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 [...]
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, toepassing, Ubuntu, Windows, Windows 7
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So you have a lot of email and you’d like to cut down on time to reply. Lifehacker has a quick tip: fool people to believe you just emailed them from your mobile phone and you’re done with a simple line of text. They took it from a post on smarterware that took it from [...]
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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dinsdag, februari 24, 2009
Today I noticed an article in the New York Times about “The Deep Web”. It isn’t some kind of Sci-Fi fantasy but a term to describe the data “hidden” inside web sites. Think of it as crawling the data inside an airport’s front page.
It isn’t completely “undiscovered”. Google has some projects to address this; Google [...]
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 [...]
De Sawse weblog heeft een heel aardige collectie met foto’s gemaakt “Just at the right time”. Kijk en oordeel zelf!
zaterdag, januari 31, 2009
’s Zaterdag was Google een uur lang in het geheel niet bereikbaar. Het bleek dat er een foutje geslopen was in een lijst van malafide servers die Google van stopbadware.org
koopt, zo meldt Tweakers.net in een artikel.
Sinds een en ander bekend is blijkt de website van stopbadware.org zelf ineens niet meer goed bereikbaar. Immers, iets dat [...]
maandag, januari 26, 2009
Wordpress leek wat langzaam, en met elke versie lijkt het toch wéér wat langzamer te gaan. Dat kan echter anders:
Dit weblog geeft aan dat er veel cacheable is en dat dat de website aanzienlijk kan versnellen
Dit weblog geeft ook andere, meer inhoudelijke mogelijkheden aan om Wordpress te versnellen
Wordpress zelf geeft tips over hoe de performance [...]