Twitter has been pretty popular lately. It has gotten lots of media attention and is in the target sights of many bigger fishes. A rumor has it that Google was shot down trying to acquire it. The latest buzz is Apple is looking into purchasing this service. Just like anything that shoots quickly to the top, the race to the bottom begins. This time literally bottoms. In comes twishitter. I’ll let the name and the link speak for itself.
What would happen if your house got washed away by Hurricane Katrina II? The nice backups you made of your data would probably be gone from the fire safe along with the computer near your desk. This is why offsite backup is important in our digital age. In the not so distant pass, such services were expensive for a few megabytes of storage. Today, Google’s gmail and sites such as box.net will give you gigabytes for free to store your data on their machine. Brushing aside your paranoia of having your data somewhere else, this is great opportunity to sigh up and create a habit of uploading your data to a different location. To be safe, encrypt your data with WinRAR or Winzip BEFORE you transfer it. Here are some steps to creating a folder on your local machine that accesses box.net’s computer. If executed correctly, this folder looks as though it resides on your computer and give you the ability to drag and drop files as such.
Copy your newly created ‘network’ icon to your desktop and just double click to open and use as any folder that’s on your computer. If you reboot, or from time to time, it may ask you for your username and password. This method is also a great way to share files between work and home machines or laptops!
