Archive for category Cloud computing

RightScriptDiff – Maintain your RightScripts Locally

Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing, Linux on August 2, 2010

If you’re running servers in the cloud, particularly on Amazon’s AWS and haven’t heard about RightScale you owe it to yourself to check them out. I’ve been using their tools for launching and managing linux servers on AWS. They allow you to automate all of the tasks to launch a new box, and even run [...]

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Catching the Wave

Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing, Reviews, Software on November 6, 2009

I am something of a Google Zealot, I was using the search engine back before many people knew what it was and haven’t strayed since. I’ve been using GMail for the better part of two years, and it handles ALL of my incoming mail, I even forward all of the emails from my self hosted [...]

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My Twitter Client Search – Ended

Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing, Linux, twitter on June 10, 2009

Okay, so as you may already know I’m a big fan of any software solution that does what I need in a portable and platform agnostic way, particularly if it does it “in the cloud“. What you may not know, is that I’m addicted to Twitter and I’ve been going through desktop based Twitter clients [...]

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UNYK Address Book

Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing, Rants, Reviews on December 22, 2008

I just received an email today from one of my contacts on LinkedIn. It was an invitation to join this new UNYK Address Book application which is apparently in beta. I think I’ve made it clear that I’m a big fan of anything which centralizes my information and allows me to access it through a [...]

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Photo Sharing Services

Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing, Photography, Reviews on September 25, 2008

Since I became a dad, and bought a dSLR I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to store and share my pictures of my son, and other interesting stuff I shoot. As far as securely storing it locally, I have a sizable RAID setup that handles redundantly storing my pictures on two drives, [...]

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Livin’ on the web

Posted by RyanG in Cloud computing on September 9, 2008

Over the past couple of months, I’ve been transitioning a lot of my normal computing activities to the internet. What I mean by this, is where I used to use some software based solution for something that had to be installed on every computer I used, or had to be used on only a single [...]

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