SugarSync works almost the same as Dropbox. With it, you can backup, sync, share files from your desktop across all other devices—including Windows, Mac, iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian (S60 5th and Symbian^3).

While Dropbox only offers 2GB worth of storage for free, SugarSync is offering up to 5GB free storage, expandable by 500mb or 10GB for each referred free and paid user respectively. The user you referred will also receive the same amount of bonus free storage.

With most of the online backup sync services offering generous free storage, you can assign each service to sync a particular folder on your desktop and have most your files backed up online without paying a single dime—at the expense of installing multiple file syncing utilities.

Some other noteworthy free online backup sync services, all of them offers 2GB free storage:

• Dropbox
• SpiderOak
• ZumoDrive
• Syncplicity
• Mozy

That is 10GB worth of free storage combined, plus 5GB from SugarSync, you can have 15GB worth of data to be synced online for free.

This is what I usually do on YouTube when I’m on a slow connection:

1. Click play, then immediately pause the video
2. When the video is done loading, full screen and play it smoothly
3. Until recently, this has changed. Step 3 would be “Get pissed when the video is automatically bumped from 360p to 480p. The loaded 360p is gone. Now wait for the 480p version to load, all over again!“



Are you experiencing the same? If yes, this is something you can do:

1. Go to your account settings (Click on username on top right > Account)
2. Select Playback Setup (left sidebar)
3. Select “I have a slow connection. Never play higher-quality video.”



Works well for me. I can now watch 360p videos in full screen without any interruption. If you’d like to watch the video in higher quality, you can manually bump it up to 480p.

For no apparent reason, Facebook decided to reduce the News Feed font size to 11px from its previous 13px. You have two choices, either squeeze your eyes every time you use Facebook and hope that it will adapt to the small font size over time, or return the font size to its previous glory.

Ctrl-+ just won’t do the cut because everything else goes bigger as well, including photos and the blue Facebook bar on top.

Here’s a better way of doing it:

If you are using Firefox, first install Greasemonkey or Stylish if you haven’t already. Then go ahead and install this userscript/userstyle.

Reload Facebook on your browser and voila, the font size will be increased to its former bigger size. The userstyle works on other browsers too, including Internet Explorer, Chrome and Opera.

You can select your browser on the right green sidebar for installation instructions.

Facebook – Old Font Size

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Money Made

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Uptime, RSS subscribers

99.98% uptime for the month of October thanks to HostGator’s outstanding performance. RSS subscriber’s count is at 573 at the time of writing.

Your laptop? $1000. The data in it? Priceless. Even the most casual users will have sensitive data in their laptop to some extend, say, all the passwords you saved in your browser without a master password.

Simply imagine the laptop you are using now falling onto someone’s hand, being ransacked at will. Creepy isn’t it?

Enter Prey, a free tool to track your stolen laptop.

Prey is a small utility with minimal footprints that sits on your computer silently. You won’t be able to find any icons or launchers of Prey after installing, as to make sure the prey is unaware that he’s being watched.

Instead, all options are controlled via the web based panel. You can select some or all of these information to be gathered in your missing device’s report.

• Location (via GPS or WiFi triangulation)
• Hardware and network status
• Webcam image of the thieve
• Screenshot
• Running programs and modified files
• Lock down your PC
• etc…

Lifehacker‘s demo video basically summarized everything:

Prey works on Windows, Mac OS, Ubuntu, Linux and Android. You can track up to 3 devices and store up to 10 reports on a free account, which suffice for personal use.

Found an interesting link and would like to view it on your iPhone? Typing the entire URL onto your iPhone isn’t exactly a fun thing to do (especially when the URL is dead long), and emailing yourself is doesn’t sound elegant.

AirLink

AirLink, in my opinion, is the most convenient way to share a link from your computer to your iPhone. No account or registration needed.

Just visit the Install page and:

1) Drag the bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmarks bar
2) Bookmark the custom j.mp short URL on your iPhone

The next time you are on a web page that you would like to view on your iPhone, simply hit the bookmarklet you have saved earlier. A black box will appear and disappear almost instantly.

Now whip out your iPhone, visit the bookmarked j.mp link (in step 2) and you would be redirected to the desired page automatically. As simple as that.

notesforlater

If you still can’t rid the habit of emailing links to yourself, at least make it a simpler process. notesforlater, like AirLink, will provide you a custom bookmarklet upon submitting the email address you would like to use.

There are two bookmarklet. If you click on the first bookmarklet, notesforlater will email you the link, highlighted text, and the time you accessed the page. The second bookmarklet does exactly the same thing as the first, but with the ability to add personal notes this time.

Saves you from launching your email client, hit “Compose”, copy paste the URL and all that trouble just to share a fricking link.