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// May 13th, 2011 // No Comments » // Cycling, Internet / Web
Man, I’ve had this partially drafted in my blog for close to a year, so I finally made an effort to complete the post, and share it. Keeping with one of the ongoing theme of the blog as of late, I wanted to share bike web sites I check daily, or damn near close to daily.
Basically, I wanted to share and maybe give a few fellow cyclists a new links (or my preferred way of reading— RSS feeds) to look at:
// April 29th, 2011 // No Comments » // Computers, Internet / Web
Great read, though in my mind this all academic. When we’re comparing brute force attacks time to get a password in years, in my book, either gibberish with a nice password helper like 1Password, or a phrase with spaces is secure enough for everyday use.
Why Multi-word Phrases Make for More Secure Passwords Than Incomprehensible Gibberish
// April 11th, 2011 // No Comments » // Internet / Web
As cloud-based storage and streaming become more of the norm, content ownership is about to shift. Interesting read:
// March 30th, 2011 // No Comments » // Internet / Web
Love this writeup and comparison of three cloud-based storage options out there. Obviously, Amazon’s offering is brand new, but I’ve been a user and a big fan of Dropbox for quite awhile and love it for its reliability and all of the third party integrations that have come out of the woodwork. I’m interested to try out Amazon’s cloud storage as well. Though it’s not a standalone product, Lifehacker should have also added Apple’s MobileMe cloud storage to the comparison as well. Its integration is obviously best with Macintosh computers, though Dropbox is still my favorite when factoring in cost, reliability and third-party integration.
Cloud Storage Faceoff: Windows Live SkyDrive vs. Dropbox vs. Amazon Cloud Drive
// February 22nd, 2011 // No Comments » // Internet / Web, TiVo Bytes, Video
Rumors of this first surfaced a month or longer ago. This is pretty cool as an already happy Amazon Prime user. This just means more bang for my buck. Now it just has to work on our TiVos! Unless they up their offerings though, we’ll continue to be Netflix subscribers as well.
// February 13th, 2011 // No Comments » // Internet / Web, Software
Sweet, love my little fitbit device, and am interested to see how having a public API will enhance it. Anyone out there beta testing new software to interface with the fitbit, drop me a line if you want a beta tester or someone to review your software.
// February 9th, 2011 // No Comments » // Internet / Web
Sounds weird, but this is a neat little concept to obfuscate your email address to help combat spam, but still make your email available. I setup URLs for both my work and personal email addresses.
// February 5th, 2011 // No Comments » // Design, Internet / Web, Music
At work, we’ve got this little private internal resource/blog for sharing cool inspirational stuff in design that speaks to us. The last couple days, it’s also been a great place for content to share with the Keefer Madness audience. Hope no one at Centerline Digital minds me sharing some of the stuff people have come across with the world. Then again, I guess it’s all already out there if we’re all linking to it.
The link below is to a cool little Flash visualization of artists and their relationships, offshoots, etc. The data looks to be pulled from Last.fm and Amazon, but seems pretty elementary. My example I tried — Van Halen of course shot off Sammy Hagar, but there was no reference to Chickenfoot.
Regardless, the visual and movement of the explorer is really neat, and with more and better data, the thing would be really cool for visualizing a lot and complex musical relationships pretty quickly.
// February 3rd, 2011 // No Comments » // Internet / Web
Two little HTML5/JavaScript auditory experiments showed up this week — at least in front of my eyes. Thought I’d share them with you all who hadn’t come across them yet either. While HTML5 and JavaScript are typically more of subject matters these days addressed over at my other blog, Keefr.com, I thought the little quirky interactive audio demos felt better at home here on Keefer Madness.
// February 2nd, 2011 // 5 Comments » // Computers, Internet / Web, Software
Mozy’s been our offsite backup of choice — cheap at $5 a month. But this is just lame. I read about this on Lifehacker. It was nice of them to email customers for a heads up.
Plans are as follows:
$5.99/mo – 50 GB (1 computer)
$9.99/mo – 125GB (up to 3 computers)
An additional 20GB of storage is $2.00/mo.
We’ve currently got about 140GB backed up on there, meaning we’re looking at going from $5 a month, to about $12 a month.
Might be a good catalyst to go through iPhoto and get rid of a lot of unneeded/crappy photos. It might also be time to be more selective about what we’re actually backing up offsite. We’ll see how much we can cull. If that doesn’t get us enough, might be time to look for a new offsite backup solution. Thoughts?
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