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Don’t you hate your email’s Inbox greets you with tons of unimportant messages such as spam emails?  It’s an old story, but it’s a prevalent one which you wish there is a simpler solution to it.  The folks at Google is planning to roll out something known as Priority Inbox for Gmail, and this feature attempts to unclutter your Gmail’s Inbox.

You can compare this new feature to the most primitive artificial intelligence!  Why?  Priority Inbox is like an assistant to you as it sorts out the emails it thinks you want to read, and it stuffs the unimportant emails into the everything else category.  Something that you think you should read later, Priority Inbox stuffs such emails into the category where all emails would be starred.  The more you use the Priority Inbox, the more it learns of your behavior in categorizing which email is important.  In a sense, Priority Inbox can only get better at helping you out in sorting the email messages in your Gmail account.

Google says it won’t roll out Priority Inbox for Gmail users till next week!  Google has some more testing to do for the feature needs to be better than now as it rolls out for the mass.  Check out the video below to see what is Priority Inbox in a fun way!

There are rumors that Google is in deep negotiations with popular movie studios to bring more rental movies to everyone!  Rumors or not, Apple is doing the same thing!  What is the fuss?  Not much, really!  All I can see is that Netflix still rules the world!  Why?  Rumor has that Google’s will charge $5 for streaming a movie to you!  Good luck with that price Google!  I’m looking at Apple too with my eyes rolling in the sockets!  Come on, Netflix has outdone everyone here!  Netflix is only charging people $10 a month or $12 a month if you throw in Blu-ray DVD in the mailbox, but the coolest thing is that you get to stream unlimited instant play movies on your TV (through the uses of PS3, set top boxes, Wii, etc…), computers, and laptops!  Apple and Google are going the AOL Time Warner route?  Source.

Some people love the idea of setting up a home server themselves!  It’s all great and fun do it yourself kind of mentality, but it’s not so practical for people who have a hard time of just keeping their computers from getting infected with viruses.  I’m not saying the computer geniuses don’t get infected with computer viruses, because everyone does at some points of their virtual life.  OK, I’m not arguing that there is someone out there hasn’t had a virus in their whole virtual life!  The point that I’m trying to make is that not everyone is so technical in setting up their own home servers so they can share files with friends and themselves when they on the road.

Some people may not even want to set up their own home servers since there are services such as Dropbox which allows people to have around 2GB of free space!  Uploading contents to such service is a breeze!  Whenever I have an urge of updating a piece of article that I’m working on, all I have to do is to go to my Dropbox folder locates on my computer which communicates directly with Dropbox’s server — updating a local file means it too updates the very same file on Dropbox’s server.  A little piece of heaven don’t you think?  Wherever we go, we can always have an access to our files on Dropbox as long we remember the password to our Dropbox account!  Dropbox even has a web interface where we don’t have to install its software on our computers or a friend’s computer just to access our files.

2GB of free space sometimes does not cut it!  Heavy content users who happen to be heavy sharers too know that sharing 2GB of contents or less equal to licking the cake but not eating it.  These users want to share their whole library of congress to their friends!  How about sharing to themselves on the road!  Yes, we all know there are lonely nights when we are by ourselves in our hotel room watching craps on TV!  Don’t even think about the porns, because we have to pay some money when we order such things in the hotel.  By the way, porns are bad for your health!  Get a girlfriend instead!  Anyway, the whole idea is to be able to access our files with breeze, and we don’t have to pay for any service to do so.  Yet, we all know setting up a home server is a solution, but only the geeks know their ways around those technical nuts and bolts.

Don’t worry!  Have you ever heard of Pogoplug?  I never have the need for a Pogoplug, because I’m one of those geeks who can set up a home server!  Someone out there probably doesn’t know how, and Pogoplug is a perfect solution for such a person!  Reading up on it from various reviews and blogs, it seems Pogoplug is easy as hooking up the Pogoplug to an electrical outlet plus connect an Ethernet cable from its Ethernet port to a router’s Ethernet port!  The user interface is quite neat and nice, but you have to download a software on Pogoplug’s website.  People say it is simple to set up since the instruction comes with the package.  People say it takes only a few minutes to set up the Pogoplug.  When you’re done setting up your Pogoplug, you’ll have the ability to plug in many external hard drives to its USB ports.  Imagine you can always buy more than one USB hubs, and then connecting a dozen of external hard drives to those USB ports on the USB hubs.

In my opinion, without the need of messing around with static IP(s) and setting up a home server, Pogoplug is a go for new computer users who want to have their own home servers!  Pogoplug acts as a home server which connects many external hard drives to deliver many Terabytes of server space (hard drive space).  New computer users won’t have a problem of storing tons of open source movies and freely share video clips and open source music files and their own articles and others; just so you know, storing means sharing!  Pogoplug is so easy, I think even I’m geeky, it feels like I should go with Pogoplug!  Why?  There are times I just hate to get down and dirty — that’s to get under the hood of things.  Why not plug, clicks, and go?

Pogoplug is now cheaper than before!  From the look on my web store, it’s only $47.99 for a brand new Pogoplug.  The original price for Pogoplug was $129.99.  The Pogoplug method is not cheap since we have to buy external hard drives!  Otherwise, what’s the point, right?  Without external hard drives, Pogoplug is just a piece of hardware which does nothing besides waiting for we to plug the external hard drives into its USB ports.  Buying a Pogoplug, we must know that it’s just a first step to have one’s own home server setup, but we’re doing it the easy way!  No need to mess around with Apache, PHP, Linux, user permissions, firewall ports, static IP(s), FTP, Samba, and the likes.

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