New online storage solution

Posted September 18th, 2008 by Josh No Comments »

I recently discovered a new online storage solution thats just come out of beta and been fully released into the wild.

Dropbox is a highly user friendly storage solution designed with the ethos that little or no effort should be needed on the users behalf to keep their documents syncronised with the online storage system.

Dropbox achieves this very well. You download a small executable from their website, install it and signup. You then choose where you’d like to store your Dropbox folder on your local filesystem. Once setup this folder and anything inside it is automatically syncronised with Dropbox’s servers.
The brilliant thing about Dropbox is that you can install the client on any PC, login with your details and your Dropbox folder is automatically syncronised with this new computer.

Dropbox also has a web-interface if you dont want to install the client (if your using a public computer for example). From it you can upload and download files, aswell as manage existing files already in your Dropbox.
If you dont happen to have access to a computer at anytime, you can also access Dropbox via its iPhone portal (this is just a page styled to work better on mobile browsers, so will actually work with most smartphones and PDA’s).

Dropbox also allows you to share certain files publicly. A folder named ‘Public’ is created inside your Dropbox and any files placed in this folder can be made available. All you need to do is right click the file and select the ‘copy public link’ option, then paste this link in an email or IM chat.

You can also make groups with other Dropbox users in and share certain files to the group, making it a potentiall useful businessfile sharing tool.

There are Windows, Linux and Mac OSX clients available, allowing you to sync between these 3 platforms.

Currently, users can signup for free and get 2GB of online storage. Apparently these 2GB accounts will always be free, which is great for those of us who dont like paying for anything. They are currently working on implimenting larger storage space, but this will probably be a chargable extra. A price of $9.99 per month for 50GB is being bandied around at the moment, which sounds very reasonable to me.

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New Site Layout

Posted September 7th, 2008 by Josh No Comments »

If you’ve noticed anything odd going on with the site over the past coupld of days. its just me testing some new layout.
Im hoping to have the new layout live sometime this week if I can get enough time to work on it.

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New Vivarium

Posted September 6th, 2008 by Josh No Comments »

I’ve finally gotten round to buying a decent vivarium for my snake.

She’s been living in a 4′ long fish tank for the past couple of years, but its not the easist thing to clean and its aukward to get the snake in an out easilly.

The Viv I bought is a Vivexotic AX22, its 504mm wide 405mm deep and 920mm. Its made from melamine faced chipboard and has glass doors.
I assembled and sealed it last night and am just waiting for the sealant to dry. Hopefully the snake will be able to move in sometime tomorrow!

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