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Zip Drive Stress Relief

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

I was just in a training today learning to make Real Estate blogs and websites. Whenever people heard something that made their life easier through technology, they breathed a collective sigh of relief. Since this is partly a psychology blog, I’m hoping this bit of of tech info will do the same for you.

Zip and encrypt are two words most professionals are familiar with.  In my line of work, teachers are regularly asked to review data and share it with grade level leads, district office leads, and principals.  Because of this, most my colleagues and I carry a keychain zip drive.  These have become increasingly large in disk space, mine for example is 3 GB.  While most zip drives have plenty of space, video and database modernization has taken up more space as well.  For this reason, it makes a lot of sense to zip and excrypt ones files before dragging onto a zip drive.  This makes your capacity much larger.

There is a contest I want to tell you about called “Decrypt and Drive.”  All you have to do is download free zip and encrypt software, by PKWARE the inventor of the .zip standard, and you are eligible for prizes that include a Honda scooter, bicycles, Wii games, gas cards, and more!  This is a product I have on my desktop and it helps me compress files for CD’s, key zips, and email.  I highly recommend you go enter the contest by simply downloading it.  Go to securezip.com now.

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Blogrolling.com Fast Losing Credibility

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Blogrolling.com has been down most of the last few days and I for one am about ready to toss out their service. I used Blogrolling because it’s easy to add and update blogs to it and it automatically updates all my blogs simultaneously.

I have other options: Wordpress’ native blogroll has its limitations but at least it stays on when your server is on. Technorati also has a similar code to Blogrolling.com. This is the problem with Blogrolling.com and other online services: when they go down you have no contact info or ability to complain. I can’t do my weekly Blog Safari until I get my blogroll going. Unfortunately, that means rebuilding it from scratch. I can guarantee you that unless they provide an explanation that is reasonable when back up, I will get my OPML downloaded safe and sound on my hard drive and get the hell outta dodge.

How long should you wait when online services are down?

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