Looking to upgrade to a new LED monitor? NewEgg has the Acer S211HLbd 21.5” 5ms LED-Backlight LCD Monitor on sale today and tomorrow for $119 with promo code EMCNENB22, shipped free.
Includes VGA and DVI input ports & cables.
Amazon has the same monitor for $139, so this is a pretty great deal.
Grab it while it lasts.
It’s been a long wait, but the wait is over: Ivy Bridge is here.
You can now order seven of the 3rd Gen Intel Core desktop processors, four Core i5 models and three Core i7. If you’re going with a Core i5, you’ll probably want the Core i5 3570k ($249, Model BX80637I53570K), which is the most easily overclockable. Prefer an i7, and the Core i7 3770k ($349, Model BX80637I73770K) is likely best, and for the same reason. If you don’t care about overclocking, then any of the other models will do fine.
Amazon.com and NewEgg have all of the new processors in stock and ready to ship tomorrow for delivery as early as Tuesday. Both retailers are selling each of the new CPUs for the same price, which will likely fall in the coming weeks. But if you want one, order now; the first stocks of these processors probably won’t last long.
Google Drive. Dropbox. SkyDrive. While all interesting and worthwhile in their own ways, stripped to their cores these three competing services all work more or less the same way: create a folder, drop stuff into it, and keep the folder and its contents synced between computers and the Cloud, and accessible from the web or mobile devices.
But what if you need something more flexible?
What if – like me – you already have folders on your desktop(s) and laptop(s) you need to keep synced across computers – and even platforms – without having to consolidate them into “drop-boxes”? What if you want Folder A – as is – on your PC synced with Folder B on your Mac, and Folder C – as is – on your Mac synced Folder D with your PC, and to have changes made to folders on either system synced with the other?
Sadly, none of the aforementioned services can do this without changing your existing file structure.
For keeping project files, development workspaces, and existing file structures in place and in sync, there’s only one service I’ve found that gets the job done: SugarSync.
In this article, I’ll show you how to use SugarSync to keep existing files and folders synced across different computers, be they Windows PCs or Macs, and backed-up in the Cloud. And, if those folders don’t exceed 5.5GB or so in total space, you won’t even have to pay for the privilege.
I’ve been a SkyDrive users for years, which is to say I’ve had an account and tinkered with it from time to time. Its 25GB of free online storage was generous, but without syncing or integration with Windows or the Mac OS, also largely useless. I have, though, been a daily and evangelistic user of Dropbox, a service that – perhaps more than any other – has changed the way I’ve worked over the last few years. Dropbox was what SkyDrive should have been from the jump.
But I’m happy to report that Microsoft today unveiled major, but not surprising, changes to SkyDrive that make it not only useful, but a service that Dropbox will actually have to compete with. Competition is good, though, so I’m happy not only to report the changes that Microsoft has made to its online storage service, but also improvements that will surely come from Dropbox as it responds to Microsoft’s seismic SkyDrive revamp.
Here’s what’s changed with SkyDrive:
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