tech·no·philes

Ever been a victim of a failed hard disk? I have .. and its not a pretty sight Had not my HDD monitoring s/w warned me about the impending failure I would have lost almost 8 years worth of data!! There hasn't been a formal study done (I don't trust the ones published by HD manufacturers) that anyone could call "truly comprehensive". What qualifies as comprehensive? A study collected from more than one hundred thousand disk drives, deployed in several types of systems. A combination of serial and parallel ATA consumer-grade hard disk drives, ranging in speed from 5400 to 7200 rpm, and in size from 80 to 400 GB in an active production environment. Who could do this better than Google. Read it and you'll be shocked! I've already started burning all my precious data onto DVDs. http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

Licensing issues allow limited number of MS Office installations. Online office portals are very popular and till now I hadn't come across anything close to Google Docs. Enter EditGrid It allows online collaboration that I dearly used to miss in Google Spreadsheets. Other USPs are: 1) User Contributed Templates 2) Chat 3) Remote Data (pull data from other sources) 4) Add-ons and many more... Here's how the workspace looks like: Please do comment about it.