Box.net came onto the online storage scene in early 2005 but a few months back revamped their design and pretty much re-launched with justified fanfare.
For those that don’t know, Box.net offers 1GB of free online storage or for just $4.99 per month you can have up to 5GB. Seriously cheap storage so where’s they catch? Well there doesn’t seem to be one. I have used the service now for a fair few months both in professional capacity upgrading and troubleshooting systems (it’s much handier than a USB key when working remotely!) and from a personal point of view sharing files with friends and family. In this time I have only found the site to be unavailable once which was for pre-planned maintenance and both download and upload speeds have generally been good.
There’s a folder in my documents that I regularly access that I wanted listed on my Start Menu. There are other ways of quickly accessing folders or documents such as having quick links on the taskbar or shortcuts on the desktop but the real advantage of this is the keyboard shortcut with the Windows key, the first letter of the folder and the return key.
- Open up regedit from using the run menu.
- Locate ‘HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ Folder\ shellex\ ContextMenuHandlers‘
- Add the following as a subkey: ‘{a2a9545d-a0c2-42b4-9708-a0b2badd77c8}’ (without the quotes!)
- Exit regedit…… (Continued)………
Michael over at Techcrunch gives a good write up on Yahoo Video, another video hosting site gunning for YouTube. In what’s turning into a crowded market place, Yahoo’s chances look good with the resources and personnel available to them since the Flickr acquisition. Interestingly Yahoo video is based around Microsoft’s Windows Media format and doesn’t just offer their own but aggregates video from other sites (just presumably not YouTube’s).
It’s a sensible move from Yahoo, establishing itself in the video market which will potentially become another form of revenue through advertising and paid video. Further as bandwidth becomes bigger the growth in this market will be immense as high quality video on demand becomes reality.
Derek over at 5ThirtyOne, pointed out this quality Ajax spellchecker for WordPress. Corrector, from Vanus01.net, is quite simply an excellent, must have plugin. Simply download and extract the zip into your plugin directory, upload and activate from your plugins panel on the dashboard. Available in 27 lingual flavours there really is no excuse for badly sletp posts again.
It seems EBay and Yahoo are pairing up, in what looks a mutually beneficial venture. Certainly if the share prices are to be regarded at least the investors believe so.
Under the terms of the agreement, EBay will incorporate Yahoo into their toolbar which has been downloaded over 4 million times. Further Yahoo will become the sole source for ‘graphical advertising’ on the site and provide some search based advertising. In return Yahoo will use Paypal, Ebays online payment service, as the preferred solution to their storefronts, shopping and subscription services. There is also a likely collaboration into click based advertising using the recently acquired Skype telephony service.
