.hr20090309 { color: orange; background-color: orange; height: 4px; border: 0; } Catching up on a variety of interesting topics today. Some of these have been lingering in my inbox for quite a while -- others are hot off the wire. In every case though, the result of innovation continues to amaze and...

Mac users, rejoice - the cloud storage solution to end all cloud storage solutions is finally ready for public beta on OS X and trust us when we tell you, you’ll want to have a look. The Syncplicity founders might have Microsoft pedigree but that certainly doesn’t mean they can’t b...

Today we discussed why your business needs to use Amazon S3. Well, we didn’t discuss how you actually use Amazon S3. Here are 4 apps you can use to manage your Amazon S3 account on your Mac… 1. Transmit (free trial, recommended) We use Transmit for FTP on the Mac, so it was a natural fit...

More than ever these days I'm living in the cloud. Google has my mail, Apple has my calendar, del.icio.us has my bookmarks, Flickr has my photographs, and Amazon S3 has my files. Day-to-day I rely on a lot of cloud infrastructure, and while I'm old enough to remember having to wade though card catal...

Ever wonder what it takes to get a IT system up and running as a nonprofit under 25 people? In these difficult economic times, it’s really important to get your act together regarding your nonprofit’s finances. When I started out in the tech industry in the 1990s, IT departments were sti...

The first week of the Ghacks Christmas Giveaway has passed and I can already assure you that it will not be the last giveaway here at Ghacks. The majority loves the products that I have selected so far and I hope that this trend continues in the coming three weeks. Today’s offer is the file sy...

Bringing Cloud services to Desktop and Gladient does that. They have created a desktop application which allows you to navigate your Amazon S3 Storage, Windows Live Sky Drive , Google Docs and Picasa services like mounted hard drive in your computer. Its like bringing the cloud service to desktop. G...

I've been quite busy with work but unfortunately, the nature of what I do means that I can't really blog about it.  Or at least, I have yet to figure out how to appropriately blog about it. That said... it is the most interesting job I have had since when we were first working on XML support in Int...

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an easy and inexpensive Internet hard-drive from Amazon Web Services (AWS) with absolutely no limits. Now some people assume that Amazon S3 is a storage service meant primarily for web start-ups who store data in-the-cloud but that’s not correct because ju...

This post suggestion has been sitting in my Skribit account for a while so I thought I would finally address it. S3 is Amazon’s developer-aimed online storage solution. In recent years, consumer-friendly applications and tools have added support for Amazon S3, making it a viable backup solutio...