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If you are wondering what are the choices you have to make share and backup your files, you might easily be able to find hundreds of alternative on the web today. Each one with their different features and technologies.

I came across 2 free tools that i use for my backup and file sharing:

MozyHome Remote Backup

MozyHome is a small application that runs on background and backups any folder that you configure it to. It will encrypt and then upload your files to your 2 GB free space. You have several tools to enable you to them restore any lost files. Nice for uploading document, project files. You have also the paid version with unlimited space.

Dropbox

Dropbox is a new tool, that just got public last week. It’s similar to Mozybackup with 2 GB free space and the posibility of backup your files. With some extra features such as file sharing and automatic sync. Personally I use it to share files only. Since your files need to be in the DropDox folder (Similar concept and LiveMSN sharing folder) to be able to share.

It also allows sharing of files and give you a nice public URL that you can easily send to the person you want to share your files with. The only lacking features i might see here, is that you can’t share an entire folder with files inside. i.e When you want to share several photos you can’t directly get a link to the folder. You must share it with someone that already has Dropbox. A feature that would enable a link to a zip version of an entire folder could be nice.

Yahoo has just opened his search engine to us developer folks, we can now mindle and medle about to improve our search result on our own website. The codename for this open API is BOSS (Build your Own Search Service). As describe in zdnet article: is this a way for Yahoo to try to get some market shares in the search industry on GOOG.

Here is an extract from Yahoo! Search BOSS YDN

BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is Yahoo!’s open search web services platform. The goal of BOSS is simple: to foster innovation in the search industry. Developers, start-ups, and large Internet companies can use BOSS to build and launch web-scale search products that utilize the entire Yahoo! Search index. BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!’s investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure. By combining your unique assets and ideas with our search technology assets, BOSS is a platform for the next generation of search innovation, serving hundreds of millions of users across the Web.

I’ll try to experiment a bit on it, to see if i can get to integrate the search on this blog for a small…

Nowadays many professionals in different activity sector offers their services and expertise through freelance portals. These portals are websites were you can post job offerings and register as a freelance to take job offerings. In terms of business, you can bargain and get the work done at an affordable price with expert professionals.

So where is the catch ? Why doesn’t everyone go online and work as a freelancer ?

It’s quiet simple, before getting a Job online it can take quiet a while you must register to several websites either paid or non paid, then apply for job positions that fits your expertise, wait for an answer and if you are accepted start working. When working as a freelancer you are not bound by any long term contract many a time, you get to work on a module for 1 month and when the job is done, you simply have to get to the entire process again, which can sometimes take several weeks before you get another job. So being a freelance is a tedious and long process, but it is quiet a remunerative process, since you get to work on different project and gain much more experience.

Since I have expertise in Web Technology and Programming here are some websites that i am registered to.

Guru.com

Guru.com was launched August 2000 (as A2Zmoonlighter.com)
It’s Mission: To provide the most efficient platform to connect and perform transactions with freelance professionals locally, nationally, and globally.

Odesk.com

Odesk.com was created in 2003
It’s Mission: Build the world’s best network of technology service providers through screening, testing, and feedback
Offer the platform that lets buyers successfully hire, manage, and pay service providers from around the world

thecodingmachine.com

thecodingmachine.com was launched in late 2006
It’s Mission: offers you IT services. Thanks to a new approach, your projects can be delivered quicker and at lower cost.
Has created a web platform and linked together coders from all over the world.

There are many for website offering job posting and freelance work but, there are a the one i experienced with and i find them pretty good tools to deal with when you are searching for a job online to share your expertise.

Leave your comment on other sites that might be good, I’ll review them and update this post.

10 years have now gone since the first apparition of Netscape Navigator and now it is time to say goodbye to this browser. As announced by AOL, the netscape browser support will end on the 1st of February 2008.

