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If you find yourself one morning with your dropbox client not connecting to the server, and you trace the problem to the company/ISP ( or country if your in China :-p ) firewall then you can put the kind words for them to the side a little and try the following.
Most of the firewalls block the main IP for dropbox.com 174.36.30.70 but the alternate IP is open

So add this to your hosts:
174.36.30.71 www.dropbox.com

Hope it works for you.

It seems to a bit of an old news, but i just found out about it

Google has launched Google Analytics Data Export API beta and is now publicly available to all Analytics users. This i think opens up a whole new realm of possibility in terms of web traffic analysis. And it is a very good news for all companies in SEO and SEM domain.
Imagine accessing all the data from the Google Analytics from your own application, automating reports send to clients.

I am looking forward to see the applications that will be build with the new API.

Cheers

I have been using flickr for a while now, i even got a Pro account but i got to admit that i always have craved for desktop uploading tool. As much as i like the flickr service the fact is that google’s picasa has the upper hand when it comes to client software with its picasa client.

Well it seems Yahoo has finally has heard the cryings of its users and released a better client for uploading pictures and videos to your account : Flickr Uploadr 3.0.

The Uploader lets you select photos for upload, add tags, organize them into sets, and change privacy settings.

So basically it does what it says it does .. uploads your pictures. I would have been much more excited if they had integrated more suport for managing sets and colections.

Cheers

No that is not a mistype or a scam i am pulling, this is for real.

How many times did you need a place to put your content, your files someplace online so you could share it with other people ? Did you find a service that offers it for free ? Well i did but they usually offer like a couple of gigs, and not 1TB.

The service i found via chris pirillo is oosah.com

Oosah is a Web-based digital media content hosting and management system. Oosah provides individuals and businesses with an all-in-one service for uploading, hosting, managing and sharing their digital media assets. Members can also use Oosah to create new media assets in the form of multimedia presentations that we call “oosahs.”

First, Oosah is very intuitive and easy to use. Oosah features are accessed using the same drag-and-drop, and keyboard commands that you are familiar with from desktop applications.

Second, Oosah gives you a full Web-based File Manager. The Oosah File Manager gives you the ability to organize your content better than any other Web 2.0 content hosting site.

Third we give you more sharing options than any other site. Not only can you share content by emailing, or by linking/embedding in other sites, but you can also podcast your content, or you can download it and burn it to CD/DVD for off-line distribution.

We even let you print your photos at full resolution on your local printer. There are other features unique to Oosah as well, which you will find as you use it, and more are coming.

Not only this but the service can connect to other websites such as youtube, flickr, picasa and facebook to herlp you manage your content.

They even have a desktop application for gamers that instantly uploads screenshoots to your oosah account, by just pressing the print screen key, pretty coool.

Combine all of that with 1TB of storage … and you have a winner

Created at Oosah.com