Mozy vs. Backblaze – The fight of the online backup
By now everyone knows that backing up is a very important thing to do. Everyone has had your gut sink to your toes after doing something on your computer and realizing you have no way to undo it. Some times its not your fault the OS just ate your file, or the hard drive just died. No matter what you have on your computer most likely you do not want to take the weeks that it would take to recreate everything on you hard drives. And that is why backup has been a hot topic for the last many years. The first thing to come along was the external hard drive backup, which at first was very flaky, but now with things like Time Machine it as become a turn on and forget about it system.
Things iPhone app bug
Just emailed this to Cultured Code because of a bug I was having with their Things app.
I just updated to the Iphone 3.0 OS and also the newest Things app for the iphone that was said to support iphone 3.0. When I open up the iphone app and sync it with the desktop app it opens the sync window on both the iphone and the desktop, goes through the normal process and then when the desktop sync window goes away the iphone is still sitting there syncing. I can let it sit there forever and it will never finish.
Things (Mac): 1.1.2 (941)
Things (iPhone/iPod touch): 1.3.7
I got this response about 5 min later. (very nice turn around time!)
To many tweets!
Twitter has really taken off in that pass 6 months. People are signing up like crazy and new tools are popping up like crazy. People are following thousands of others and are trying to find the best way to manage all those tweets. TweetDeck has become one of the leaders as a desktop tool to view all the tweets you are following. The abbility to split the tweets up in to different groups / columns makes it far easier to organize the tweets you really want to read.
Sync and backup your bookmarks!
I started using foxmarks right about the time it first came out in 2006. I wanted my bookmarks at work to match the ones on my home computer. I have since moved away from having 2 computers but I still have the firefox pluggin installed. Why? Well, for one foxmarks versions your bookmark library each time it syncs so you have a way to go back and find that bookmark you deleted because you never though you would need it again. Foxmarks has just released a new product that will allow you to sync your bookmarks between computers and browsers. They now support Firefox, IE and Safari. This is great news for those of us that don’t use Safari but have and iPhone. By setting up foxmarks to sync with Safari I now can have my uptodate Firefox bookmarks on my iPhone.
Check it out!
http://blog.foxmarks.com/?p=560
Back in the Freelance world
I got my start in web work while I was a youth intern at First United Methodist Church Round Rock, Texas. I was just about to start 10th grade and was handed NetObjectsFusion and was told to go make a web site for the youth group. From that point on I have been working on web site and designs. When I got my job at Alchemy Systems I stopped doing freelance work because I didn’t have the time. No that Alchemy has changed from a web development shop to having just 2 products that we work on I have started to miss working with web sites.
This desire to start working with sites is what spurred me to to start this blog. Soon after a friend of mine showed me the company web site for his roomates company, I offered to help clean up the design some. About 3 days later I got a call from one of the guy I did a web site for about 5 years go asking if I was interested in creating a web site for his new realestate business. Seems like all I needed to do was start the ball rolling with this blog and everything fell in to place for more freelance work.
5 Things I hate about numbered blog posts
1. If they are over 5-8 items they are usless because you know the poster just didn’t spend time to atcualy look and review the links that he is posting.
2. You have to swim through all the links or items that they throw at you in the list to find out if you care about any of them. No you have just spent the time that the blog poster should have done.
3. They are a quick and easy way to throw content out. (See even I can do it)
4. Most of the time there is only 1 or 2 links in the list that is even worth being in the list to start with.
5. Every blog in the world does it and you find the same Top 100 links / images / ideas / software lists mulitple times on different sites.
I just keep getting the dang Top # lists in my RSS reader and most of the time they are worthless to me because I am not going to spend to sift through all of them and figure out which one is good. If the blogger had spent the time to review each link dwindle it down to the 5 they like the most and then write to us about why and the possitves and negatives of each that is worth it but get rid of these Top 100 lists please! Thank you 
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