Tag archives for Amazon.Com

Pirates of the Amazon

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…

Amazon’s Universal Wish List Button

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 2.0

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…

Jungle Disk — Online Backups through Amazon’s S3

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…