The cloud is the future. Conspiracy theorists will abound, but the cloud is the future. I use hosted apps all over the place - not just Google - and by far I'm very happy. Google's rights grabs for books was bone-headed. But, it's not in their interest to piss off customers by screwing with your data. If I have to view ads in order to access free tools and services, I'll gladly do that. I use a variety of Firefox plug-ins anyway to block ads. The second that they launch G-Drive - the service-app that has been rumored for years now - I'll gladly back up every single piece of digital data I have to Google's servers - and I'll probably continue to use another competing back-up service too - just to be safe. Jeff Jeff Rutherford 413 475-0087 www.jeffrutherford.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20091029/36ff60d8/attachment.html