Review: Lacie Pocket 500gb External Drive

Some days ago I bough the Lacie Pocket 500gb external hard-drive, and since then I have been very happy with my purchase. The HD is small enough to fit any pocket in my bag (3.19 x 0.71 x 5.08 inches [WxHxD]) and with the weight of 3 pounds, it makes easy to take everywhere. I know that having an external notebook hard-drive isn’t the safest way to store you precious data, but its a great place to store music, videos and photos in which you can take anywhere. At home I have my HTPC (Home theater PC) with a lot of free storage, so what I do is, I have a backup of all my data on the external lacie drive, and another copy of my precious things on my HTPC, this way I hope all my information is safe (I am also thinking on having another copy on the clouds [amazon s3]). Everything is backed up using a simple bash script made by me that will make copies to the external drive and to my media center via FTP.

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Review: WETPAINT Get your own Free Wiki

Surfing one the web, I found this great web 2.0 style project called WETPAINT, it’s a new free wiki hosting service where you can build you own wiki, similar to wikipedia, without needing to deal with hard mysql, php and server stuff. Within three simple steps you can have your wiki working, build your community, and start sharing some knowledge.

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HowTo: Backing Up All Your Photos From Flickr

Are you like me, who uploads almost every photo you take to your Flickr Account? Right now, I’ve uploaded 6,472 photos. What if the hard drive where all your precious pictures are stop working? What would you do, start downloading your pictures from Flickr one by one, no way right?

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PayPal Fee Calculator

Today I`ve found a very useful website for me, it`s called “PayPal Fee Calculator“. As I use a lot of PayPal to get money from many different sources and to pay things, like ebay auctions or MediaTemple Hosting plan.

When some ones make any kind of money transfer using PayPal, they usually charge %2,9 plus U$0,30. So, if you send U$100 to someone, they should receive U$96,80. The problem is that the person who is receiving the money, not always get those U$96,80 , so usually you should send some more money.

To make your life easier, you can use the PayPal Calculator. The website makes many different currency conversion, and even reverse calcs, where you set the amount that the user wants to receive, so you can see how much you should pay so he will receive what he wants. So, if the seller want`s to receive U$100, you should pay U$104,37.

It`s easy, just go to PayPal Calculator and start your payments.
http://ppcalc.com/

Learn PHP + XML + Flash

I was looking for some tutorials on the web about how to make Flash galleries using PHP and XML, and came to thins very complete site where you can find many tutorials about what I was looking for and much more, like Photoshop, C# .NET and others.
Worth visiting www.kirupa.com

New Prison Break Action Figures

The two main characters from Prison Break will turn to action figures,
Hot Toy will release till the end of the year, Michael Scofield and his brother Lincoln Burrows. With 30cm and comes with detailed clothes, very fancy!

There are two models, Scofield with suit (called Michael Scofield Street Clothing) and with prison clothing. There will be also the same scheme for Burrows (Lincoln Burrows Street and Lincoln Burrows Prison)

The “toy” will cost only U$89,99 ($$$$²), which is for pre-sale at Sideshow Collectibles.
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Test Everything for your website in only one place

Here goes a nice advise for those who work in the web business. Test Everything concentrates in only one place, more then 100 web services and tools to help web developers. Tools are divided in 8 categories, in which you can find many different services to help your website.

With Test Everything you can test for example CSS and HTML validators, PageRank, Domain Status, “Who Link To Me”, Technorati status, Server status and much more. Worth taking a look!

Take a look now at the website.

Ning – Building your own MySpace

If you would like to create your own social network, Ning is made for you. With this powerful tool you can create networks with its own URL, detailed members control, even a photo and video upload system. In the configuration tool, you can make blogs, forums and RSS for your community.
I’ve created a Digg Network Community, please join here to see what happens.

MindMeister Review

Today I just got an beta invitation to MindMeister, a very nice mind mapping web-tool that helps you to create your personal map. A MindMap is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualize, structure and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, and decision making.
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