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Store All Files at Amazon S3

Amazon S3 cloud storage has changed the way I manage files on my networks. I am centralizing all file storage across my web site and applications to Amazon S3. All heavy file types: ...
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Should We Have More Open Cookies?

Cookies store information about us and our surfing habits (and they are yummy). One of the secure things about a cookie is that you can only access it within the web site to which the cookie belongs. So if you are visiting www.kinlane.com I can put a cookie on your computer, bu...
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Remote Workstation and Server Access with Iphone, IPad or Android

Wyse PocketCloud gives you access to a cloud, your PC, Remote Desktop Services, a Terminal Server, VMware View or virtual machine securely from your desktop and your Read more →
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Private Label Cloud Provider

Tired of sending people to Amazon, Rackspace, or GoGrid. You can now start your own cloud computing provider. TelasticStack allows you to offer your own brand of cloud servers: Turnkey Cloud Platform Deployment Within...
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Improved Google Chrome Plug-In Security

The Chromium team talked about improved Google Chrome plug-in security today. Apparently we are seeing more and more security exploits targeting browser plug-ins. Since many plug-ins are ubiquitous, they pose the most significan...
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Google Docs on Iphone, IPad, and Android

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Firefox 3.6 and Flash

I'm waiting for a server to finish installing some updates. I close my Firefox...then try to open. Then once I open I'm given option to upgrade my Firefox, why sure. kinlane-productions2 Once I restart I get: Chrome embraces Flas...
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Encrypted Connections with Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Amazon published today that Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports SSL encrypted connections. You can now generate an SSL certificate for each database instance. Here are a few of the details abo...
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Amazon S3 - Access Logging

I was mapping some subdomains to various Amazon S3 buckets today. I decided to use the new Amazon S3 interface available in the Amazon Console, instead of S3Fox for a change. I was setting the permissions for a new bucket and I noticed kinlane-productions2 for each bucket. For some reason this has escaped me. I see in the Read more →
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Amazon Load Balancer - Port Configuration

When setting up your Amazon Load Balancer you need to configure ports and protocols that the load balancer will route traffic for. Traffic can be routed from any load balancer port to any port on your Amazon EC2 instances. By default, the lo...
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Twitter User Influence

When harvesting thousands of Twitter profiles and evaluating them at a macro level....you really have to come up with a definition of what is a quality or influential Twitter user. What makes a Twitter user influential: Number of Followers Number of Retweets Number of Tweets
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RSS: < author > vs: < dc:creator >

I am always willing to admit when I'm wrong. I was just railing on a site for not providing <author> information in their RSS feed. I'm used to pulling the author name using the <author> tag. I come to learn that <author> tag is just meant for the post author's email address. <dc:creator> is truly meant for the name of the author. I didn't know this. I had to Google it and I came up with this post explaining Read more →
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Move Your Business to the Google Cloud

I was just reading a great testimonial of moving your business to Google Apps. I use Google Apps as a starting point for all my domai...
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Internet Explorer 9 - HTML 5 Support

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Cloud Storage API Standard

I was reviewing a cloud backup product, CloudBerry Backup yesterday. Each time I try a new cloud storage product I can't hel...
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Red Hat Wants a Portion of the Cloud

Red Hat has been part of the cloud with services like Amazon EC2 since the beginning, because they are a leading open source platform. Not be outdone by other technology providers, Red Hat is ...
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Google Chrome Embraces Flash Further

Google releasde Google Chrome 5.0.375.86 on Thursday which includes integrated flash player being enabled by default. Interesting positioning by Google in the Flash v HTML5 battle. Google Chrom...
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Discover New Technology

Right now I use 3 main ways to discover new information and technology: Google Reader Google Alerts Twitter I have other ways I find information, but these are my 3 primary sources currently.
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DARPA Wants to Change the Way We Think About Computing

DARPA wants your help to change the way we approach computing. Everything today depends on computers, and to meet the relentlessly increasing demands for great...
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Cloud Storage with CloudBerry Backup

I am always trying to keep an eye on various cloud storage solutions. A company called Cloudberry has been offering an Amazon S...
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The Rise of the Cloud

As our home and work lives have become increasingly mobile, the demand for web-based software and information storage has exploded. But as the amount of digital content created grows exponentially, there are concerns as to whether the cloud is growing fast enough to keep up. kinlane-productions2 Read more →
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Small Business Backup and Recovery in the Amazon Cloud

kinlane-productions2 Many businesses are growing into the clouds, but there are still are many on the fence. Before a business moves their entire small business setup to the Amazon cloud, they might consider using Read more →
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Semicolons in JavaScript are Optional

JavaScript is a scripting language where semicolons as statement terminators are optional. I have never found a conversation about this, I just stumble...
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Scalable Web Operations

I was just reading thoughts on scalable web operations, observations/thoughts on web operations collected from a fe...
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More Access and Profile Data through LinkedIn API

kinlane-productions2kinlane-productions2 LinkedIn released some changes to their LinkedIn Open API today. They have: Increased Search API Throttle