How I automated my backups to Amazon S3 using s3sync
Amazon has made an effort in the past two years promoting their Amazon Web Services (AWS). They are unconventional but appeal through the sheer simpleness and power. Large web services like Smugmug.com use Amazon S3.
Introduction to S3
Honkiat.com has a nice detailed beginners guide to Amazon S3, and [...]
The United Nations UNESCO has opened “The World Digital Library”. It has a substantial amount of original work of historic significance, and because it is funded by the UN (that means all of us) there are no issues with copyright.
One of UNESCO’s goals is to preserve historic and cultural monuments and to do so, opening [...]
Are you fed up with Google scanning through all of your (digital) life? Internet startup Tonido is getting your Web 2.0 experience back to where it belongs: on your own systems. Lifehacker has a nice article about this new start-up, and if it delivers, it just might be a next big thing.
Although in beta the website [...]
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Also tagged Google, Hardware, internet, OSX, PC, software, sync, Ubuntu, web 2.0, Windows, Windows 7
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Techcrunch has a post about a security breach at Google Docs: “Google Privacy Blunder Shares Your Docs Without Permission“. It seems more of a problem than you’d expect as Techcrunch says:
In a privacy error that underscores some of the biggest problems surrounding cloud-based services (…)
Privacy is a problem in so-called cloud-based computing. Also Google still [...]
In these slow financial times getting out your best on the web might be a good shot. Personally I see activity on sites like LinkedIn soar. Old classmates suddenly want to connect and all profiles start to look better and slicker. This includes getting your picture on Web 2.0 right.
I found a website with a [...]
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Also tagged Blog, branding, maatschappij, merk, netwerk, Nieuwe tag toevoegen, personal image, presentatie, society, web 2.0
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zaterdag, februari 21, 2009
As anyone knows, high-tech gear can have some problems of its own. Some common problems have unusual solutions - something an engineer would never think about. These are called “Folk remedies” and the New York Times has an article about them.
Next to the solutions mentioned in the article, I can mention some I know of:
rubbing [...]
vrijdag, februari 20, 2009
The mobile web anno 2009 is comparable to the desktop web of 1998; at least, thats what Jakob Nielsen says. His opinion is valued because he is an authority on usability and has a Ph.D. on human-computer interaction.
The Nielsen’s Law is named after him and states that home bandwith doubles every 21 months. Because this [...]
zondag, februari 15, 2009
In a previous post I wrote about my setup using the iBlue 747 device. Today I stumbled upon another method using a Nokia smartphone with S60 operating system.
The post on the Mac.sis blog talks about the way you can geotag all your photos on your Mac using a Nokia N82 phone with nothing but free [...]
De meeste dingen worden gekocht om een probleem op te lossen. Maar veel zaken worden ook gekocht terwijl het nog niet helemaal zeker is waar het nu precies goed voor is. Daar wordt ook onderzoek naar gedaan, zo valt te lezen in dit artikel in de New York Times:
Among his data-driven findings: American consumers have [...]
vrijdag, januari 30, 2009
Houdah software is gekomen met een manier om wel heel gemakkelijk om te gaan met “electronisch papier”. Met ACTPrinter kan je met “printen naar iPhone” documenten in één keer op je iPhone kwijt. Met de app ACTPrinter voor iPhone heb je een en ander dan direct bij de hand. Lees er meer over in het [...]