SpiderOak.com - Online Backup, Access, and Sharing July 17, 2008
Posted by Ced in Online, Services, Storage.Tags: sharing, Online, access, backup, spideroak, Storage
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SpiderOak.com provides a service for secure online backup, access, and sharing.
“Picture a world where all the documents, photos, songs, and/or movies on your various computers or external drives will never be lost again… Welcome to SpiderOak. We understand how frustrating the permanent loss of valuable data can be. As such, let SpiderOak revolutionize the way you manage your digital life - providing a secure, automated, and easy-to-use approach to backup, store, access, and share.” [SpiderOak]
SpiderOak Free gives you 2GB of online storage, absolutely free. If you need more than the free 2GB, they also offer a “Plus” or “Forever” account.
Socialthing.com July 12, 2008
Posted by Ced in Bookmarks, Feeds, Music, Online, Photo, Services, Video.Tags: feed, Online, social, socialthing, stream
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Socialthing.com is an online service that lets you consume most of your online social streams easily.
“See everything that’s going on with your friends in all the sites you use, easily figure out where you’re missing connections with your friends, interact with multiple sites at once, and more! ” [socialthing]
Currenlty supports the following:
- Brightkite
- Del.icio.us
- Digg
- Flickr
- Guitar Hero
- Last.fm
- Plurk
- Pownce
- Seesmic
- Vimeo
- YouTube
More and more services are being added as time goes by. This is a great service that keeps me updated with my favorite social services, in an easy to follow stream.
MySurfPad.com - Tabbed Startup Page Service July 10, 2008
Posted by Ced in Bookmarks, Email, Info, Music, Online, Search, Services, Subscribe.Tags: categories, mysurfpad, Online, page, startup, tab
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MySurfPad.com is an online startup page that features tabbed categorization.
“MySurfPad.com was born out of a personal frustration of having to visit numerous web pages to access my information and tools. In designing the site, we wanted to create a layout where we could consolidate the best of my favorite links and basic tools on one page for easy, efficient access. The site continued to evolve from having news, tools and search engines to incorporating live international TV/radio, games and hundreds of other useful modules, turning MySurfPad.com into a search, news and entertainment epicenter.” [MySurfPad]
Categories include:
- Search (Calendar, Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Wikipedia, Bookmarks)
- News
- Email+ (Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, MySpace, Facebook, and Yahoo/MSN/AIM chat)
- Tools (Vital Stats, G Finder, World Time, Stop Watch, Dictionary, PDF Converter)
- Music/TV
- Fun
- Travel
Worth checking out if you like making use of configurable online startup pages.
Ping.fm - Post to Multiple Social Networks Easily July 8, 2008
Posted by Ced in Blog, Online, Services.Tags: Email, fm, im, network, ping, social, web
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Ping.fm is an online service that lets you easily update virtually all your social networks in just one step.
“Ping.fm was created for the sole purpose of making it as easy as possible to share your posts with the world. Now you don’t have to fumble around the web in order to post anymore, you can just post once, and be done with it. ” [Ping.fm]
Currently, the Ping.fm supports the following services:
- Bebo
- Blogger
- Brightkite
- FriendFeed
- hi5
- Identi.ca
- Jaiku
- LiveJournal
- Mashable
- MySpace
- Plaxo Pulse
- Plurk
- Pownce
- Tumblr
- Xanga
You can send to Ping.fm using email, IM, or web. It also has a trigger system, where you can specify where your post will go:
- @s <message> - Posts a status update
- @b <title>^<body> - Posts a blog entry
- @m <message> - Posts a micro-blog entry
I love Ping.fm, and it does make it much, much easier to send updates to the social services!
Sumopaint.com - Online Image Editing July 5, 2008
Posted by Ced in Online, Photo, Services.Tags: edit, graphics, image, Online, sumopaint
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Sumopaint.com is an online photo-editing application.
“Sumopaint offers simple but powerful tools for creating and editing images with a web browser.” [Sumopaint]
When you are done editing, you can save the image file on your local computer, or to your online account. This would be a very handy online app, giving you basic photo editing capabililty on-the-go.
