The Website of Sami Khandali. http://www.samikhandali.com Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:21:43 +0000 en I noticed that a lot of internet users feel that their data is secure when they put it online in some file storage websites or using backup services, or even worse, they just don't care about it. This statement became more true when the naive user is faced with a web 2.0 service, "yeah, cuz it's so clean and simple, and it's in AJAX so it must be secure!" [don't ask him what does AJAX actually mean]. This article will essentially focus on security in new internet services (2000-2007). http://www.samikhandali.com/articles/security_file_storage_web2.shtml Sami Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:21:43 +0000 These days, I’m using several websites where I can safely store my private documents, share some photos with my family, send some videos to friends, or even send and receive email with my favorite email (Mail.app) client without having to deal with POP, and recently to organize myself with a calendar. http://www.samikhandali.com/articles/three_webapps.shtml Sami Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:12:56 +0000 Let’s get started. According to the WikiPedia, a webmail is a “term referring to an e-mail service intended to be primarily accessed via an web browser, as opposed to through an application such as Mozilla’s Thunderbird, Apple’s Mail or Microsoft Outlook”. In 2004, Google (GOOG) launched its GMail Beta service and definitely shown to us that webmails are powerful applications that could replace our OS based applications. However, we must admit that the first well-known webmail is HotMail (by Mircrosoft) followed by Yahoo! Mail in 1997. http://www.samikhandali.com/articles/best_free_webmail.shtml Sami Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:03:19 +0000 I used both Omnidrive (Nik Cubrilovic, http://www.omnidrive.com) and steekR (Christophe Comborde, http://www.steekr.com) and I believe that Steek is better. Omnidrive has lots of good and unik features (for example : Live Folders, ZIP extraction, WebDAV acess with a Pro subscription), but the package also comes with some “bugs” that makes the file sharing experience turn into a headache (sometimes you’re stuck with the very slow logins, the sync on the win/mac client that forces the user to wait for its 20 gigs of data to be downloaded, the vista look of the web interface, the buggy web interface [on FF]). While Omnidrive limits the bandwidth (traffic) for free users to 5GB, SteekR have no limits and lets you share your files however your want. Just to make thing clearer, both are offering 1GB space for free and are letting you editting your office (word, excel) documents using Zoho. http://www.samikhandali.com/articles/steekr_vs_omnidrive.shtml Sami Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:13:09 +0000