So I finally migrated another part of my life onto Google’s servers, and I noticed several great things (as well as bad minor issues) with Blogger’s Custom Domain.

Here are the great things about it:

• Retain all of Blogger’s new features without messing with FTP on your domain
• Google hosts your blog for free! All you have to pay for is your domain
• You do not lose your Blog*Spot placement, preventing spammers from capitalizing on your efforts
• Google automatically forwards your Blog*Spot domain to your new one, so users visiting old posts go directly to the post on your domain

Here are some of the bad minor issues with it:

• Site not listed on the world wide web (compare InsideOrkut.com with www.InsideOrkut.com)
• Another user could claim your domain via Blogger, preventing you from using it (see my theory for details on my second thread response)
• Your Google Page rank drops (which means you’ll have to resubmit it everywhere again)

Now, in my opinion the good definitely out weighs the bad, and I would seriously recommend any serious blogger to consider switching over as it does have a way of making your site feel a little more professional.

Note: Is it me, or did Blogger just become cooler than WordPress?

Update: Inserted bullet points on “minor issues.”

I never thought I would ever say this, but it seems that Google (or rather Blogger) has once again reinvented the way blogging is done!

(Blogger Buzz) The new version of Blogger now supports using a custom domain for serving your blog. If you already own a domain named, say, mysite.com and want your blog to be served at that address instead of at a blogspot.com address, we can host your blog on that domain for you — for free. Your old Blog*Spot address will forward to your new custom domain, so the switch will be seamless for your readers.

I’ve already purchased several domains I would love to try this on (those being InsideOrkut.com, DarnellClayton.com, ColonyWorlds.com, IsraGood.com) and I will move my blog over to the self hosting later on today (after I get some sleep).

Is it me, or is Blogger really freakin’ cool!

Hmm…I’m definitely going to have to pick up one of these!

(Ars Technica) It seems the day of the 1-terabyte consumer hard drive has finally become a reality. Hitachi announced yesterday, just before the start of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, that it will be shipping a 1TB hard drive by the end of the first quarter in 2007. The drive will be the first of three that the company is expecting to release in 2007; the other two are aimed at video pros and the enterprise market. Those two will ship in the second quarter of the year.

The 3.5″ Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 will run at 7200 rpm, have a 32MB buffer, and be available as SATA 3.0Gb/s or Parallel-ATA 133. The company did not max out on areal density on the drives though; instead of trying to cram 250GB onto four platters, Hitachi opted to go with a 200GB-per-platter, five-platter approach. Hitachi’s director of market and product strategy Doug Pickford told PC World that “About 250GB per platter is the next bump on the areal density curve, but we’ve backed off from doing that in order to achieve higher reliability at this time.”

They say its selling for about $400 (or so) on the market. If only they could hook this up to an OQO, then I would have my dream machine.

(Hat Tip: Life Hacker)

I’ve fallen in love with DivShare, which is basically giving away free online storage with no limits!

More via their site:

You’re on DivShare – the free, fast file host for everyone.

We built this site in December 2006 to provide a simple and reliable way to show off photos, documents, music, and all your other creations. Whether you’re just posting one file or setting up an account and personalizing your download pages, it’s the web’s best way to put your stuff in the spotlight. And you know what else is cool? It’s all free.

They are already receiving a lot of positive feedback, and I may move all of my images from Flickr and Picasa to divShare in the near future. I wonder how long it will be until a mega company decides to buy them out?

Test

Update: This was just a test to see if my Verizon phone was able to publish to my blog.

It seems to have worked, although it will cost me ten cents a post.

The only bad thing is that I can not edit the labels via phone.