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I've been proofing documents with the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API.
Now I want to start just uploading print files into my Mimeo account.
I added support for posting files to the Mimeo REST client.
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I was looking for a network device discovery tool.
I want something that will run at the command line on multiple platforms.
I came acrossFing from Overlook.
Fing is acommand line tool for network and ser...
I was attracted to my current job as the Mimeo Connect API evangelist because of the challenges associated with a print API.
You have a collision of a dying industry and a game changing new technology. I thought...this has to be a learning experience. So I pursued the job.
First thing I learned: Print isn...
As I'm working on different cloud printing solutions I am considering the practical use of these technologies in conjunction with Mimeo commercial printing.
One area I see a very practical use of cloud printing, is developing a commercial cloud print queu...
I came across a great walk through of how to deploy your code from GitHub automatically.
Having managed a large number of web applications derived from various code repositories, I see the value in this.
I used to write...
Rapportive, a social CRM service has added support for Bitbucket, GitHub, and Stack Overflow.
Rapportive adds a social CRM layer to Gmail using Goo...
Today is the first birthday of the Google Apps Marketplace, and what better time to talk about the significance of application ecosystems.
I would call 
A while back I was playing around with the Box.net API, I wanted to see what services they offered.
I created a set of
Amazon Web Services just released two pretty significationenhancementsto the Amazon EC2 infrastructure.
You can now:
Change Instance Type -This means that...
Amazon Web Services has partnered with JumpBox to deliver a suite of hosted applications using Amazon Web Services.
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Using AWS and Jumpbox you can launch a:
Cyberduck, the open source FTP client has made some pretty significant updates including a version for Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista & Windows 7.
Cyberduck has also added two more cloud storage providers:
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Mashape, the API framework and marketplace service provider has recently released some new features and resources for developers.
Additions include new language libraries and plugins:
Engineers in the UK are using 3D printing with a nylon powder to create a really cool, futuristic bicycle.
Guided by a comput...
I just had a new idea for a startup. I'm in love with everything about technology startups except actually starting another one myself.
So I kind of work the opposite of the rest of Silicon Valley, when I have an idea I just put it out there on the open Internet.
I'm reading 
Google launched a slick new Google Cloud Print Queue Manager. It allows you to manager your cloud printers and the print jobs in the queue.
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ePrint is a service from HP that allows printing to select HP printers over the Internet.
When an HP web connected printer registers it gets an email address. Since printers receive print jobs by email, this enables printing to any HP web enabled printer that is connected to the Internet.
ePrint enables print...
Google Cloud Print provides a printing platform that allow printers to be accessed over the Internet by mobile phone, tables and computers.
Google Cloud Print enables printing over the Internet to web enabled printers or older printers using a proxy software that users can installed on Windows, and soon Mac and Linux platforms.
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Cloud Printing is a...
I've been spending time learning about the three major platform we think about when we hear the term cloud printing.
Apple Airprint
HP ePrint
Google Cl...
Apple AirPrint enables printing on Apple products to HP printers over a wireless network.
Airprint enables printing without installing drivers or configuring a printer queue.
Apple products that support AirPrint are:
iPad (running iOS 4.2 or later)
iPod Touch (running iOS 4.2 or later)
iPhone (running iOS 4.2 or later)
Mac Computers Running ...
Google has enabled many of the same mobile editing capabilities in Google Docs, for Google Spreadsheets.
You can now edit Google Spreadsheets in 45 languages on Android, IPhone and IPad devices...
I like my new Google Profile. Its a cleaner, more organized version of its former self.
I see the Google Social Network coming together in slow motion around my existing Google ap...
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API code samples and software development kits (SDK) are among the most important tools for getting developers up and running with any API.
Providing complete sets of code samples for every area of an API and in as many programming languages as you can is important to a developer's (and an API's) success. With complete sets of code samples in a w...
I have been getting a lot of questions from users regarding how to manage their Google Cloud Printers.
To help guide users stumbling across my site, there are two types of...
One of the goals of any API is to catch the attention of developers and become a tool they depend on and integrate regularly into their applications.
If you build an API and release it into the wild -- even if it's high quality -- there are no guarantees the developers will immediately come.
Even the big players like
