Category: Services

The DNS system is great because it means you don’t have to remember the IP addresses of all the web pages in the world. You do, however, have to remember the IP addresses of the DNS servers. For most people, this isn’t a problem because DNS is generally a set-and-forget kind of thing. So if […]

Just got my first voicemail-transcribed-to-e-mail on my new Google Voice account. How cool – someone can leave me a message and what they say is converted to text and sent to me. And it works perfectly. Here’s the text of the message I got: hi my name is angie and i’m calling from kind of […]

Just wanted to alert all Schlog readers to a new blog I’ve started: www.StopBuyingServers.com. That blog will focus on “cloud computing” for small businesses. If/when I find something interesting to write about that is more relevant to on-premises computing, I’ll continue to post it here. Please forgive the extremely boring graphics at StopBuyingServers. One of […]

NOTE: If you’re smart and patient, you’ll completely ignore this blog entry. See, here’s the story. I started working on this about a month ago and I got almost all of it working except step 5 of the solution, which involved running FolderShare as a service. I’ve tinkered with it on and off for a […]

I had to create a support ticket at Dreamhost. I like their style. Here are a couple of the questions they ask, along with the options available in the pop-down menu: I’m not sure how well these responses work for people whose first language is not English, but I definitely appreciated the effort.

I was quoted in a ChannelWeb article about the launch of Adobe’s new on-line application suite, which is going to compete with similar offerings from Microsoft and Google. I’m not sure if it comes through in my one-sentence write-bite, so let me amplify here just a bit. When you schedule an event through an on-line […]

JungleDisk, which uses Amazon S3’s storage space for backup, looks like a promising competitor to Mozy and Carbonite. But it appears not to be targeted for server use — except for Windows Home Server, that is.

See Mary Jo Foley’s write-up of Microsoft Office Live Workspace. Why Microsoft insists on calling multiple different products with the same name, I’ll never understand. I’ve signed up for the MOLW beta waiting list. I’ll let you know what I think if and when I’m allowed in.

WebHost4Life’s SharePoint hosting architecture seems to mirror that of Mail2Web. Both of these companies allow me to create a SharePoint site in a subdomain of a domain hosted elsewhere, unlike 1&1. Both WebHost4Life and Mail2Web allow me to access my site at a fixed IP address prior to creating an A record in my authoritative […]

Still waiting for WebHost4Life to set up my SharePoint hosting site, so in the meantime I set up an account at Mail2Web.com instead. Setup wasn’t instant, but at least it didn’t require me to contact support. I just had to wait 23 minutes after placing the order until an e-mail arrived with further instructions. Mail2web […]