Category Archives: Web Services

Death to Silos

Posted by Josh Harrison on February 2, 2009 – 11:30 pm

One thing I have grown to dislike as a user of the Internet, software, and computers in general is how many sites and software think they are great enough to be alone in their own walled garden. Or silo.
What do I mean by silo or walled garden? It basically means that users are inputing data [...]

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Monitor Web Pages That Don’t Use RSS

Posted by Josh Harrison on July 21, 2008 – 11:38 pm

For a while I’ve been wanting to find a tool that would monitor a web page and send me an RSS feed when it gets updated. I found a few solutions.
But before I talk about the solutions, I first want to ask why there are so many sites that still don’t offer RSS feeds, except [...]

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Enabling OpenID

Posted by Josh Harrison on July 8, 2008 – 1:27 am

I have successfully enabled picklewagon.com as a delegate for my OpenID. This has been something I have been wanting to do for a while. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be.
What is OpenID?
OpenID.net says it best:
OpenID eliminates the need for multiple usernames across different websites, simplifying your online experience.
You get to [...]

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Using Jungle Disk and Amazon S3 To Backup Data

Posted by Josh Harrison on June 28, 2008 – 1:03 am

I have officially found a backup service I am happy with. I have tried other services in the past but wasn’t completely happy with them for one reason or another. After hearing about JungleDisk from various sources, I decided to give it a try. I’m pretty happy with it so far.
I have been using it [...]

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