Memopal is an online backup provider that also allows you access to your files on other devices. Memopal also allows you to share files with others if you are so inclined. Here is a blurb and some screenshots offered by Memepal.
As well as supporting Windows, Mac and Linux, the files archived on Memopal can also be accessed from an iPhone using a free application and from any mobile device with a browser.
In addition to the free plan, they are also adding an additional 50GB to paid plans which start at $49 per year. And if you already have an online data backup provider, then you may be interested in Memopal’s 30% discount for switching.
Note: I am not affiliated with Momopal in any way.
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]]>Orb is completely free and allows you to access not only iTunes content, but any video, music, or photos on your system’s hard drive and stream it to just about any device on the Internet.
Setting up Orb is simple. Download Orb for either Mac or Windows.
Start the installation and Orb asks for your account information. If you don’t have an account, you can set one up during the install.
Orb indexes your iTunes content automatically, but if you have more media to add, then used the advanced tab to specify for folders.
Once Orb has indexed all your content, you can close the installation wizard and login to mycast.orb.com to further configure your streaming, channels, and playlists.
Now that Orb is setup, you can use any browser on your network, a friends house, your iPhone, Blackberry, Xbox, Wii, or PS3 to receive content from your media library.
Check it out for yourself at Orb.com.
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- Supports PC and Mac
- Free for up to 2 GB of storage – $4.99 a month for unlimited storage
- Supports Pc and Mac
- Prices start $54.95 for a one year subscription – unlimited storage
- Supports PC, Mac and Linux
- Software is $2 a month. Uses Amazon S3 storage or Rackspace Cloud Storage – approx. 15 cents a GB per month – unlimited storage – no minimum
- Supports PC and Linux
- Software is free – uses Amazon S3 storage – approx. 15 cents a GB a month – unlimited storage – no minimum
- PC only
- $49.99 for 25 GB of storage
- Supports PC and Mac
- Prices start at $4.95 a month for 150 GB of storage
- Windows only
- 2 GB account is free – $4.95/month for unlimited storage
- PC and Mac
- 2 GB account is free – prices for 100GB of storage start at $4.99/month – max plan caps at 10 TB of storage
- PC, Mac, Linux and Solaris
- Plans start at $4.95/month
- Windows and Mac
- Unlimited backups start at $50/year
- Windows, Mac and iPhone support
- Prices start at $50/year for 150 GB of storage
SmugVault from SmugMug
- Web based service
- Prices start at $39.95/year for unlimited storage
- Windows, Mac, Linux and iPhone support
- 1 GB of storage is free, 10 GB and up start at $2.99/month
- PC, Mac and iPhone support
- 2 GB account is free, other pricing models start at $9.99/month for 50 GB of storage
- Web based service
- Free for up to 25 GB of storage
Online Photo Backup Resources
Use these sites if you have a huge photo collection and want to keep a backup online.
- Web based service
- Prices start at $49/year for unlimited storage
- Online commerce, use your own Domain Name, and lots of sharing options to name a few.
- Web based service
- Prices start at $39.95/year for unlimited storage
- Choose themes for an online gallery and sell photos through an online store
- Also comes with SmugVault – backup any file – unlimited storage. Basically an interface to Amazon’s S3 cloud storage.
- Web based service
- Free account with 10MB of uploads a month – Pro account for $24 a year – unlimited photos up to 20 MB each
- We based service with Windows, Mac, and Linux uploaders are available
- Free, but current max is 1 GB of storage
Got more – give a shout out to your favorite in the comments.
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]]>McAfee Virus Information
See the latest virus information on McAfee’s virus alert page. Use the dropdown to select among malware, hoaxes, jokes, or view all. You can also sign up for email alerts too.
Symantec/Norton’s Threat Explorer
Get a breakdown of vulnerabilities, threats, and risks at Symantec’s Threat Explorer. Plus see what popular “applications” are currently vulnerable to attacks so you can get them patched.
Trend Micro’s Threat Encyclopedia
See the latest that Trend Micro has identified as a threat at the Threat Encyclopedia.
SophosLabs Blog
Read what the industry experts at Sophos have to say about what’s going on with recent threats at the SophosLabs Blog. Subscribe to their RSS feed and signup for email notifications too.
