Leno May be Fired: Why It€™s Time to Stop Pretending We Care

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Create Network Drive to Access Files on Dropbox, Google Docs, FTP & More

There are many clouds services available, some free while others charge you for the storage space. Some options you have are Dropbox, Google Docs, or even a personal FTP server. You will typically choose one and move on or use them all, some more effectively than others. This is the problem that Otixo, a new web appp, is trying to solve.

Otixo basically gives you an interface for managing all of your cloud services in one location. You can use it directly from your internet browser or from your Windows desktop.

At the moment it includes support for Dropbox, Google Docs, BOX.net, FTP accounts and WebDav. You can get access to files on all your cloud services with a single sign on, search across them, and moves files between them without downloading.

If you are Windows user, you can even mount your Otixo account as a network drive and manage all your accounts and files from your desktop. Before going further, first you need to sign-up for Otixo and connect your cloud services using its web application. Once you do that, follow these step-by-step instructions to setup the network drive:

Open My Computer and from the toolbar, select “Map Network Drive”.

A Dialog will appear. In that select a free drive letter you want to assign to the network drive. Then in the “Folder:” field, enter “https://app.otixo.com/webdav”. You can also optionally ask it connect every time you logon.

Press the “Finish” button and a new dialog should appear.

Enter your Otixo username and password, and press the “OK” button.

That’s it. You should see a new drive named “app.otixo.com” in “My Computer” under “Network Location.”

You can now open, edit, copy-paste, upload and delete your files in the cloud services just like your other files and folders on your computer. Each service is accessible as a folder in the drive. Whenever you add or remove any service on Otixo web app, the changes are instantly seen on your computer.

Very handy indeed. The only drawback I see thus far is a limited range of services offered,but since this is still a public beta we can expect to see other services in future. I personally would like to see support for Microsoft SkyDrive, or photo sharing website Picasa.

Otixo is a free service and you can sign up for it at the link below.

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Social media response of the day: O2 goes street

It’s not generally advisable to try and be down with the kids when you’re writing for a brand, but I’m letting O2 off for this, because it’s hilarious.

Nah Tunde, you don’t look like “an illiterate”. Not at all. Fam.

Tags: copy, copywriting, down with the kids, fam, good copy, Interesting, o2, online, social media, tone of voice, Twitter, Writing

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If Parents Were Honest About Christmas Gifts from Their Kids

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The 3 Creepiest Facts About the Real Santa Claus

We're all aware that Santa Claus is based on the very real St. Nicholas of Myra, correct? He was a 5-foot-tall Greek guy with a broken nose, he lived in modern-day Turkey around A.D. 200 to 300 and he was renowned for his generosity, his kindness to children, and generally behaving like the reigning champion of a hobo bare-knuckle boxing league.

"I wish you a knuckle sandwich, and a happy throat-punch."

But time warps all, of course. The Santa Claus we know nowadays is a stout, lily-white guy in a bizarre velvet suit who's loved by children for enslaving hundreds of Legolas' cousins. And truth be told, all St. Nick and Santa Claus have in common these days is the white beard.

Yes, the real Santa was truly a rough-and-tumble son of a bitch. His exploits may have been embellished over the years, but the guy was constantly in and out of jail and tortured. The fact that his face was pretty much a pulverized shank of lamb at his death gives validity to the hardness of his lifestyle, particularly that time he clocked a bishop in the face for saying that Jesus wasn't divine enough.

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Someone in Turkey even made a lovely fresco of this sucker punch.

Not only did he smack the bishop, but he did it in front of Emperor Constantine and so many other people that his holy fisticuffs became the stuff of legends. But bishop-slapping wasn't Nicholas' only claim to fame. Of all his strong opinions, none matched his hatred of paganism.

According to legend, Nick then personally oversaw the violent destruction of the Temple of Artemis. And as luck would have it, there were people who actually lived in the temple! So what happened when the now-homeless priests ran up to Nicholas and begged for mercy? "Go to hell's fire, which has been lit for you by the devil," he replied, his world-weary belly shaking like a bowl full of broken glass.

"Gimme that sword. You decapitate like a goddamn sissy."

St. Nick's done more for the wee ones of the world than to simply command his elven hive to build Tonka trucks. According to one fable, Nicholas met an innkeeper who butchered three kids and pickled them during a famine so he could try to pass them off as ham. After God's cosmic prodding led Nicholas to their corpses, he prayed to divinely stitch their little salty dismembered bodies back together.

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"From this day forth, you will be known as 'The Pickle Triplets' and possess all the powers of sodium."

We're not saying that you should build a trio of barfy gherkin golems on Christmas Eve instead of gingerbread men ... actually, fuck it, that's exactly what we're saying. And if you won't do that, at least don some Vlasic-soaked rags and dress up as St. Nick's jaunty archnemesis "The Cannibal Hotelier" to spook the neighborhood carolers with some briny pranks.

"SANTA SAYS 'HO-HO-HO!' I GO 'OH-OH-OH!'"

Santa Claus doesn't live in the North Pole. No, he lives all across Europe, in many different countries, a little bit here, a little there. You see, in 1087, Italian sailors stole St. Nicholas' remains from Turkey in a harrowing heist that involved hoodwinking some monks and escaping an angry mob of villagers. His holly-jolly bones were laid to rest in Bari, Italy, where they currently reside, much to the chagrin of Turkish Santaphiles.

To make matters more confusing, an abbey in Ireland claims to possess his body, and a bunch of random body parts said to belong to St. Surly are strewn all over the globe as relics. So if Santa doesn't get you what you want for Christmas this year, try writing to his tooth in Germany the next.

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"Dear molar, I want an Xbox."

Reuben Glaser created Little Face Mitt and occasionally writes for the AV Club. He's currently working on a wildly uncelebrated free e-book called "A Chris Christmas Carol." You can find him on Twitter.

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ZTE Grand S(Z753) Full Exposure Leaked:measuring only 6.9mm and comes with price tag of $450

The 5 inch smartphone joins that club of phones in which only HTC Droid DNA,Sharp SH930W,Oppo Find 5 and its brother ZTE Nubia Z5 are only members.

According to the previous information the phone is made of ceramic and featuring traditional Chinese style as well as being perfect for the fashionable set
5 inch Full HD Display1.5Ghz Quad Core qualcomm AP8064 CPU16GB Storage2GB RAM13Mpx Camera2500mAh BatteryAndroid 4.1 Jelly BeanWith this leaked images,it is now clear that the phone is not at all related to ZTE Grand Nubia Z5.ZTE Grand S will be launched at CES2013 with the price tag of 2799 yuan($450).Definitely with this high end specifications and the with this budget price,the world's fourth largest smartphone manufacturer will create serious trouble for all the smartphone manufacturers in the world.

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