I mentioned in the post Cloud Storage Overview that there are some services where you can store your precious files via cloud based storage (on the Internet). Here are a couple of options that will create a virtual drive on your computer as if it was an actual drive. Dropbox is a service that gives [...]
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Virtual Drives
Posted: November 6, 2009 in Web 2.0Tags: cloud, cloud-computing, drive, Internet, storage, web, web 2.0
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Mint News
Posted: September 28, 2009 in Web 2.0Tags: cloud, cloud-computing, financial, Mint, PFM, web, web 2.0
On August 8th I made a post Free Personal Finance Managers. Since August 8th a lot has changed. Mint has now been purchased by Intuit (makers of Quicken and Quicken Online). So where does that leave us? For now I’m continuing to use Mint because it is the best personal finance manager. Better than Quicken [...]
New Podcast At TWIT
Posted: August 4, 2009 in Web 2.0Tags: cloud, cloud-computing, Gina Trapani, Google, Leo Laporte, TWiT
Leo Laporte over at TWIT has a new podcast. Called TWIg (This Week In Google). The co-host are Leo of course, Gina Trapani founder of Lifehacker and Jeff Jarvis author of “What Would Google Do“. I watched the first episode. It was a little dry and newsy because the big story this week was the [...]
Cloud Storage Overview
Posted: March 2, 2009 in Web 2.0Tags: backup, cloud, cloud-computing, web 2.0
Here’s a list of services that will store store your files online. GMail- Send yourself important files as email attachment to a GMail account or use GMAil Drive to create a webased drive on your computer. >7GB/ FREE SkyDrive- 25GB of online Storage. FREE ADive- 50GB FREE Amazon S3- Unlimited storage for a very small [...]
Gladinet Cloud Desktop
Posted: February 24, 2009 in Web 2.0Tags: Amazon, cloud, cloud-computing, S3, storage
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 [...]
Called “Skydrive” a part of Microsoft’s “Windows Live” it allows you to store and share up to 25GB of data (documents, photos and other media files). “Windows Live Photo Gallery” syncs automatically to Skydrive which is terrific. What I am a very disappointed by; there is no method to transfer other files by a desktop [...]
My rule number 1 is: “If you don’t have two copies of a file on different devices you don’t have that file!” Here are some programs to help you to that end. Carbonite PC only Unlimited storage for one computer. Easy install! My Documents and Desktop set to backup automatically. Right-click to select other items [...]
JungleDisk and S3
Posted: October 17, 2008 in SoftwareTags: Amazon, cloud, cloud-computing, S3, storage, web 2.0
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 [...]
Sep 26, 2008 What is “cloud computing“? Simply put it’s the use of resource on the Internet to get things done (doing work or being creative). In the old days you went to a search engine and typed a topic in, you clicked on search and came up links to match your query. You went [...]
