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Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog New Visual Search Engine Arranges Results in a Large Collage May 21, 2009 at 12:56 pm Search results for Google (above) and Microsoft (below) Spezify is a new visual search engine that aggregates search results from multiples sources including Yahoo, Flickr photos, Twitter, Wikipedia, Amazon, eBay, etc. and then arranges all these results in one large & interactive collage. You can navigate individual results on this collage in either direction with your mouse or keyboard. Other than having a unique layout, the typography and colors used to represent different sources of search data makes the results all the more appealing. Worth spending some time but it can slow down the browser a bit. [via] New Visual Search Engine Arranges Results in a Large Collage - Published at Digital Inspiration (RSS) Now Ship Your Hard Drive to Amazon for Offsite Backup May 21, 2009 at 7:04 am Online backup services like Mozy, Carbonite, etc. are some good & inexpensive choices for storing your photos, home videos, music files, personal documents and other important computer files on to a remote location. Amazon S3 too can be used for automatic backup via Jungle Disk. The only problem with these web based services is that they aren’t really handy for storing very large amounts of data since all files for backup have to be transferred via the Internet first and that can be a serious bottleneck. For instance, it can take around 10 days to transfer 100GB of data over a T1 Internet connection. Let Amazon Backup your Hard Disk Imagine if you are a professional photographer or someone who frequently shoots video, chances are that you have stored all your life’s work on a couple of external hard drives but moving data from these local storage devices to a remote location over the web isn’t a practical option. Now Amazon has a simple "offsite backup" solution for you in the form of AWS Import Export that doesn’t even require you to have a fast Internet connection. You just have to ship your physical hard drive to Amazon via snail mail, they will upload data from the drive onto their servers and will then return the drive to you via snail mail again. Once the files are uploaded onto the Amazon cloud, you should be able to access them from any S3 client. Amazon charges $80 per storage device (so it makes sense to ship them data in large hard drives instead of multiple low-capacity storage devices) and around $2.5 per hour for data loading (i.e., from your hard drive to Amazon servers). So if you ship them a USB stick with 100 GB of data, it will cost you around $85 - see cost calculator. You can send Amazon as many storage devices (USB or SATA) as you want with any amount of data but just make sure that the proper connectors or cables for the external drives are included in the shipping package. Going forward, if your local copy of data goes bad, you can retrieve all the data from Amazon S3 via the web or, if the amount is large, Amazon can transfer the data to a portable storage device and deliver it to your home. Now Ship Your Hard Drive to Amazon for Offsite Backup - Published at Digital Inspiration (RSS) Compare Wolfram Search Results with Google May 21, 2009 at 3:45 am Firefox users can now use the brilliant Wolfram search engine alongside Google. Google and Wolfram on the same page This is possible through a new Firefox add-on that displays search results from Wolfram Alpha in a neat sidebar whenever you perform a search on the main Google website. You can use this to compare Wolfram Search with Google and the nice part about the add-on is that it auto-hides Wolfram from Google pages where there are no Wolfram results available for a particular search query. All results pages on Wolfram can be downloaded in PDF format. Give it a shot. Compare Wolfram with Google Compare Wolfram Search Results with Google - Published at Digital Inspiration (RSS)   This email was sent to xfeedr@gmail.com.  Create Your Account Don't want to receive this feed any longer? Unsubscribe here.