I know that alot of people go crazy for the latest and greatest iPhone. I'm not really one of them. I have gotten over needing to have the latest and greatest. I am more about have the most productivity with the greatest effeciency and value.

I was recently talking to a friend of mine on the phone and he asked me to call him back on his home phone. He explained that he had just gotten a new iPhone 4 and it was a piece of...uh, let's just say he was not very happy with the call quality.

There has been a lot in the news lately about holding the new iPhone incorrectly. However there seems to be severaly other design issues. For a company that is all about design, that may be a huge problem.

I have seen both good and bad reviews.

Gizmodo has provided a lot of information and the final analysis is towards the negative but acknowledges the positive: http://gizmodo.com/5573952/iphone-4-review.

Engadget's review seems to gloss over any negatives and is all about the positive: http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/iphone-4-review/. Unfortunately, it feels too Apple-Friendly, almost as if it was a paid advertisement.

I would suggest that before you buy, ask those friends that still love to get the new gadgets early. I'm pretty sure they already have one.

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A new version of Hotmail has just been released. This really looks good.

Here is a compasion of the new Hotmail to GMail: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-hotmail-challenges-gmail.html

I have also added a video about it in the media section: http://www.nsage.com/Media/Media_Player/VideoId/16/The-NEW-Hotmail.aspx

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If you have looked through the portal, you will have noticed a whole bunch of little orange icon. These are RSS feeds. We use these for our blogs, groups, forums and uploaded materials.

If you click on the icon, it brings you to a page that you can use to grab the latest items for that category. You can use that page to have other programs and services such as Outlook, My Yahoo and Google reader automatically fetch these for you. This allows you to get feeds from multiple sources and keep updated on all of them in one place.

This video gives a brief description of what RSS is and how you can use it.

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Do you backup your computers?

You have a lot of valuable data on your notebook, home computer and office systems. If you do not have a backup strategy, you should get one. If you are simply backing up to drives that are within your office, what happens if you have a fire? That is why Online backup solutions have become prevelant.

Today I saw a unique software package that I wanted to share with you. It is called Cucku. OK, funny name, but a very cool idea.

What if you could backup to other computers that are either in your building or across the internet? What if those backups were secured in such a way that you could backup onto a buddy's computer and they couldn't access your data. Would you let your buddy backup to your system as well?

It's Social Networking to a whole new level. You can find out more information at http://www.cucku.com/

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