Microsoft Security Bulletins
Only for those running Windows – get the latest on Microsoft vulnerabilities at their Security Bulletin Search page. Don’t forget to signup for automatic security notifications.
Security Focus
The Security Focus Vulnerabilities page allows you to search for vulnerabilities by vendor. Get even more granular by drilling down into titles and software versions. Get your Security Focus newsletters too.
Computer Associates – Vulnerability Information Center
Find newly discovered vulnerabilities and alerts from the Vulnerability Information Center at CA. From there branch off to virus and spyware news.
I’m sure there are a few more reputable sources for this kind of information. Please post your favorites in the comments.
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]]>10 Fast Fingers
Ten Fast Fingers Speedtest is a great way to quickly challenge yourself. The site simply gives you some random works to begin typing. As soon as you do, the clock starts ticking down from 60 seconds. Once your time is up, you’ll be ranked among all the typists before you.
The site has support for multiple languages and claims that the most commonly used words are what is being randomly presented for you to test against.
Accuracy counts – you get a better ranking with less of a speed penalty if you just slow it down a bit and make less mistakes. I ranked better among the others typists and only incurred a two word per minute penalty by slowing it down.
TypingWeb
If you are looking for something a little more advanced, you can also try TypingWeb. TypingWeb allows you to create an account where you can store your typing data/progress (but this is not required).
TypingWeb has lots of different activities to help you improve your typing skills, including training courses and typing games. If you setup an account, you can also track your stats to see how your improving.
Keep your skills sharp and head over to these sites when you get a free moment.
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- Google says you can get to Orange County in only 55 days.
- Placing limits on machine intelligence.
- Some pretty crappy gadget are on this Wired list.
- Nice looking wallpapers with blue themes.
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Swaptree.com is an all-in-one trading service for books, DVDs, music, and video games. The service allows you to post any of these items by simply entering the barcode or ISBN number (it it is a book) that is associated with the item. Swaptree attempts to look-up the item in its vast database and provide you with a photo and description of the item. Once you confirm the information is correct (and add a few details about the condition of the item), it will be posted to your “items i have” list.
Swaptree also allows you browse for items that you want and add them to your “items i want” list. Depending on what you have added to your have list, and what is currently available, you may already be able to swap something you have for an item in your want list.
Since the Swaptree system relies on its users to post items for trade, the more in your “items i have” list, the more options you have for trading. Swaptree looks at the items you posted and finds other users who want those items. Swaptree has a useful feature that shows you to see all the items you can get “right now”. These are items not necessarily on your want list, but are available to you if you swap one of your items with another user. The reason the number of things you can get right now is so high is because of Swaptree’s three-way trading system.
Three-way trading works like this. Say Mike has a CD that he is willing to swap. Joe has a DVD that Mike wants, but Joe doesn’t want the CD that Mike is willing to trade. Joe instead wants a book. Swaptree introduces Jane into the mix. Jane wants Mike’s CD and is willing to send Joe the book he wants (because she is offering it for trade). I send Jane the CD, Jane sends Joe the book, and Joe sends me the DVD. All this happens in tandem – so I don’t have to wait for Joe to get his book before he sends me the DVD I want. It may sound confusing, but you will see how easy it is once you start using the service.
Who pays for it all?
You have to pay shipping on anything you send. If you use the postage center on the site, Swaptree only charges you a small fee to print postage for each item you are sending. When you sign up for the service, your credit card is used to print postage only when needed. If that doesn’t suite you, then just simply pay for your own postage somewhere else, and drop it in the mail. Since they have an extensive database of sizes and weights for each item, it makes it really simple to just print postage through the Swaptree site and drop the item in the mailbox.
Swaptree also has a comments and feedback section where you can see other users ratings and decide on whether to swap with them or not. Most have a good reputation and are genuinely fast to ship and accurate on their items’ wear and tear descriptions.
PaperbackSwap/SwapaCd/SwapaDVD
These three sites, Paperbackswap.com, SwapaCD.com and SwapaDVD.com all have the same look and feel work slightly different from Swaptree. The difference here is that you can only swap a book for a book, a DVD for a DVD, or a CD for a CD, and each site is run independently (meaning you have to create a user account on each site in order to use the service). Also, each site is run on a “credits” based system.
Paperbackswap/SwapaCD/SwapaDVD are each run the same way, so for ease of typing, I’ll just use Paperbackswap for illustration purposes from here on out.
