Online Services
We spend on average over 70% of our daily life in front of a computer screen and the “infoweb” has become a great encyclopaedia and portal for dating, researching, shopping, reading the news, booking holidays, checking train times etc etc. The one downside of this is the time it takes to sift through the different sites and browse bookmarks to locate the correct information…
…What if you could access all your favourite sites on one web page, personalised to you?
Netvibes is a next generation portal designed to bring you all your sites under one roof (or should we say window?). Once you have created your free account and logged in, you can start to pull in information from various news sites based on a commonly used technology called an RSS feed (Look at any major media site and there will be the letters RSS). On top of this you can also bring in your Google mail, view whats happening in Facebook and follow people on Twitter
So if you can bring all of this information into one webpage, will you actually get time to make that cup of tea or arrive on time for your dinner date?
Here’s more about Netvibes: http://www.netvibes.com
Lots of IT Hound’s clients want secure backups for their documents and to be able to access them online and anywhere in the world. Dropbox is a wonderful application that is also free for up to 2 gbs of file space. So if you want to access your files at different locations this would be the ideal tool for you to use. Simply download and install on your main computer and save your regular files to the dropbox folder …this is the clever part; when you save to dropbox you are actually saving to their secure server online which is only accessible using your password. If you then want to access your files from any computer with Internet access, you can by going to Dopbox’s website and logging in with your username and password. That’s not all, they even provide a facility to version control your documents, so if you created a document last week and have been updating it daily; Dropbox will store all changes so you can revert back to previous days!
STOP PRESS: If you have an iPhone you can now access your DropBox there too as they have created a free iPhone application!
All this for free and if you wish to expand to 3 gbs, you can by getting your friends to sign up too. For businesses Dropbox provide a 50 gb storage version which a couple of our clients are using to provide them with total online secure storage.
For more information on the free 2gb version click here or if your business requires more storage, click on the DropBox image below.