Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

Online backups

Arrgghh!
I’ve mentioned before that I am paranoid about backing up my data.
I have at least 4 copies of all of my important data and at any one time 2 of those copies are offsite (i.e not in my flat). One of these off site backups is done through a client to Amazons S3 service.
This is where I had a few problems lately…
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Changes in podasphere !?

I spend a lot of time, far to much time, watching and listening to various podcasts.
These last few weeks big changes have been happening to a couple of the shows I follow…
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Twitter

I posted last week about some changes in the twitter-verse, well it seems more of a pattern is now emerging of what is actually going to happen
So is this the end of twitter as we know it?
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Sad news

I found something out today, that really threw me.
It was totally out of the blue and my reaction to it was totally unexpected too.
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Twitter clients

The very day before I decide to post about my long quest for the perfect twitter client, we have major, maybe even seismic upheavals in the twitter-verse!
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GoDaddy Plans to Stop Registering Domain Names in China

GoDaddy Plans to Stop Registering Domain Names in China: “GoDaddy.com Inc., the world’s largest domain name registration company, told lawmakers Wednesday that it will cease registering Web sites in China in response to intrusive new government rules that require applicants to provide extensive personal data, including photographs of themselves. The rules, the company believes, are an effort by China to increase monitoring and surveillance of Web site content and could put individuals who register their sites with the firm at risk.”

(Via OSNews.)

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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 embraces – yes – HTML5

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 embraces – yes – HTML5: “

Browser preview powers web standards with GPU

Microsoft is focusing on performance and HTML 5 standards support in Internet Explorer 9, the next version of its web browser.…

(Via The Register.)

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IE8/Google crashes

Am I the only person on the web getting problems with IE8 and the iGoogle home page?
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Apple action ‘threatens Google’

Apple action ‘threatens Google’: “Apple’s patent case against HTC may have implications for all phone makers using Google software, an analyst warns.”

(Via BBC News.)

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Microsoft offers browser choices

Microsoft offers browser choices: “Microsoft is to ask millions of Europeans who use Windows if they want to switch to a rival web browser.”

(Via BBC News.)

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