Paperbackswap requires you to post 10 books online to receive your first two credits. Credits are gained by posting 10 books, sending a book to another user, or buying them outright from the site (credits are $3.35 each as of this writing). Most people have at least 10 books they are willing to part with, so this doesn’t seem to be an issue for the most part.
One of the big differences with this Paper/DVD/CD swapping service is that you don’t have to spend any out of pocket dollars to get a book. If you have earned credits, you can request a book. On, the other hand, if someone requests a book from you, you will have to front the dollars in order to ship the item to the requestor. Similar to Swaptree, you can print your postage online through the site.
Paperbackswap’s postage feature is similar to Swaptree’s in that you can print postage directly from within the site, but also includes something called a wrapper. It is the postage printed on a larger sheet of paper that you can wrap the book in and drop in the mail. No need to find a large envelope or box. Simply use the printed wrapper the book, tape it up. and off to the mailbox you go.
Both Swaptree.com and Paperbackswap/SwapaDVD/SwapaCD.com have an extensive database of available media to from which to browse. There will be no shortage of items from which to choose.
I like the convenience of having DVDs, CDs, Books and video games available to swap in one place. Swaptree has Paperbackswap beaten in this arena whereas Paperbackswap offers a nice wrapper feature to make mailing more efficient.
If your looking for a cheap way to consume more music, movies, books or video games – these two services have you covered.
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]]>I’m certain that at least a few of you have been victim to a stolen laptop. With reports indicating that a laptop is stolen every 53 seconds and that 12,000 laptops a week are are lost in US airports (source Fast Company), it almost seems inevitable that we will suffer from this loss.
Since these reports also indicate that only about 3% of these laptops are ever recovered, you may wonder if there is anything that can be done to help increase the odds of yours being recovered. Of course there are many laptop tracking solutions available to report on your laptop’s location. One such solution is software based Prey.
Prey is free, Open Source software available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Prey works by sending your information about your laptop at scheduled intervals to an email address you configure.
Prey can also be configured to only send the information when you have determined that the laptop has been lost or stolen. You achieve this by configuring Prey to check for the existence of a URL before it sends the information (see their FAQ for more on this).
Of course, Prey requires that the laptop have an active Internet connection, so you can’t guarantee that you’ll recover the laptop, or even that Prey will report anything if it can’t get to the Internet. But as pointed by the developers of Prey, most thieves like to look around at the data on the laptop before completely wiping the hard drive, and that leaves some room for a short window for Prey to do it’s magic.
Prey is definitely worth a look.
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]]>Do you think your computer might have been compromised? No anti-virus, no problem. You can do an online virus, spyware, and malware scan using some free tools on the web.
Housecall – Mac, PC and Linux
Housecall from Trend Micro will do an online scan of your computer. Tell you what it found and makes recommendations for keeping your info private, like removing cookies and temporary Internet files. Housecall is also capable of spyware and malware detection and removal.
Kapersky Online Scanner – PC and Linux
Kapersky’s scanner also scans for malware and spyware. Seems to be a bit slow as it needs to download about 52MB virus definition files before it actually starts the scan.
BitDefender Online Scanner – PC only and must use Internet Explorer
Bitdefender also detects spyware and malware on your computer.
All of the above do not prevent viruses, spyware, or malware from infecting your computer. They are tools used to detect and clean an infected machine.
Recommend running a full scan from different anti-virus companies just to be safe. Instead of buying a product, this online solution fits well.
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]]>Please don’t click on any links one of these emails. Especially if you do not know the person that supposedly sent you the greeting card. Once again, if you receive an email that meets the above criteria, please delete it.
As a matter of principle, I don’t believe in sending E-Cards as they (the companies that provide the e-greeting service) can be used to collect and sell “valid” email addresses to other companies. Please take a look at my 9 Tips to Less Spam post for more info on how to avoid getting spam like this.
Cleanup Info
Symantec has some info on how to cleanup the trojan. Basically disable system restore, update your virus definitions, do a full virus scan, and cleanup the registry.
Trojan Info
A trojan is a malicious program that collects information about your Internet activity and send that info to other websites where the information is collected. Some are very sneaky and collect keystrokes, password and bank login information. Bottom line is, don’t get a trojan.