I still remember during my first days using internet i have been playing around with Navigator 3 or 4 i may think. It was kind of the impressive i may say the first time, but afterwards i switched to Internet Explorer, and now i am using both Internet Explorer and FireFox.

I just bought a Lenovo 3000 N100 6 month ago. Now it’s time for some review on this piece of hardware.

The hardware specification is as follows:

Model: N100 0768-FFG
CPU: Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83 Ghz
Memory: 1Gb DDR2 PC5300
Hard Drive: 120 GB HDD (Fujitsu) SATA
Screen: 15.4″ WSXGA+ 1680×1050 Glossy
Optical Drive: DVD-RW Matshima
GPU: NVIDIA 7300 Go 128 MB (dedicated)
Network/Wireless: Intel Wireless 3945A/B/G, Realtek 10/100 Ethernet Card, Modem and Bluetooth
Inputs: 84 Key Keyboard with Two Button Touchpad with Scroll Bar
Buttons: Power, Lenovo Care, Power Up and Down, Mute, and WiFi/Bluetooth On/Off Switch.
Ports:

• Four USB 2.0
• Four-Pin Firewire
• 4-in-1 Card Reader
• Ethernet
• Modem
• VGA Out
• S-Video Out
• Microphone
• Headphone
• Security Lock
• Power Connector

Integrated Camera (1.3 MegaPixel)
Fingerprint reader
6c Li-Ion

It was delivered with Windows Vista Business Edition. And some other software that makes it run slower than it should. Thus after the 1st month having Vista on it, i decided to downgrade back to Windows XP SP2 Pro. And this is just so fine. Beware before doing this operation make sure that you download any Driver that are needed. Since the set is not delivered with a driver CD. I found all the drivers on the Lenovo website.

Here are some stats and test that i did.

Using CPUz(http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php)

Super Pi Calculation (http://www.overclock.net/downloads/28044-definitive-super-pi-thread.html)

Will be coming soon… let me get some time.

There are several ways to clone custom object in .NET.

• Using reflection to get information about each field and properties in the custom class, create a new instance and assign the proper value.
• Manually implementing the clone method and assign each field and method and then return a new object
• Using serialization and deserialization.

I have tried the third method, that can be found here, it seems to be working fine for the time being, more test need to be done for performance overhead.

Today I have been trying to web stress my development website using ACT from Microsoft. I am using Visual Studio 2005 Professional, and while taking a look to find this precious tool that was readily available in the previous version VS.NET 2003. I couldn’t find it. (uh!!! did i forget to install it ???? ) checked out but nothing done, checked on the web and reach a forum post which said. Application Test Center is no more available on VS.NET 2005, you can buy a new licence of VS.NET Team tester to to be able to use some stress tool. Ok how nice marketing strategy…

Anyway, i have been wandering around the web to find a proper web stress/load tool to be able to test my web developments. results have been pretty deceiving… could not find a proper tool for testing ASP.NET Websites. After some time i came up on sourceforge. to find this tool : WEBLOAD (Open source performance testing) which is the open source version of the recognised Radview Webload.

I’ll be now trying this tool and then give some feedback soon after.

Since back to the in october 2006, i have been invited to wallop beta. And now i still part of the “Wallosphere”, i have invitation to wallop for those who are interested in joining in to see what it’s all about here is how is has changed from my first post on wallop.

Just leave a comment with your name and i’ll send you the invite.

I’ve got lots of joost invites guys, just put a comment with your email and name and i’ll send them to you.

Theme is now widget enabled.

After an hour of widgets documenting, my theme is not widget enabled…

Now it’s time to create some widgets… I have a 2 sidebar widget content. Isn’t this cool !!!

Update

there was a bug in the funtion.php file… :S when i created a new

<?php

–not to forget the conditional tags

if(!is_admin()) //If you forget this the admin panel, might start given up on you
{

<!–
Some funny statements that send out the header….
–>

}
?>

But it’s fixed now, maybe i’ll find out some other bugs latter on.