Dropbox is a magnificent service to use if you need share a collection of documents, images or any other file type out there with another person or a group of people. While I have been using Carbonite for some time as my personal off-site backup solution – I didn’t really have a way to share big files with other people. Carbonite fixed that problem for me because it really allows you to simply share anything you need to pass along.
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Really Simple File Sharing with Dropbox
Multiple Blog Management
When you run multiple websites, it can be difficult to log into each and do any updates that need to be done. Thankfully though, if you are using WordPress on each website you manage, I have found a very interesting new service that lets you manage all of your blogs from one dashboard, ManageWP.
Backup and Search Socially Shared Links
Did you share something on your Twitter page about a month ago and now can not seem to remember the URL? Facebook, Twitter and the like do not make it very easy to go through the archives to dig up old content. Thankfully, Trunk.ly is here to archive things for you. This awesome website will automatically collect links you share on Facebook, Twitter and Delicious and make them searchable for you.
Featured Again in Ping! Zine
Just got the latest edition of Ping! Zine at my door yesterday, and I do have to say it is great cover to cover, front to back. Yes, I also had an article in it this month, Website Hosting vs Personal Backup Hosting (check it out on page 46).
Download Vol 6 Issue #3 of Ping! Zine (.pdf)
If you did not get the paperback copy of the magazine, you can also pick up the digital version from PingZine.com. If you want to get the paperback version of the magazine for free, check out this special subscription offer from WebHostingShow.com.
Day 16 – Dealing with HP Support
Well yesterday was the big day – got my desktop PC back from HP!
Looks like they replaced my power supply and I should be back up and running as I was in a few days at most. Going to take time to get things synced back over from my laptop to my desktop. Overall I would say I was very impressed with how HP handled the situation. A couple of days ago they even gave me a phone call to see how things were going and if I had gotten it back yet – that was nice.
On a side note, I can also report that Windows Vista’s image based backup service actually works! I made a backup of my PC before I sent it off and I am now back to how I was two weeks ago (even after a few reformats in between). I am almost scared to praise them too much because then the wheels might fall off – but thus far that part of the experience has been the most surprising of all.
10 GB of Space Free with Uploading It!
You know me, I am all about finding the awesome (and free if possible) free file hosting and backup services. This latest one, e-mailed into me as a suggestion to cover has a lot of promise. Uploadingit.com not only gives you a service with a catchy name. It also provides you with 10 GB of free storage space to backup your photos and images for free.
You can upload all of your images and files, manage sort and organize them and then they also provide a few cool ways to share them with family, friends and the world around you. As mentioned before you get 10 GB of disk space for storage. You also get 1 GB of daily bandwidth and you can upload 50 MB per file. They provide support for these file formats:
jpg, jpeg, gif, png, bmp, tiff, psd, pdf, txt, rtf, doc, ppt, csv, xls, swf, xcf, xml, css, dcr, docx, xlsx, pptx, ico, ttf, tif, dxf, dwg, max, 3ds, pdd, psp, dng, ai, htm, html, rss, atom, eml, pages, dot, dotx, info, svg, cdr, zip
Sign up and give them a shot. Would love to hear about some real world use of this Online service.
Best 3 Programs to Make Windows Vista Better
I have been using Windows Vista for some time, and sure – it does have a few quirks that make me want to beat myself over the head with my keyboard. Overall though, 85% of the time, I have to say I am pretty happy with it. I am at least as happy as I was with Windows XP. Here are three of the best programs I have found that have just added a little more icing to the Vista cake.
This program makes it a quick and easy job to browse through the shadow copies of your files created by the Windows Vista volume shadow copy service. Without, it is kind of hard to hunt down an exact file backup, but with it – it gives you a familiar interface to find all your backed up files. I would still recommend backing up using other means, but this is just one more nice Vista addition to have handy.
Tired of how your default Windows Vista logon screen looks? This free download will allow you to change that background picture you see on the logon screen to whatever you desire. They also have several you can download and use too. Sure, this is just an eye candy improvement, but we all like for things to look nice, right?
This tool, used with Vista Media Center, is an application designed to remove any and all commercials from the video that you record. I have used it a number of times for the various cable shows I watch and it has yet to let me down. Might just set it up to work overnight, so it doesn’t get in the way of your day to day work.
For some more applications to make the Vista experience better, check out Ave’s Vista Stuff. There are a handful of neat little application there that will add a few more perks to your shinny new OS.
Page Rank Debate and cPanel Backups
Almost lost my voice doing yesterday’s podcast recording, so appreciate my excitement about getting this put out there for the public and my lack of probably common sense to stop talking when I should have. On this week’s edition of the Web Hosting Show I covered the following:
- Google PageRank Updates and Debate
- Discrimination Against Southerners in Hosting
- How to Backup Using cPanel
- Best of the Forum Scripts
- ICANN Investigates Insider Domain Registrations
Should be a podcast everybody can get something out of. If not, you can have your money back! Jokes on you though, you can listen for free.
Using Del.icio.us to Backup Bookmarks
If I ever lost my bookmarks I would be totally lost.
From projects to cool sites to those darn dancing badgers – I need my bookmarks to survive. With that in mind, I have been backing up my bookmarks early and often using these steps and I thought I would share them with you. When it is all said and done you too will be able to use del.icio.us to backup your bookmarks.
There are only two steps you have to take to backup your bookmarks from your browser to Del.icio.us:
Step One: Export from Browser – The first thing you need to do is export your bookmarks from your browser. I use Firefox, so we will stick with that for now. In the Firefox menu bar click on “Bookmarks” and then “Manage Bookmarks” to pull up your bookmark manager.
Once inside of there, go to “File” then “Export…” and save the “bookmarks.html” to your desktop.
Step Two: Upload to the Web – Login to the del.icio.us web site and then click on the “Settings” link at the top. Under the “Bookmarks” section click on the link for “import/upload”. The rest of the steps from here are easy to follow. Read the instructions and upload your “bookmark.html” file you backed up earlier.
As a tag, I usually use “bookmarkbackup” but you are free to use whatever you wish. Just make sure it is unique so you don’t get them mixed up with your other saved items if you use del.icio.us for multiple reasons.
There you have it. Now your bookmarks should be saved and you don’t need to worry – just in case the worst might happen to your browser, computer and/or house. Del.icio.us to the rescue again!
Web Dev Help and How-tos
Here I have for you more Web development help than you can shake a stick at. Go ahead and try. You can not do it. From CSS to menu generation – there is a little bit for any Webmaster to learn from.
- Navigation Menu Debate
- CSS Menu Generator
- Fonts For Every Occasion
- Get Your Dummy Text Here
- Find A Backup Method That Works
Got a suggestion for a Web development topic or a resource you’d like me to check out? Drop me an E-mail and let me know about it.
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