Amazon Cloud Player Video Review
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Here’s my video review of the Amazon Cloud Player. Check it out!
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Amazon Cloud Player
Update: Make sure to check out the video review of this service at http://www.phuoc.com/2011/09/29/amazon-cloud-player-video-review/
I’m in the process of uploading my entire music collection to my Amazon Cloud Player. It’s over 1.5 TB of music and 100,000′s of songs. Amazon tells me that there’s no limit to my cloud drive for music but let’s see if this is true. The other question will be how long it would take to upload over 1.5 TB of data through my broadband connection… it’ll take a while. Cox says I only have 200 GB of data a month on my plan but that they won’t charge me if I go over (which I’ve already gone over). Let’s see what happens.
The next iteration will be to allow you to store your movies in the cloud… now that would be cool but who would offer me terabytes of free space?!
My iPad
My iPad is quickly becoming an indispensable tool. I take it everywhere and use it everyday. I would have to say it’s one of the few technology items that I’m getting full use of.
Some of the apps that I use include the Google apps, Wikipedia Offline, Note Taker HD, iBooks, various games and Numbers. Besides the Apple provided apps that is. It’s useful to have to much information at your finger tips. I may jump on the iPad 3 when it comes out and hand my iPad 1 to my brother or something.
Google’s Free DNS Service
Google’s offering a new free service that I don’t think many have heard about. It’s new only because I just discovered it; not that it’s recent or anything. It’s the Google DNS service. Recently I’ve been having a lot of problems with my ISP’s (Cox Communications High Speed Internet) Internet connection, primarily with DNS lookups. Oftentimes it would return an error saying that the name can’t be resolved. In a few minutes it would clear up but it was sure annoying.
About the same time this was happening, I got Vonage service. This made me think that the problem was with Vonage since it sits between my router and cable modem. However, even after having re-arrange things by plugging the cable modem directly into the router (like I had it before I followed Vonage’s instructions), I was still experiencing this issue.
That got me to Googling about and I was lead to a variety of free DNS service as an alternative to what my ISP was providing. One was Open DNS which I tried for a day but it was too slow. Then I discovered Google DNS. The main servers are at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 – very esay IPv4 addresses to remember! I changed it on my router’s setup web page to use these DNS servers instead of the ISP’s default. So far things are great. Web browsing seems to be a whole lot faster.
I’ll report back on this issue to see if the name resolution issue goes away entirely.