by: James A. Warholic

Wow! What a change is in store for us in the near future.

I always say that time seems to be moving faster but technology change is moving faster than the speed of light.

1. They say that technology doubles every eighteen months - OLD FACT.
2. Turn the search engine page. New search fact, it is impossible to keep up.

Overnight it seems like we have gone from computers that were super expensive to where now anyone can afford one. Prices on hardware components have provided a interesting situation. It seems as though every time an engineer thinks we have reached the limits of making the electronics smaller, faster, or more powerful, is blown out the door by the next new round of technology improvements.

With components such as memory and hard drives plus new super drives the information that can be stored will reach beyond what we can imagine. I remember when I thought 20 megabytes was a lot of memory. Now gigabytes and terabytes for hard drives are common place.

"Apollo, we have lift off!" The Petabyte disk drives. This size equals one million times a gigabyte or 10¹⁵ or 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. Those numbers are so large in fact that they are hard to comprehend exactly how large that is. Some naysayers have said this is a long way off, well you better look again.

So how is this going to help you?

First off, take a look at Google. They have blasted off on their email service that is out of this world. I have been using it for about two months now and I do not know what I would do with out it. I never ever, never ever, have to throw any emails away. I can always get to any email anywhere in the world.

Their anniversary gift to the world is to expand the storage capabilities beyond what anyone can imagine. Last year at this time the naysayers were saying that it was an April Fools joke from Google to offer one gigabyte of email. Well we are going to the moon. Next stop and beyond is the GOOGOLBYTE

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Labels: Hardware

by: James A. Warholic

Some of you know what P2P means but not everyone knows the tremendous online business applications for this web app.

First off take a look at the meaning. P2P stands for peer-to-peer. The most well know of these are involved in the online file sharing of music. In laymans terms it involves the ability of one computer sharing or transferring of information from one to the other. Transferring of information can be over the Internet or within, on an "Intranet" (internal server). It can involve any number of computers or login to a central server where a database of info is stored. In the true sense of peer-to-peer no one computer is the host client or server. Peer-to-peer allows all computers to operate as both.

A simple form of peer-to-peer that is used by the "Personal Data Assistant" group is when you perform a sync operation. Syncing a PDA to a computer involves the transfer of info from one to the other. In this example the computer or the PDA is updated and synced with the same info.

Other technology applications for this would involve online storage of information, backups of your computer system online, or the sharing of important files with a business partner or friend without having to email it to them. Peer-to-peer networks can be set up in a secure environment where only the person with an identification password and authorization would have access to the files.

Imagine, just being able to place a file in a folder on your desktop and have it show up on your associates computer on the other end without having to wait. Or, being able to have a backup that is updated immediately with no effort on the users part. Imagine how easy this would make it for doing work any place any time. Well, that is a reality today.

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Labels: Internet, Software