Pirates of the Amazon is/was an interesting experiment that quickly got a cease-and-desist letter from Amazon.com. For a day, however, the site hosted a Firefox extension that assisted the user in pirating works for sale at Amazon. As TorrentFreak put it, An add-on for the Firefox browser called ‘Pirates of the Amazon’ makes it possible…
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Earlier this month, Amazon.Com expanded its wish list feature by adding a Universal Wish List Button. It’s a bookmarklet that you press on any page featuring something you’d like, and up pops a dialogue box with a few options to fill in (price, etc.) and the item then gets added to your Amazon Wish List.
Jungle Disk recently announced its 2.0 release. If you’re looking for a secure, online data backup system, this is hands down the best consumer-level one. It is also the best for price/reliability, since it uses Amazon’s S3 storage which is 10 cents/gigabyte for data uploads and 15 cents/gigabyte/month for storage. There are cheaper options out…
Since data loss is never a good thing, I have a fairly robust backup system in place that involves backing up my most important data daily to external hard drives and then weekly to optical media. But being a bit paranoid, I’ve also always wanted some sort of way to back up my data to…
I am very meticulous about the way I back up my data. I run daily diff backups, followed by weekly complete backups of the 200gb or so of data I consider absolutely critical (i.e., e-mail, pictures, World of Warcraft combat logs, etc.) I then bun that data to writable DVDs which I then neatly file…