If you run a business or application built with Rails then one of the key first things to address is ensuring things are always backed up, daily where possible. I’m sure you’ve all heard the horror stories, there are lots of them.
There’s a few things to consider here:
- The cost needed to develop a solution to manage the backups
- Where to store the backups
- The cost of storage associated with the backups
- The impact running a backup might have on the current server resources
- How to restore backups in the event of a crash/hack
Luckily for you, there’s a number of solutions out there that not only make backups a breeze, but also do in a very, very cost efficient manner.
Almost all of the solutions below utilize Amazon’s S3 storage, which costs around $0.15 per GB / month to store data. [click to continue…]
Chrome Extensions are here for PC & just today Google released a beta version of Chromium for Mac with Extension support. If you’re wondering which extensions to get on to first then we’ve put together a short list of our favourites to date. What we love about Chrome is that it feels like you can do everything you need from within the browser, you can integrate most of the things you use separate applications for like Email, Twitter Clients & RSS Readers.
Feedly is perhaps hands down the best feed reader we’ve ever used. I personally missed it when I made the change from Firefox to Chrome, but now I can read all my favourite feeds again in all the Magazine like glory.
What we love about Feedly:
- Easy integration into Chrome, feels like part of the browser.
- You can segment your feeds into categories
- Save articles for later if you’re just scanning through
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There’s no doubt been a time in your life when you have to buy a present for that person who has just about almost everything. But fear not, help is at hand. We’ve compiled our top 50 favorite presents & gift ideas for the geekier people you know (if none of these work you may want to look at our top mens gadgets).
The Tenori-On is your own personal pocket synthesizer, it has a 16×16 grid that acts as a sequencer and has a number of modes (Score, Random, Draw, Bounce, Push, Solo & Advanced).
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We love concepts here at StoreCrowd, maybe it’s because we like things we know we’ll never be able to have. However, if you’ve been reading our other posts you’ll come across some beautiful futuristic concept cars, 25 gadgets for men (there’s a beautiful concept bike in there by Alberto Del Biondi) & our favourite cell phone concepts.
This time around we’re looking at our favourite concept watches in 2009. But, can you guess which one of these watches actually ended up be produced?
Swatch Infinity
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