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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Nero 9 Lite allows you to burn data CDs or DVDs and copy disks as well.
The additional functions listed in the menu are only available via an upgrade, but if you need simple copying and disk creation, then Nero Lite is all you need.
The software can be found at the Nero website.
Negotiate to the Downloads page and choose the Nero 9 Lite.
Enter your email address to start the download.
During the installation you will be asked to install the Nero Toolbar (I couldn’t find a way to remove this option), but you can remove it from your browser’s toolbar after the installation completes.
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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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]]>Easy File Locker (Windows Only)
Easy File Locker is a small utility that can help you protect your sensitive files. Easy File Locker allow you to select files or folders and decide what kind of permissions to set. You can choose to allow read, write, delete, and even decide whether you want the file to appear in a file listing (meaning it won’t show up in explorer or by doing a directory listing using the DOS Command Prompt). You can even set a password to prevent users from opening the utility where you can view the files.
Easy File Locker is free and easy to install. Simply download from Easy File Locker and run through the install wizard.
Once installed, you need to run the application to open the interface and choose to start protecting files.
Add files or folders to protect by clicking on the “plus” signs in the toolbar.
Select the type of protection and click on the “OK” button.
Don’t forget to set a password before exiting the program. This give you an added level of protection by not allowing anybody to open and modify the permissions of the files you are protecting.
Once files are protected, users will get a permission denied message if they try to modify the file when they access levels are restricted.
A very nice feature of Easy File Locker is that it also stops access to file even when the computer is booted into safe mode.
Even files access from the Command Prompt is protected.
The system is not foolproof of course. You do have to remember to set a password, and if you forget it, then I’m not sure you have any options but to recreate the files from scratch (that is if you have not hidden them and can remember all of the file you tried to protect). The same can be said for encryption tools like TrueCrypt, so don’t let that discourage you.
For those of us who have a few files that need to be kept from prying eyes, Easy File Locker is the perfect little utility.
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]]>JustResizeIt is a free utility that makes image resizing really simple. This Adobe Air application will run on Mac, Windows, or Linux (so long as you have a GUI and can drag and drop with your mouse).
Once you download and install the application, you can easily batch processes a bunch of photos by dragging a group of them onto the little icons that corresponds to the size you need.
In this example I needed these photos to be at 640×480 so I dragged them to the properly 640×480 icon.
Once I release the mouse over the icon, JustResizeIt starts to process the files. You will see a progress indicator which tells you how many files have been processed so far.
When it has finished processing your files, you can simply drag the icon back to the same folder, to the desktop, or to a new folder where you want the resized files to appear (also try dragging them into the body of an email).
In this case, I chose to place the resized images back into the same folder the originals were in.
JustResizeIt automatically renames the files using the date and the size you chose and places them in the folder.
It’s that simple. No need to open a complicated photo editing program to resize images.
Customization
JustResizeIt also allows you to customize the current sizes and add new ones as well. If you need to change any of the settings, you can simply open the expansion tab up and have the customize settings available for use.
If you need a quick and easy way to resize your images, download JustResizeIt and give it a test drive yourself.
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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.