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Cloud Computing

eztechlife — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:09:21 +0000

I will try to explain the meaning of the ‘cloud computing’ term in an easy way: picture a cloud ‘floating’ in the sky… Pictured it? So you just got the basis of what is this very used IT term.

Cloud computing mean that you can have your information ‘stored’ somewhere in the net, using web-based technology. It means that you can have process, storage and software solutions designed using the web ‘space’ and tolls. We can say that cloud computing is the most evolved stage of virtualization.

What are the benefits of using this concept? You can spare a huge capacity of you server putting your information at the clouds and you can also be save that if something happens to your server, the information will be there, at the parallel cloud server and not lost somewhere at your server.

As you won’t need to spend money at infrastructure to develop a service or something at the clouds, you will also save money, what is just perfect these days…. ;)

Remember that this is a new and growing concept, for sure we will hear a lot about it!!

Check more about this at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

Short tip: http:// or www

eztechlife — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:51:25 +0000

As incredible as it seam you don’t actually need to type http:// or www to go to the web site you want to!!

For regular users that is kind of weird because we are already used to type the www before any address we want, but believe me, you don’t need to type that to go to the site you want. Just type the address.com and you will go to the right place. So let’s save time and typing…

Twitter, just great!

eztechlife — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:41:31 +0000

Twitter is a great tool that allows people to inform to their followers (you will understand this later) what they are doing using only 140 characters!!

It’s an easy and fast way to tell others some cool stuff you discovered, say something you think it’s interesting or just share your thoughts online …

So go to http://twitter.com and get yourself a profile. After that start searching for people that you find interest to follow and every time they post a comment you will receive it!! The other way around is the same … you write a post and your followers will receive it, just like a cycle. :)

I can guarantee that you will find a lot of cool users to follow and will have access to several interesting updates in a very unique way!! So, check it out.

By the way, my user at twitter is GisMullr. ;)

For further info check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

RSS: A Simple Way to Read News

eztechlife — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:33:27 +0000

Thanks to this resource, sites and blogs can promote their latest content in a fast and easy way. The benefit to users is that they can receive a summary of the latest updates from sites and blogs without actually visiting the site.

This resource is developed in XML and allows the administrator of these sites to divulgate their latest content in a link (with the summary of it or with the whole content) witch is kept in a .xml, .rss or .rdf file. This file is known as a feed, RSS feed.

The user interested in obtaining this latest news must include the feed link into a website that offers RSS reading service. Doing that the user will receive all the news he had subscribed to directly at the chosen website. The most used toll for this service, considering regular users is google reader.

It’s very important to reinforce that almost all sites offers RSS feeds so you will be able to find it wherever you want by looking for this symbol: . This is an efficient and simple idea that helps us filtering all the information available online. It delivers to us only the subscription we really want to receive. So instead of going after news, they will come after you!! ;-)

For further information check:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rss

http:// whatisrss.com

http://google.com/reader

GTD

eztechlife — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:14:53 +0000

What does it mean? Get Things Done

The genius that created it? David Allen

What is it anyways? A very good method helps on how to manage your actions, tasks … helps you better administrating the things you have to do.

This method gives us tips of how we can improve our productivity to make things quickly and efficiently. You can use the tips for both your professional and particular life; it is actually interesting to try it. ;-)

Check more about this at http://www.davidco.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done

K.I.S.S. Principle!

eztechlife — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:10:52 +0000

There is this a pretty cool principle called K.I.S.S. which mean ‘Keep It Simple, Stupid’ and defend that you must keep things as simple as you can avoiding complexity. This is a principle used in many fields such as design, software development, engineering, writing and so on.

I believe that this is also very nice to follow at presentations, interviews, schools tests answers and even at chats… That is no point for you to try to ‘fancy things up’ if you can keep it simple.

At work for example, if you can show your ideas preparing a 5 slides presentation do it. Don’t use 10 or 11 slides to impress your colleagues because they won’t be impressed, believe me. Changing the example to a simple conversation, don’t talk about things you are not sure about, and even when you are sure, keep it simple and don’t try to talk more than you know because you will get lost.

Much more important than understanding were you can use this in your reality is to understand the concept of this idea! ;)

Here goes a link about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle

Hello World

eztechlife — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:25:27 +0000

My main goal with this blog is to put into easy words the latest and coolest technology launches inside and outside the web!! I really wish to make easier the understanding of concepts like web application, cloud computing , web services and usability. All this to enable any ‘tech interested’ person to get to know these tools and understand that you don’t need to be a nerd to like, use and enjoy the web world!

I hope you enjoy!!

Very Important: I’m not a blog pro, so any tips are welcome…