Category Archives: Web Services

Death to Silos

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 … Continue reading

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Monitor Web Pages That Don’t Use RSS

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 … Continue reading

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Enabling OpenID

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 … Continue reading

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Using Jungle Disk and Amazon S3 To Backup Data

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 … Continue reading

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