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This one will keep you humming the tune all day long. Who knew that working at a server farm could be so much fun?
Have any other interesting hosting videos to share? Sent ‘em to me at mitch@mitchkeeler.com and I’ll share them with the web hosting world.
Humyo.com is a new personal file hosting service that is now giving away 30GB of disk space for free to people who sign up today. The tag line here is “access your life” and they want you to be able to reach the documents and file you need anywhere at any time.
You receive 25GB for Photos/Music/Videos and 5GB for other files. You can also play your music, watch your video and edit your documents from any location. Signing up for the free version will also give you a 14 day trial of the desktop client they have which promises to make transferring data from one PC to the other a simple task.
Need to access your files on the go? They have the ability to get to your files via your phone or PDA. You can also e-mail your files without worrying about file size limits. One more nice feature of the free service is you can publish your files on the Web from Humyo. The only thing you have to live with would be the Humyo logo in the bottom corner.
Paid users of Humyo can also:
Paid customers also get access to 100GB of disk space, and 100GB more can be added at any time for an additional $99.99 per year. The regular price for paid users is $59.99 for the first year then $79.99 per year after that.
I got an e-mail last week, where Tom was wanting to know…
“Hi Mitch, love the podcast. I have just started up a reseller account of my own but I am in need of some billing or shopping cart software that will make it easier to resell the hosting space I have purchased. Any suggestions?”
Sure, phpCOIN is a great solution for this type of problem. Some of the features it provides includes:
Point your browser to phpCOIN.com and visit the download page to pick up the full package, and then install on your own hosting space. If you have any other alternatives for Tom when it comes to free billing software for web hosting resellers drop in a comment.
Here is an interesting idea. Would you like to have the domain name yourname.yourbusiness?
How about firstname.lastname?
Well thanks to those wacky and crazy people at ICANN and a few bottles of expensive French wine, we might see that go into effect sooner than you would think. In an unanimous vote held in Paris, France last week ICANN has given approval for new top-level domain names including multilingual ones. No longer will you just have the traditional domain name extensions. Now you could practically have anything dot anything registered once all the regulation and paper work has gone though. Unless something goes wrong, this should all go in effect in 2009.
Dr Paul Twomey, the chief executive of ICANN had an interesting quote:
“Like the United States in the 19th Century, we are in the process of opening up new real estate, new land, and people will go out and claim parts of that land and use it for various reasons they have. It’s a massive increase in the geography of the real estate of the Internet.”
Yeah, you’ll be able to claim a part of it if your a multi-million dollar company or have a hidden stash of cash hidden under your mattress.
Don’t let your blood boil yet. I highly doubt that your traditional top-level domains are going anywhere. People already have in their head that a web site domain has to be something with a dot com behind it (or dot org, dot net, ect). Also it isn’t like you or me will be setting up our own domain name extensions because the application fee to get it going will cost around $100,000 or more.
Programs that promised to help me update my blog stopped being interesting the first time I tried one. Why? None of them seem to do it all. That was my point of view before I found Windows Live Writer and I have to say, I am happy that Microsoft was able to make me give this software genre another chance.
Windows Live Writer is great. All you do is plug in your WordPress (or any other CMS or blogging service you use) information, and it figures out and does that rest of the work for you. Then you can write you posts as you would in any other word processor-type program. You also can format images, save drafts, edit tags and categories and more.
Video: 2: Basic Authoring – Windows Live Writer
Download Windows Live Writer and give it a shot. The icing on the cake is the various previews you can generate. You can edit and write via the standard interface or via an interface that gives the appearance that you are writing there on your own web site. The Web Preview feature is also good to show you what the post’s format will look like once it goes live. This is by far one of the best software packages to come out of Microsoft.
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
