Photo courtesy of  John Doutch.

So how would you cope if your website server went down. Do you have a copy of your website, data, emails etc locally? Or would you be like this customer of Distribute IT who said “I think I’m in shock … I have lost everything …. I couldn’t possibly replicate all those years of work again … my whole life’s work is gone down the drain” or this “This new outage has probably killed my business, with over 40 of my clients running a special promotion on the web this weekend that is going to be a total bomb,”

A friend of mine is chief scientist for Stanford Universities libraries and we had a very interesting chat on a plane journey once where he explained their motto of “LOCKSS”. Quite simply it is “Lot’s Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe”. Pretty logical really but do you? Have you backed up your websites, emails or even family photos recently? And don’t just burn them to a CD or DVD as they have a limited life span too. I use external drives and lot’s of them.

So remember LOCKSS

The other is for H2 Ride a company specialising in the hire of Hummer cars & limousines. Check out  www.h2ride.com.au

“POTUS to address the nation tonight at 10:30 PM Eastern Time.” (POTUS being the President of the United States)

No one knew that the speech would be to announce the death of Osama bin Laden, but, according to the NY Times, Washington reporters were immediately speculating that the announcement may be about Bin Laden.

40 minutes later, at 10:25 p.m, Keith Urbahn, chief of staff to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,  tweeted:

“So I’m told by a reputable person they have killed Osama bin Laden. Hot damn.”

Just like that, the news spread like wildfire across the twittersphere and of course on to Facebook. At this point Obama would have been still writing his speech. It wasn’t officially confirmed by traditional media until 20 minutes later and President Obama didn’t speak until 11:35.

One twitter user described the raid as it happened. Sohaib Athar, unaware of what was actually happening, tweeted about the raid from Abbottabad, Pakistan.  If you are interested you can now also find Osama’s hideout on Google Maps including some interesting reviews.  Here are Sohaib’s Tweets :-

McCarthy, who is known to dabble in technology, said that while she did have a printed version of her speech, she started playing around with it on her iPad as she was called on late and continued to read it from there. The Bristol East MP, however, still maintains that her use of the device in the parliament was “pure coincidence.”

This follows closely on the heels of the recent report about the House of Lords permitting the use of iPads and other electronic devices in the debates. It’s great to see individual representatives embracing these technological advancements and it’s only a matter of months before we see widespread use of tablets in parliamentary sessions.

How does your current website appear on new technology like the iPad or iPhone?

Source: The Next Web

These are 2 classic examples where we replaced existing websites with funkier, brighter and more appealing websites. If you are running a daycare centre you really want your website to look fun and vibrant and if it’s a building contractor that works on multi million dollar projects you want your website to look clean and professional. We think we succeeded and the clients love them. Check out www.nambuccafdc.com.au & www.osborneanddowling.com

Firefox 4 launched on all major desktop platforms, in over 80 languages. It features “dramatic speed and performance advancements”, App Tabs and Panorama, making it easier and more efficient to navigate the Web. It delivers privacy and security features like Do Not Track and Content Security Policy to give users control over their personal data and protect them online. Firefox also incorporates Firefox Sync, powerful add-ons and extensions, as well as supporting modern Web technologies, including HTML5. If you haven’t already downloaded the browser, you can do so here.

If you are a Chrome user and want a fast browser, Firefox 4 might surprise you.

With thanks to The Next Web

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