Showing posts with label worries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label worries. Show all posts

Sunday, 14 July 2013

Kim Kardashian Worries She'll "Go Crazy" Living With Kris Jenner

With her own home undergoing a massive renovation, Kim Kardashian had a few reservations about moving in with mom Kris Jenner while pregnant with daughter North West. In the July 14 episode of E!'s Keeping Up With the Kardashians, the 32-year-old reality star balks at the idea of bunking with her family -- and big sister Kourtney Kardashian backs her up.

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After Kim reveals she's looking at rental properties, her talk show host mom offers another option. "You don't want to be all the way on the other side and you need one of us," Jenner, 57, warns her pregnant daughter. "You're going to be isolated in Beverly Hills with a baby."

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"Live with me in this gorgeous house," Jenner continues. "That would be the perfect scenario."

Kim Kardashian worries she'll "go crazy" living with Kris Jenner -- and says she hates her mom's black toilet paper.
Kim -- who welcomed her firstborn with Kanye West five weeks early on June 15 -- says she hates her mother's "black and white" decor. "I can't take a shower in a black shower," she complains. "The toilet paper's black. I like to see what I'm sh-tting and what I'm wiping."

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Kourtney, 34, then chimes in, warning her sister, "The toilet paper also leaves little black dots in your vag." Jenner offers to buy white toilet paper, but her daughter is still on the fence. "I just know I'm going to get crazy and I'll go crazy living her," she says. "I don't know what to do."

Keeping Up With the Kardashians airs Sunday, July 14, at 9 p.m. EST on E!

Thursday, 11 July 2013

Dropbox update eases worries over offline access to business data

As every hapless teenager stranded in a dank cabin in the psychopath-ridden woods can tell you, your cell phone is useless if you don't have a signal. For business users, the stakes are just as high: Travel to a farflung corner of the world to meet with clients and "zero bars" is a distinct possibility. And God help you if you have to take a plane ride anywhere and aren't lucky enough to get on the handful of jets with onboard Wi-Fi.

While being unable to make calls, send emails, or check the news is certainly an inconvenience, the problem is compounded if you rely on cloud services to actually get work done. Storing data online and running apps that rely on a live Internet connection mean you can abruptly turn into an unproductive layabout when wireless service isn't available.

Hybrid cloud services have started to address the issue, and Dropbox has been leading the charge. Files stored via Dropbox are automatically stored both in the cloud and on your local machine. Changes made to one file are copied in the background when a connection is available, and synced up with all devices running the Dropbox software. Google Drive, SugarSync, and many other cloud storage services work about the same way.


That's a start, but it only addresses the very beginning of the problem. A growing number of services are designed to work exclusively over the Web, and if you're not connected, they simply don't run at all. (Think Facebook.) Well then, why not enable these apps and services to work in offline, hybrid mode, the way Dropbox works? Evernote does it. So does Gmail; it doesn't include all its features from top to bottom, but what it offers is good enough for most users.

Offline support is uncommon because coding this kind of software isn't easy. There are myriad issues to consider: What happens if you change a file in two places before re-syncing? How do you manage the unavoidable data file differences between, say, an iPhone and a Windows 8 PC? And good luck when you bring multiple users into the mix. Imagine five offline users working on a single document simultaneously, then trying to sync en masse. Nightmare. Who wants to try to code all of this stuff themselves?

Well, with the new API releases the company put out this week as part of its DBX developers conference, Dropbox has told the developers of the world that they don't have to. Without getting too far into the weeds, the new APIs mean that third-party developers can now use Dropbox to store program data instead of having to stash it on the user's hard drive or build their own cloud service to store it. That means you'll be able to work on a spreadsheet, draw a picture, or play a game on one device… then pick right back up where you left off on another, whether you're online or off.

With 100,000 apps already supporting Dropbox in some fashion, this isn't a pipe dream. Universal access to data from any device and robust offline support have the potential not just to revolutionize the way we work but to become expected, almost required components of any piece of software we use. As Dropbox CEO Drew Houston told TechCrunch, "Every app is going to be designed this way in the future and we wanted to get started on that now.” I can't wait.