Dropbox.com – Your Free Secure Data Backup and Sharing Solution

So what is Dropbox.com? Dropbox is an online software that allows you to set up a share folder on your computer that is securely stored on the Dropbox servers in the cloud. This folder appears by default in your my documents folder. Drop whatever you want in this folder (free …

The birth of Findinjp.com, and its transition to YoNinja.com

Back in the summer of 2005, I created a simple online directory of restaurants, bars, and sightseeing destinations. The purpose of this online directory, was to document my favorite places in Japan, hence it was decided to purchase the domain name findinjp.com. The website also served as a tool to …

How to Create High Quality (HD) Screencasts for the Web

I will quickly describe how to create HD quality screencasts for the web. The key to creating screencasts that end up looking great all depends on how you started to create your videos. I recommend to use Camtasia for all video screencasts, it’s an amazing piece of software and very easy to get the hang of it …

Preparing a Ubuntu (or other distro) Web Server for Drupal

So I recently created a VMware application with Ubuntu to test some of my Drupal sites offline. You can easily install Ubuntu by downloading one of their Images, I recommend 8.04.4 LTS (Hardy Heron) as it comes with Php 5.2. Anything after Hardy Heron comes with PHP 5.3 which causes …

How to Start a Windows Application when your Computer Starts

I’m going to show you how to make a Windows program start automatically when you turn on your PC (without requiring you to login to your account). Typically software that is meant to run unattended will have an option to run as a Windows service. This enables the application to …