Up-to-date backups are one of those nagging little things that you know you should be doing, but you never seem to find the time to do. Most people don’t take it seriously until after their first major data loss and they realize it’s start over or pay thousands of dollars to a data recovery service (yes most recovery’s start at $1,000 and up).
Enter Dropbox - seamless, automatic backup’s across computers and platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux). Dropbox has just came out of private beta testing and is now open to the world. Accounts are free for up to 2gb of data and $100 per year for up to 50gb of data (paid accounts coming this week). And if you thought that was good they also have some other great features such as versioning, undelete, photo sharing, web access to files, private sharing of folders among other Dropbox users and public file sharing (even with non-Dropbox users).
The possibilities for this little piece of software are amazing, with Dropbox anyone could easily:
Set up a private network with family members to share photos and documents
Set up a common drive for remote and virtual employees
Set up a home network to share music and photos between computers
This is by far the killer backup application for anyone looking for a feature rich, hands off, cross platform backup system that above everything else… just works.
Interesting post on how using these words is bad UI design to represent older and newer content. Instead replace Previous, Next / Back etc. with “Older” or “Newer” links.
A commenter also states that it’s not only the words used but that they are consistent throughout the site as well - simple but often missed concept.
This WordPress plugin allows you to create sections of text in your post or page which expand/collapse when clicked on. You simply wrap the special tags around your text, and set the ‘expand link’ (the link visitors click on to show the text). If your visitors do not have javascript enabled, the ‘expand link’ is not shown, and the text is displayed normally.
The laughter chain is a viral marketing campaign conducted by Skype. The concept was to link together a chain of people laughing at the previous submission. Hit the read more if you need a good laugh.
I came across StickyStreet.com through an article written by my amazing invoicing / time tracking web application. Sticky Street is a customer loyalty web application targeted towards small business. With Sticky Street your business can easily create, manage, and track your own custom client loyalty and gift card programs with or without plastic cards or additional equipment - anywhere you have Internet access.
Not sure how a date or meeting is going to go? Schedule a automated call from GetMooh.com (GetMeOutOfHere) to ring your cell at a predetermined time. GetMooh.com will call you with the automated messaged you picked and give you a chance to escape that mind numbing meeting.
Caterer.com has released a new Little Gordon video that is just as hilarious as the last. These videos are part of a viral marketing campaign sponsered by Caterer.com that they claim is an attempt to help stressed-out summer hospitality workers relax, and “show new industry talent how enjoyable and attractive the sector is.” Check it out:
