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New ‘WP Pinner’ WordPress Plugin for Pinterest

Pinterest is such a rapidly growing social sharing network that bloggers really cannot ignore it. Now, WordPress bloggers can get a nifty free plugin called WP Pinner that does way more than share your Pinterest pins on your blog. According to WP Pinner folks, the plugin will allow bloggers to easily auto-pin WordPress posts, schedule pins [...]

Ex-Stanford Professor Starts His Own University in the Cloud

What motivates a professor, who is a Research Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, a Google Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the German Academy of Sciences, to abandon his job and start his own online university? It appears that thousands of enthusiastic students had much to do with Dr. [...]

CodeAcademy – Democratizing Computer Programming Education

Computer programming get’s a bad rap. The perception is that only Mr. Spock-types with a bent for math and caffeinated beverages are good at writing computer programs. Combine that perception with college courses that take students through stacks, linked lists, binary math, and compilers, and you end up with a narrow segment of the [...]

Steve Jobs – Living Outside the Box

Steve Jobs passed away on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 after losing his long battle with pancreatic cancer. His well-lived life is an inspiration to anyone with a dream, passion, and vision. Although it was very hard to watch the iconic Apple founder and leader step down from Apple in August of 2011, it was inspiring [...]

The 99: Global Super Heroes, the Internet, and Tolerance

Knowledge is power. It is a civilization’s soul and identity. Destroy a civilization’s collective knowledge and you destroy the civilization. The 99 series begins as librarians and alchemists in the ancient world work to preserve a great civilization’s knowledge before conquerors set out to destroy it. Ninety-nine stones, based on the ninety-nine attributes of Allah, [...]

Infographic: The State of IT Security

April 20th, 2012

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The Best Cloud Based Apps for Small Businesses

April 19th, 2012

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A full SD card is a thing of the past with these smartphone apps

Cloud-based computing Is vastly altering the storage and bandwidth needs of small businesses, and the next move is to bring the cloud to mobile devices. Here are a few free apps to consider when you’re making the change

Dropbox (Android, iPhone)

This is by far the most popular cloud storage service for individuals, and might be the right pick for your small business, depending on your storage needs. You get 2 GB of storage free, which is all you need if you’re just storing documents and spreadsheets for sharing between devices. With the Dropbox mobile app, you can share and edit files with employees, clients, or partners from your smart phone, so you can instantly and efficiently respond to concerns. If you need to store larger files or backup entire systems, you can upgrade to 50 GB, 100 GB, or 1 TB plans for $99/year, $199/year, and $795/year, respectively. One of the biggest draws of Dropbox is file backup—every version of each file is saved for thirty days, so you don’t have to worry about lost edits or drafts. (Cost: Free)

SugarSync (Android, iPhone)

SugarSync runs in the background on your phone and devices, automatically syncing selected files and folders from any number of devices to your smartphone, so you don’t have to pile everything you want synced into a single file structure like Dropbox. Browser access also allows you to use any computer with an internet connection to edit important files. SugarSync also saves five versions of each document for safety, and so that you can track changes as you collaborate with partners or employees on shared documents. The basic free storage is 5 GB, which might be enough of a selling point to choose it over other cloud storage providers, but more expensive paid plans make it a close second to Dropbox in our estimation. (Cost: Free)

PicPlz (Android, iPhone)

Creating a rich social-networking presence can be the most effective form of advertising for a small business. With PicPlz’s mobile app, you can snap a photo at any time from your smartphone, edit it using 15 tools, and instantly post it to one of seven social-networking platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Posterous, Foursquare). In the absence of an official Instagram app, this is a great way to quickly create hip, classy content to draw in potential customers. Problems reported by users of Samsung phones appear to have been corrected in the latest update, and the app appears to finally be bug-free. (Cost: Free)

Mozy (Android, iPhone)

Mozy and Dropbox have a great deal in common, but Mozy is a no-frills, much cheaper option—only $5.99 for 50 GB, and $9.99 for 125 GB. You lose a fair bit of functionality in the bargain, however: no public file-sharing, no real-time syncing of data (you can schedule periodic backups), and only five computers synced per paid account. This can make a huge difference, even for a small business, since getting Mozy for your home computer, office, and smartphone eats up three of your five allotted devices. Still, if you’re looking for seriously low-cost cloud storage and you have only basic file-sharing needs, Mozy might be a good fit. (Cost: Free)

Google Docs (Android, iPhone)

If all you really need to share between devices is documents and spreadsheets, Google Docs may be the ideal option. While other cloud storage options save conflicting documents separately, Google Docs allows you to edit a document together, in real time, showing who has made which changes in seconds. The benefits of being able to look at and make changes to a document with a client or co-worker in real-time are obvious, and being able to do it from your phone or tablet will make your business far more agile and responsive. (Cost: Free)