Archive for February, 2011

Host Your Static Website At Amazon S3

What are the ramifications for higher ed?

Amazon AWS, Amazon S3, Cloud

Dropbox Frustration (or: There’s Got To Be A Middleground Somewhere)

I love Dropbox. It’s made the job on syncing files across my desktop machines, laptop, iPhone and iPad drop-dead simple. Thanks to sharing a few links with people and doing the recent Dropbox scavenger hunt, I’ve got 4.75GB worth of storage. I love too that you can share files with other Dropbox users. This has [...]

Amazon S3, Cloud

Backup Your Desktop Computer to the Cloud (or I <3 BackBlaze)

Four years ago, I bought an external hard drive to backup my work stuff, freelance projects, music, pictures of my kids and much more. It was great – I felt safe knowing those files were safely off my iMac if it shuffled off the mortal coil. Then, the unthinkable happened. While my iMac was fine [...]

backups, Cloud