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Kindle Web App

Mark — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 04:43:19 +0000

Amazon has releast a new HTML5 Kindle app for Chrome and Safari. Now you don’t have to buy a Kindle reader or get eye-strain reading on your phone. You can read books right inside your web browser on your computer. Amazon maked this web application to get around Apple’s wanting a huge percentage of their Kindle book sales when purchased from an iPad app. Amazon wasn’t having it so they made us this great web app to get around that requirement. Get the Kindle app Chrome here.

Cloud Music Wars

Mark — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:30:17 +0000

The war to be the best streaming music site is on. In April the announcement of Amazon’s Cloud Player and last month Google’s cloud based music service Beta called Google Music. I sign up for Cloud Player. I also requested an invitation to the Google service last month and just got the invitation today and logged in. After messing with it for a few minutes I found Google Music to be easier then Amazon because you can automatically add a lot of free songs so you can begin streaming right away. Amazon you had to wait until you upload some songs to the Cloud Drive or buy some from Amazon. Granted you don’t own the free music but who cares. It’s free! Of the two Cloud Player and Google Music I think Google Music will be a better experience for most people. I take issue with one thing. Google and Amazon have a uploader program that is for Windows and Mac only and I’m a Linux user. Fortunately Amazon has a web based uploader, Google only has the program, so I have to switch to a Windows Machine to get my on songs on Google Music.

Happy listening!

Jungle Disk

Mark — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:00:16 +0000

Jungle Disk is an application that lets you store files and backup data securely to Amazon.com’s S3 ™ Storage Service. S3 does not have an application So Jungle Disk provides you with one. Jungle Disk creates a network drive in your computer and you just drag folder and files over or you can setup an automatic backup. I’ve been using Jungle Disk foryears and it is outstanding. Jungle Disk use to cost $20 and you could use it on as many computers as you wished but now I think it is some sort of monthly subscription. I think it’s $3 dollars a month. The data backed up via Amazon S3 is very cheap as well.

Gladinet Cloud Desktop

Mark — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:28:30 +0000

Thanks to Zack who commented to my SkyDrive post for this one!

Gladinet is the future! It is Web 3.0! Gladinet is a great little application that brings all of your online storage to your desktop as virtual drives. Use online storages (Not only SkyDrive but ADrive, Google Docs, Amazon S3 , and others.) as if they were local folders on your computer. Access local folders on your home computer remotely as if they were right there (only with standard version which is only available by invitation right now). But you can download free version now.

There is so much more in this appliction I’ll let this video tell you about it.

JungleDisk and S3

Mark — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:37:52 +0000

RULE #1: If you don’t have two copies of a file on different media you don’t have the file. This being the case you have to back-up continuously. Backing up to an external drive or network drive is a good way to do this, but what happens of there’s a fire and all of your computers and backups are destroyed? All of those family photos and important business documents gone.

A great way to back-up is to a server over the Internet. One of the best services to do this is Amazon’s S3 using Jungledisk. JungleDisk is the interface for S3. S3 just gives you the storage space and JungleDisk turns that space into a drive on your computer. Jungle disk cost $20 to use forever. As many computers as you like. All the upgrade for the software as long as the the company exist.

Amazon charges you a very small fee for storage and a somewhat larger fee for the transfer. There will be one large charge (though still very affordable) It will be even better now because they are dropping the price November.

The newest version can be used to backup your Windows Home Server.