Today I stopped using Google Drive as a large cloud storage service. I’ve deleted everything but my Google Docs and started using my DropBox account for day-to-day cloud syncing, for backup I’m using Cloudberry S3 backup desktop to backup to Amazon.com’s Glacier. At $0.01 per-gigabyte Amazon Glacier is hard to beat, but there are some [...]
This is just a quick post to let people know about an alternative to Google Drive Sync called InSync which allows you to sync your data to any Google account. It doesn’t have selective syncing but I think it works better then Google’s Drive Sync application.
I finely got around to redesigning http://faulk.me, it is a complete change from what it was before. This was the first time that I’ve used the 960.gs grid system and it was very useful and made for a quicker design process — I highly recommend using it.
After almost a week of using Google Drive I have found a limitation that is a show stopper for me. If you add a file to you Google Drive folder that already exists online it doesn’t check to see if the file is the same as the one online it just re-uploads it, as you [...]
Google Drive (http://drive.google.com) has been long anticipated and finely here. I’ve been using it for the last three days and I put it through some tests and it has passed almost every one. One problem did arise, it got stuck with an error “Unable to sync” with no other information, to resolve the “Unable to [...]
Today I ran across a post talking about using Amazon’s EC2 service as a VPN to secure your wireless connection when on a public wi-fi. I read through the how-to and figured I’d write up my much easier and quicker way of doing basically the same thing, plus I think it maybe a bit cheaper. [...]
Today I decided to test out a number of the anti-virus scanners that are floating around the internet. I didn’t do a very in-depth test, just gathered a archive of 3765 viruses and tested each anti-virus scanner to see how many of the viruses it found and how many files it scanned. Note: Some of [...]