Only recently did I realize that we can actually set our computer to back up automatically at a certain preset time and save our data in an online server. Call me slow or whatever, I am not that technical anyway.

Since the day my friend told me about this amazing technology, I have been rather obsessed with Online Backup and searched all over the internet for similar services offered from various companies.

I came across IBackUp and as I understand it, they are the leading provider of online backup especially for their performance and feature-rich packages must suited for small businesses. They even have awards to show!

I wish I had known about online backups a long time before. I lost so much data recently when my computer was struck by Trojans and I did not have time to backup everything manually *sigh*

Bu there’s good news! IBackUp has just released a new offering to backup Oracle databases online and restore the Oracle server databases from your computer the the Oracle server WITH WINDOWS APPLICATION. Amazing, isn’t it?

The other day, I just formatted my computer and was lazy to install all my instant messengers. My friend told me to use Meebo. I have never heard of Meebo before, after all the internet is so huge, one can’t know about everything that is happening online even when she spends 25 hours online daily!

Meebo is rather nice to use, although its interface is like Yahoo! Messenger. If you have a Meebo account, you could log in to ALL your major messenger accounts at once from the web. Otherwise, you can only log in to one messenger at a time through the Meebo website.

Messengers that are supported include AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ and Jabber. It also supports many of the world’s languages, including Bahasa Melayu. It’s kinda cute when I switched to Bahasa hehehe

And then there’s Meebo Me, a cool chat widget that you can place on any web page and chat with your visitors. I used Chatango previously but may change to Meebo Me soon! Let’s see which is cooler!

Sometime back, I was actually advocating Lasik laser surgery for my friends who have to depend on glasses. However, I subsequently found out that not everyone will come out of Lasik better than before. Statistics show that approximately a million patients who have received Lasik suffer from complications. My, that is a lot of people, isn’t it?

When I came across this Lasik complications resource site for people with Lasik problems, I just have to blog about it. As many people depend on the internet for information, I feel that the more people who talk about this useful resource website, the easier it is for people to receive the much needed information in plain language on complications that rose from Lasik.

Statistics show that less than 3% of Lasik or other similar eye surgery patients have an unresolved eye complication six months after going through the procedure with 0.5% of these patients suffering from long-term problems. While in percentage wise, this figures are small, we should still reach out to the people.

Complicated Eyes, which was founded by patient advocate Mr. Glenn Hagele, is a sister site of USAEyes.org. They share the same bulletin boar for patient Q&A. Moreover, this organization has a global network of specialist doctors to help patients in need.

If you are or know of anyone suffering from Lasik complications, do check out Complicated Eyes.

My friend told me that he discovered a great motivation software that is perfect for me. For one, there is so much negativity happening in my life right now, I really need something to motivate and encourage me. Secondly, I spend a lot of time at the computer, so this software will be really useful for me.

This software, aptly called the Motivator, is a nifty computer tool that is free to download and install. We can then input whatever we want to motivate our self for or any reminder messages that we would like rotated and this tool will pop up that message ever so often giving us the reminder or just that little push of encouragement throughout the day.

I downloaded my free copy of the software and have already started using it. It is non-intrusive, non-resource hogging. I believe that using this motivator, I am even able to kick some of my bad habits. I am sure we do need a good nag once in a while, don’t we? So go and grab your copy now!

I came across this website while being vain and searching for “who links to me”. To my surprise, I discovered that somebody has posted my blog to RatePoint and gave me a 5-Star rating! Woohoooo!!

Unfortunately, I closed my window without remembering to take a screenshot of it. I could not find my blog again and there isn’t a list of blogs on RatePoint that I could search for manually according to alphabetical order and neither did the search function work. At least it did not turn up my blog although it is somewhere in there.

Do I HAVE to register in order to access the database of blogs? Without registering, I could only find the most recent ratings while mine was rated three weeks ago. *sigh*

I hope that websites would open up and let the public access certain information without having to register with the site. I know that websites need to build their membership base but it’s not like the site has any private and confidential information, you know?

What surprised me about being rated on RatePoint is that I did not know that there is someone who likes to read my blog enough to take the trouble to rate it on RatePoint but not take the trouble to leave me a comment or mail me to let me know about it *double sigh*

I previously came across a few video format converter utility and quite like the concept. However, they were not able to convert the video files that are supported by iPod. While I do not personally own an iPod, I have a friend who is a technology geek and he owns some of the latest electronic gadgetry and I am lucky enough to get to play around with them too.

So we discovered an iPod Video Converter Suite that could convert any video files into iPod movies.

Upon successful conversion, we then save it to our iTune library and sync with the iPod. It was all very simple that even I could do it!

The PQ DVD to iPod Video Converter Suite retails at $39.95. You actually can download and install the software first. You will be sent a full license via email upon payment so buying this software is very convenient.

This suite is actually a combination of “iPod Movie Video Converter” and “DVD to iPod Converter” which cost $29.95 each so $39.95 is a real steal!

People who know me in real life know that I have not touched the newspaper or watched TV since three or four years ago because I have been so busy with work, taking care of my monkeys, blogging and a thousand and one other commitments. Heck, I don’t even have time to brush my hair!

Anyway, last night, my friend told me about FreeTube. I don’t know how long this site has been live but it did say 2007 so it should be fairly new.

My friend said that since I spend SO much time in front of the computer, I’m only wasting my bandwidth if I do not stream some videos. True also, hor? Well, I used to watch stuff on YouTube but my internet connection is not that great despite calling itself Broadband. I can’t watch a YouTube video without continuous buffering so what I did was to download the video onto my computer and then watch it from my own player.

Since my internet connection is the same crap, I do not expect a smooth experience with FreeTube and neither do I know if the TV shows are downloadable. However, if the show is interesting enough, I am willing to open up a browser and just let the show run in the background while I work in another browser window in the foreground.

Last night I tried the site out though I will not tell which station I selected *ahem* but woohoo I’m gonna be watching “TV” again!