An online notebook
As well as being the world’s biggest online retailer, Amazon is also one of the main providers of cloud based computing services. They offer a dizzying array of different services and platforms, enabling anyone with a credit card to get access to serious computing power. One of their newer offerings is WorkSpaces. These provide access to … Keep reading
No, really. try it. Try Doorbell is a fantastic podcast by my friends Robert Brook and Lloyd Davis. It’s a great listen – some tech, some culture, some wittering. Here’s the feed URL so you can subscribe in your favourite app for this kind of thing (I like Pocket Casts): http://fadingcity.com/?format=rss
ThinkUp is a great little service for anyone who likes to track how they are doing on the social sites Twitter and Facebook. Rather than relying on some arbitrary grading system like Klout, ThinkUp instead provides simple, clear feedback on what you are doing online and how people are responding to it. There’s a web … Keep reading
I worry about backups. Do you worry about backups? The best way to have backups is to ensure you have three copies of everything important and one of those ought to be somewhere other than where your computers are kept. These days, that means the cloud. I have a fairly standard Seagate 3TB external hard … Keep reading
As always, a useful read. [slideshare id=33797589&doc=2014socm-140422070132-phpapp01]