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  • We evaluated the mini-PCs in their standard configurations for various performance attributes, such as file-transfer speed, screen quality (in bright light and pitch dark), and battery [...] 3 Comments

    2010 April « 2010

  • The free version has no email capability, and the app doesn't support common file-transfer services like Dropbox or SugarSync.

    Working In Word, Excel, PowerPoint on an iPad Walter S. Mossberg 2012

  • Had I bought a title off Google to move to the B&N device, I would have been subjected to a fussy file-transfer procedure, required by Google's Adobe-supplied DRM, that involves installing a copy of Adobe Digital Editions, opening the book in that free program, then employing that program to sideload the book on the Nook.

    Google launches e-book store (updated with first-look review) Rob Pegoraro 2010

  • Had I bought a title off Google to move to the B&N device, I would have been subjected to a fussy file-transfer procedure, required by Google's Adobe-supplied DRM, that involves installing a copy of Adobe Digital Editions, opening the book in that free program, then employing that program to sideload the book on the Nook.

    Google launches e-book store (updated with first-look review) Rob Pegoraro 2010

  • Especially since the Swisscom service is so goddamned awful that they cut you off after 250MB of file-transfer, which means that I've already had to pay again today.

    Boing Boing: October 16, 2005 - October 22, 2005 Archives 2005

  • “What this ‘product’ does is block access to a file-transfer protocol that is widely used in many different fields, from providing Congressional hearings footage to delivering urgently needed software like the Windows XP Service Pack 2, to shipping entire operating systems like the many Linux distros that circulate via BT,” says a boingboing post here.

    Fallacy as ‘fact’ 2004

  • Unfortunately, the included Easy Studio File Manager file-transfer software is buggy, and never seemed to work properly on my Windows 2000-based machine.

    Samsung’s p777 almost musical 2005

  • All traffic into or out of the ISP passes through the MediaSignature, and when a transfer of a song is identified, MediaSignature generates a fingerprint from the song-in-transit and compares it to the list of known fingerprints; if the song appears on the blacklist, the file-transfer is stopped.

    Boing Boing: January 27, 2002 - February 2, 2002 Archives 2002

  • “What this ‘product’ does is block access to a file-transfer protocol that is widely used in many different fields, from providing Congressional hearings footage to delivering urgently needed software like the Windows XP Service Pack 2, to shipping entire operating systems like the many Linux distros that circulate via BT,” says a boingboing post here.

    Fallacy as ‘fact’ 2004

  • Two-way file-transfer: Virtually every other MP3 player has had its design bowlderized by the music industry, made incapable of moving files off its drive to stop people from sharing their collections; with the iPod, Apple has shipped a device that works as a drive, a swapper, and a player iTunes: This is the best-designed app of any description that I've ever used, and it's the native control-app for the iPod

    Boing Boing: October 21, 2001 - October 27, 2001 Archives 2001

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