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  Need Online Backup

  Joe Caridi 6:00 am on July 17, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Cool Hardware, Web Service, web software

  Need an online backup? Backup all your files, pictures and videos in a safe, encrypted, and secure way with Jungle Disk. Jungle Disk utilizes Amazon Web Services to store your data in the cloud. All the user sees is a network drive letter on their local machine. The software helps you to schedule backups of whatever and whenever you want. The service also provides access to all your files from any Internet enabled PC. Pay for only the server space and upload bandwidth that you use. This is a relatively inexpensive and reliable solution without worrying about any hardware failures. By backing up your data in the cloud, you also secure your data from natural disaster or fire.

  

  Fore more information, visit http://bit.ly/T6vL3.

   

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  Check status of web sites with AreMySitesUp.com

  Joe Caridi 8:30 pm on July 9, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Web Hosting, Web Design (7), web software, web tools (2)

  If you host or manage or are responsible for a web site the number one thing you have to know is …   Are my sites up?  A service at AreMySitesUp.com handles this issue in a seamless and easy to manage way.  So whether you are responsible for 5 sites or 100 sites, you can know within minutes if any of your sites are down and begin working to correct the problem – even before it is ever reported to you.

  AreMySitesUp.com provides both FREE and paid service.  The free service is great.  It allows you to monitor up to 5 sites and receive email or SMS when any of the sites go down.  It checks the sites about once an hour at this level.  Not bad if you are running less than critical sites.  For more important sites or if you monitor a lot of sites, you may want to check out their paid service.  For $75 a  year, you can monitor up to 100 sites with checks every 15 minutes.  All the premium services check the sites’ status with greater frequency, provide RSS feed instant checks and are advertisement free when you visit the web site.

  Other features include, iphone/itouch application, twitter integration (really not sure what this looks like or why anyone would care), and reports of time a site was down and when it came back up.
  

  All and all a good service.  The free service takes care of most our needs, but the paid service provide a little extra speed and the ability to monitor a lot more sites.  For more information, visit http://bit.ly/17FBiu.

   
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  Orb and your Wii

  Shawn Brown 4:49 pm on January 10, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: orb, web software, web tools (2), wii

  We recently joined the bands of Wii owners. When I first hooked it up I thought it was only something to play games on. Then after a bit of digging around on Google I realized I could hook the Wii up to my wireless Internet. One of the Wii channels is called the Internet Channel. Access to the Internet channel gives you access to the web. I soon discovered an article Use Your Wii as a Media Center by Lifehacker. I thought it was interesting so I gave it a try. Here’s a summary of some of the features Orb and Wii can do.

  Access To My Photos

  My family and I take a lot of digital photos. From birthday parties to kayaking trips we’ve got a bunch of photos stored on our computer. Now from my Wii I can access those pictures stored on my PC and view them individually or set it up to run as a slide show. Pretty cool stuff.

  Access To My RSS Feeds

  What’s better than reclining on the couch and having access to all my favorite RSS feeds. Orb gives a nice interface for viewing on the TV.

  Access To My Videos
  
  Do you have videos stored on your PC. Using Orb and Wii you can now stream those videos to your TV.

  Access To My Music

  Most of us by now have a lot of music stored on our computers. We either listen to it from our computer, burn it to a CD, or load it on our favorite music device. How would you like to access your music from your TV. Using Wii and Orb you can now stream that music from your computer to your TV.

  I give my recommendations to Orb. It’s a cool service and easy to setup. Happy surfing!

  Visit orb: http://www.orb.com/