyte service for free, and offer up to 60 gigabytes for $9.99 a month. While sugarsync.com is not the only digital content management service it is one of the largest names in the business right now, and a free 2 gigabyte service is an offer that will make you find a good use for the service. I recommend you all to give the service a chance and see if you can't come up with a good use for a service that is expected to be a $4 billion industry by 2012.

Ive linked the service website and the article below for you to check them out:

https://www.sugarsync.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/technology/25iht-clutter25.html?_r=1&ref=technology

Google and facebook

Arguably the two most widely used websites on the internet would have to be Google and Facebook. Google, one website known for always being on top of the new most popular thing on the internet, is apparently falling behind with its inability to connect to the social networking site. Many websites have a high facebook connectivity which allows audiences to post their activities from the website on their facebook page. Surprisingly enough google hasn't had any social networking capabilities until recently, and even those are lacking in popularity among googles users. This has proven to be a growing problem for google, because the audience which used to seek out information through google is now finding that some info by asking their facebook friends. In fact, more people spent time on facebook than google for the first time last August. Is there a chance that the google we known and loved for years now may be replaced by some facebook application in the future? Personally I doubt it, but I can't say for sure, only time will tell

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/technology/18google.html?_r=1&ref=facebook_inc

Videogames: a good thing?

If your a video gamer like I am then your probably tired of people saying that they're good for nothing or a waste of time. A new study by the Helen Willis Neuroscience Institute has shown that playing video games can remedy amblyopia, more commonly known as "lazy eye". The traditional therapy is to let a child read with a patch over their dominant eye, which helps strengthen the weaker eye. The problem with this however is that the exercise is much less effective on adults. In a recent study participants were tasked with playing video games in 2-hour sittings over the course of a month. The participants showed very promising results. In fact the study showed that 40 hours of video games is equal to 120 hours of the traditional therapy, so not only are video games a good form of treatment, they are actually BETTER than the traditional treatment. So from now on when people say that video games are good for nothing, you finally have something to say back!

http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/09/25/video-games-shown-to-be-effective-in-treating-lazy-eye.aspx