E-Commerce and LAN Solutions

Now i’m not the first to predict that soon we’ll be seeing pcs with an operating system made by Google, and there’s still quite a bit of debate on the topic. Officially Google denied it, but in such a vague way that it’s not even an answer. For those of us who don’t balk at speculation, let’s see what we can come up with:

1. First and foremost, Google’s profit comes from pay per click ads on their search pages & adsense content sites. Google has offered lots of free tools & applications, all with the only real benefit for them being market share/mind share/branding/popularity. It all serves to drive up their main revenue source. Imagine a Google-infused PC that takes advantage of all their services & offerings. You’d have a Googler for life.
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A Google Co-op based engine that searches NetSuite resources

Last week Google annouced yet another great new feature: the ability to create you own customized search engines using Google Co-op. Of course the first thing that sprang to mind was to create a search engine for the NetSuite web developer. To gather all the sites I’ve found with guides, information and documentation on customizing NetSuite and make it easy to search them all. One of the problems I’ve always had when trying to learn some new feature or tweak was finding the information – there simply isn’t that much out there and it can be hard to find.

So I’ve added the 12 sites I’ve found with good information and put the search box in the header of my site. You can also use this search engine on its homepage. Please try it out and let me know what you think, especially if you have sites that aren’t in the list that I should add.

You can also try out some sample searches:

• froogle


• Google Analytics


• csv import

Offsite Disaster Recovery Made Cheap and Easy

Backing up important data has always been one of those things most people don’t think about until it’s needed and too late. Any good network admin will consider this an important area to address, but are often given insufficient funds. In the end, backups are like security – it’s a balance with cost on one side and benefits on the other. You can always be more secure and have a more robust backup strategy, but as with everything in business, there are limited resources and they need to be justified. Carbonite is a service I’ve found to score very well in the balance, providing a good service at a great price. Read my reviewing policy for more information about my methods.

Quickie Review: Carbonite online backup

Pros:

• Unlimited data backed up from one machine for $50/year. Very inexpensive.


• Easy to try, use, and buy.


• Worry-free. It’s always running in the background, doing its job.


• Stores your data securely offsite, so even a burned down building isn’t a total disaster.

Cons:

• You have to sign up for a year at a time.


• Each computer is a separate $50/year.


• Restore operations for large amounts of data can take days.


• You have to trust that your data is safe with them.


• Currently no ability to schedule backups, or take snapshots. Not recommended for database backups.


• You can’t backup your Windows folder, or restore your Windows installation

How it works

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Search Dominance in Your Grandma’s Internet

For almost as long as I’ve been aware there was a Google, I’ve heard people foretelling its imminent demise. Historically this is a smart bet when it comes to search engines – Over the short lifetime of the World Wide Web, quite a few search engines have come and gone. A number of them – Webcrawler, Altavista, Lycos – were the kings of search in their heydey, only to end up losing market share, dwindling in search volume until someone bought them up. They now live out their technological lives on the sidelines, as ‘out to pasture’ as a company can be and still exist. So it’s not hard to see why man people think Google’s time has come. A many search for google jump shark returns almost a million pages – that’s a lot of tongue-wagging.

Well, I’ll just come out and say it. The naysayers are wrong. Google will be king of search for a long time to come, and here’s why:

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Details of a Netsuite Customization Project

One of the projects I’ve been working on lately has gone live, and I like to annouce these things when relevant. In particular, this project highlights a number of lesser-known Netsuite customizations and techniques that the do-it-yourselfer might find interesting.


DNA Worlwide: DNA and Paternity Testing

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