"Don't Be Evil"

Sticking with its well-established plan to be on the side of right, Google has one-upped its competition yet again. No longer happy to be the email provider with just "one gigabyte" of space, the company's Gmail service has raised the bar once more. Users will see their free storage double to 2GBs with a yet-to-be-determined amount of additional storage added daily..."with no plans to stop." This is certainly exciting news and you can read more about it here.

UPDATE: It appears that Yahoo! and Google have merged!!! You can access the Yagoohoo!gle search portal at this secret location.



To celebrate this awesome news, I will be giving away Gmail invitations to everyone who posts a response to this update (while supplies last). Just be sure that your email address is included.



The movie industry has been trying - for some time - to come up with a truly effective way to provide movies for download, but none of the current services have really hit the mainstream yet. Most feel that an "iTunes for Hollywood" can be created, so Sony is trying to do just that.

"We want to set business models, pricing models, distribution models like (Apple Computer CEO Steve) Jobs did for music, but for the film industry," Michael Arrieta, senior vice president of Sony Pictures, said at the Digital Hollywood conference."

Currently, however, there are a lot of hurdles to overcome, including copy protection and a lack of compatible consumer devices. I'm confident, though, that we'll be seeing some sort of service rolled out within the next year and I can only believe it will begin with the PSP. Already, Sony has a section on its Connect.com website directed at PSP owners wanting to download video clips. One can imagine this section expanding until it encompasses entire films, music videos and educational content. Now, we'll have to see if it all comes to fruition.

While I'm on the topic of the PSP, I might as well share the news that there is a new update to "PSPhoto that will allow you to batch-convert image files from directories or ZIPs or RARs." Download it here.

Happy Birthday To My Wife

Today's update is merely to share the news that it's my wife's birthday. To celebrate, we're heading over to the Daly City Todai for some all-out eating, which will then be followed by some delectable Coldstone ice cream. I can't wait!



This year, the theme of the presents I got her is "practicality". Sure, I like to throw in some generally fun stuff for good measure, but not too much of it. To be honest, I normally pride myself in coming up with some great present ideas, but this year had me a bit stumped. In the end, though, I feel I was able to get some creativity in there, but not as much as I would have liked.

Regardless, it all just boils down to her enjoying today. That's the most important thing, right? I certainly think so.