Protecting data in the data cloud
I use Gmail for all of my personal email accounts. I also started using Google Docs for all of my word processing and spreadsheet needs and Google’s Calendar for keeping track of where I need to be.
Everything is going pretty well with that so far with a couple minor concerns that I will talk [...]
Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
My favorite Firefox extension these days is Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer. I love being able to store bookmarks on my computer at work and have them show up on the computer at home and vice versa.
I was excited with the prospect of del.icio.us when I first heard about it, but quit using it because it [...]
Online Picture Frames - Living in the data cloud
I bought a digital picture frame for my wife for Christmas. We haven’t had a chance to play with it much yet, but the picture looks nice and it reads easily off of the memory card.
No complaints.
I was thinking today about my desire to move to the data cloud and decided that this would [...]
My own social networking site that will never come to be
I have an idea for a social networking site. It is pretty niche oriented and would be fun for me to participate in if it existed. Based on another blog that I write, I can assume that I could get around 20 people to test it without any problem.
Unfortunately, despite working as a [...]
Moving to the Data Cloud in the Google Sky
I am not 100% committed to moving everything off of my hard drive and into the magic data cloud. I am much closer to making the move, however.
Earlier today, I was thinking about looking at the online todo/calendar options when I realized that all I really need and want is a spreadsheet that I [...]
YouTube in a little window
I was planning on complaining that YouTube needs a little detachable player window that you can easily resize down to only show the video itself.
Before doing so, I decided that I should dig again and see if it existed already. It does.
That little button that I highlighted in red will open a new window [...]
Website statistics and AdSense
Everybody and their dog has AdSense on their websites. Everybody and their dog also has a website stats program that tracks pageviews.
Why is it that nobody seems to have a reliable way of tracking AdSense clicks? The stats programs do a good job of telling us what page a reader came from and [...]
Multiple Online Personalities
I am getting frustrated with needing to create a new identity for every website I seem to visit these days. Reddit, Digg, Netscape. To participate, you have to create an account including at least a userid, password, and normally an email.
They give the option to include more personal information so that we can [...]
Threadless and the inconvenient shopping cart
I wanted to order a few T-shirts from Threadless for my wife and kids for Christmas and even pick up one or two for me, too. They make some pretty cool shirts and they are a semi-local, relatively small company.
I picked out my first shirt and added it to the shopping cart. Then [...]
Making money online with Squidoo
My stats software reminded my that I set up a couple quick and dirty lenses over at Squidoo a while back. I went over to try and remember what I created over there and found out I had made $1.31 I did not even know about. I’m not planning a retirement party anytime [...]