Public downloads will be migrated from Dropbox to Mega?

What the hell surely had happened to Dropbox? It seems that they're planning to update the Terms of Service starting March 24th. The first part surely prevents anyone from making any lawsuit against them and we don't know if this is kind of bullshit or not for whatever reason. Also, how are they going to solve the cases in the future with the move that is said to be a faster way? By using arbitration, of course, to settle disputes between you and the company.
Second is that how the company will handle requests made by government agencies for information about the customers. The company claims that they won't collect your personal information to third parties as they may swear or something and they won't store ads in your stuffs you store in your online storage.
But then, it appears that that will not be enough to protect your data from being affected by the spies. It seems that your Dropbox service can still be accessed by the government agencies on their own accord for whatever stupid shit they're doing. Also, it seems that any platform using Xbox Live today is unsafe as well probably due to that service being affected by the same bullshit.
Now, here's my plan after seeing that news. The future downloads of my stuffs from my blogs will be stored on my Mega account. Right now, the migration is still at the beginning stage as there are so many stuffs I made and published to Dropbox. But by migrating them, what will happen to the optional download links on my YouTube videos then? Also, all the download links from Dropbox to Mega will be somewhat applied to my Wordpress blog while the Dropbox download links will still be on my Blogger blog.

Office documents on Office 365 Final Version

As we already know, the preview versions of all the Office 365 products had already expired and it's going to be time to buy the final versions of Office 365 products like they were already available. So, when you install Office 365, you get to see the Welcome to Office video. I don't know if that video is updated or not for the final version but it should be to reflect the title.
Now, here came an irritating part. For some reason, the applications decided to jam/hang on me due to that STUPID CONNECTION TO Office 365 and Skydrive stuffs. WHAT WAS THAT TECHNICAL PROBLEM ALL ABOUT WHEN TRYING TO EDIT OR SAVE A DOCUMENT ONLINE? In that case, I had already decided to edit the Office documents stored in my Dropbox storage INSTEAD! Even worse was that the Office documents I've been using were not able to be synchronized properly. That freaking Office Upload feature, it wouldn't do any uploading feature let alone the Skydrive doing all the work.
At least, the new Skydrive doesn't give me whatever technical problems because it functions the same way as Dropbox does and especially for the new Skydrive site that allows you to browse the files online but if you try to work on the Office documents stored in your company's Office 365/Skydrive online as a team, I don't know if the technical problems will surely annoy you or some sort. Better still, use Skydrive for storage purposes while using Dropbox for synchronization and document editing purposes in business.
Another irritating problem when editing documents is that interface keeps animating when the window is not that large or wide enough and when you're editing certain parts of the documents.
I don't know if the bugs are fixed in the final version and I will be buying Office 365 Home Premium or not one day but that has been so much of beta testing for me that new bugs can continue to annoy the beta testers upon detecting them and the developers are being reported regarding them and asked to fix them.

Going paperless this year

As discovered from Engadget, we had decided to go paperless this year and that there will be no more plans and intentions for printing my stuffs in the future. Concepts, sketches, storyboards and other stuffs will be done digitally and stored on the digital storages.

One of the already familiar technologies is Google Drive from Google in which we can use that for storing whatever documents we can have there but I surely have other cloud storages such as Skydrive, Box, DropBox and even more. Sure, why do we want to write and draws on the paper like materials when we already have the digital documents and why do we need to buy even more printing papers for printing stuffs? Two years ago, I got my ID money wasted on printing my Ipad cover design which was already unnecessary in the first place. Thanks for that stupid waste of my time like that.

Online fax is another useful thing for business in the future as real faxes waste papers and the inks are really expensive for printing stuffs. You can use HelloFax to send 50 pages of fax per month but then, this is for business purposes anyway as there is no reason to use one outside of business and especially when you need to manage your bills online which may be useful when you want to buy stuffs online.

E-Signatures are what you use in the E-mail clients and I hope that you should take some time to come up with one such signature needed for both business and personal use.

Lastly, you can try to create the online expense report as well as to send online invoices and receive payment online. I have no idea what’s with the fifth and sixth features but very soon, we’ll get to use them in business industry to save the environment.

DropBox Ver 2.0 for IOS

This update is gonna be a major one for the IOS and here are the following features:

• Updated Photos experience: You can scroll through the photos and pick the one you want to display. On the Ipad, the left pane is the Photos pane similar to the one on the Iphone and Ipod Touch and even better, there’s also the secondary pane for displaying the photo while retaining the first pane. When you preview the photos, you can choose to email, send a text or Facebook message, share to Facebook and even Tweet. It’s a nice opportunity to share with your friends on social networking sites. Even better is that they have included the speedy scroller. What the hell is that and how can this work on the mobile devices? Will this feature divide the number of photos into the respective groups?
• Well, I had the Camera Roll synchronized to my DropBox storage so for every new photo taken, it will be synchronized. But with Version 2.0, there is a feature that allows you to make a folder and upload to specific folders.
• Lastly, they had gotten rid of the text labels on the tabs in favor of the simple iconography. The icon is changed as well for the simplified future.

The update will be initiated on my IOS device and explored in a few moments right after this blog post.

DropBox Chooser

DropBox Chooser is the new way to let you access the data in your DropBox storage from any web application and keep them updated. There was a feature that you could share from Dropbox inside Facebook Groups and with the Dropbox Chooser, there will be a similar feature available for other app developers.

Skydrive usage has doubled

Six months ago, they had released the first sync apps for Skydrive which make it easy to view and manage your personal Skydrive from Windows Explorer in Windows and Finder in Mac OSX. Now, the storage has been doubled. Other updates improve the app feature capabilities for smartphone devices that improve on how you access Skydrive across different devices.

With yesterday’s release of the update, you can select which folders from Skydrive are synced similar to other online storage services like DropBox where you can select which folder to synchronize. You can also share stuffs to various social networking sites.

Lastly, for Android users, they have added a few improvements such as uploading all types of files from SD cards, renaming folders and files and custom sort orders for every view.

Office 15 reached RTM

They might have signed off on the RTM build of Office 15 but what about the performance of PowerPoint when there are so many advanced stuffs on the slides? You know, I tried out working on Zigg-Zagg PDA PPT Animation with PowerPoint 15 Beta but the whole thing is unstable that I decided to stick back to Office 2k10 version of PowerPoint to do the work. Thankfully, Office 15 is not shameful a lot compared to Windows 8 which is going to be a development catastrophe. Everything in Office 15 is Metro-ized and that means it’s completely clean and fluid but the same cannot go to Windows 8 in which we still see some some glassy stuffs and that’s not fluid enough. It’s more like getting technically worse if not, even more unstable no matter how simple things can look. At least, Windows Phone 7.5 is even more fluid than the original Windows Phone 7 as it still contains some elements which are not even fluid yet. However, only mobile version of Office 2k10 is NOT considered fluid like this perfectly so hopefully Windows Phone 8 should have the next version of Office Mobile but still, this is what a fluid product should be like.

With cloud technology, it looks like we’re entering the future with Office 15 and it may be the same with Skydrive as both Windows 8 Metro app and desktop app although there will be no signs of easier synchronization for Cloud Storage apps if you’re using a tablet as using the desktop app of Skydrive on tablets may be difficult to interact. Who knows if you can synchronize the local photos stored on the tablet to Skydrive which may mean synchronizing the photos that can be open in Photos app to Skydrive just like Camera Upload folder for Dropbox for smartphones. Camera Upload folder for Dropbox is somewhat a special folder for storing synchronized photos you take and that’s pretty brave and if Skydrive can do the same with Office documents and photos in special ways, that will be a good thing.

Office 15 will be planned to be released in general in the first quarter of next year. Starting October 19, customers purchasing Office 2k10 from local retailers or resellers will receive the new Office for free upon availability and speaking of next year’s release of Office 15, it sounds kind of bullshit though that Windows RT users will end up getting the prototype version of Office 15 for Windows RT. We can still use Office 2k10 in the meantime but for Windows RT users, this is in-excusable.

For business users, there will be roll-out of new capabilities to Office 365 Enterprise Customers in the next service update starting in November through general availability. Sure, Office 15 had recently reached RTM so the release may be kind of safe but even then, this is one month too late as if Windows RT business users will have to wait until a month to get the final version of Office for Windows RT. Volume Licensing customers will get the product on December 1st while the IT professionals and developers will be able to download the final version via their TechNet or MSDN subscriptions by mid-November.

Overall, the business users of Windows RT may be patient enough to wait but the same cannot go for other users of Windows RT as waiting for next year is insane. Perhaps the future is still not fluid like this.

Dropbox in Europe is leaked

Yesterday, users in certain parts of Europe were reporting on the Dropbox forums saying that they couldn't log in and were receiving the spam mails from online gambling sites which was a really bad technical incident. Luckily, the Dropbox company was starting the investigation based on the report and found out that the outage was incidental and not caused by any external subject. What was the reason for the outage? Did someone trip on the cables or something? Did someone leave behind the important security feature off and not on? If the important security features are not turned on and implemented improperly, the bad chances are that there will be signs of compromising of the websites themselves holding the database of the users and their data.