Here’s something for Scooby and the gang. A new service called Brace is using Dropbox to organize and sync files to personal websites. Seemingly targeted at consumers looking for a simple, drag and drop alternative to things like FTP and Github, Brace is offering a clean and straightforward interface for managing files and styles on a website. But where did Brace come from?
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GoDaddy looks to be having a rough one today. Users are complaining of issues with sites and email addresses tied to the popular and oft-controversial domain registrar. For the moment, GoDaddy’s own site appears to be working just fine, though the company has acknowledge its woes via Twitter, noting, “we’re aware of the trouble people are having with our site. We’re working on it.” According to TechCrunch, the outage has affected “millions of sites.”
Update: The company still hasn’t commented on the source of the outage, but a tweet indicates “most customer hosted sites back online…no customer data compromised” Meanwhile, Wired notes GoDaddy has switched from self hosting DNS servers to those of its competitor, VeriSign.
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GoDaddy acknowledges issues with sites, is ‘working on it’ (Update: DNS switched to VeriSign, ‘most’ customers back online) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Over-the-air firmware updates are mainstays for most smartphone platforms, but custom ROM builders have rarely had such a luxury, even with Android. The OTA Update Center wants to shoulder that noble burden. Along with simply hosting the updates to prevent outrageous bandwidth bills, the Center enables everything an Android ROM creator might need, such as update checks, on-device firmware flashing and wiping either a cache or all user data for the more dramatic upgrades. In practice, the real perk is the cost: it’s free to use, so everyone from hobbyists to seasoned teams can take advantage. While the list of those either using or planning to use the OTAUC isn’t public, we’re hoping it leads to a few more experimental builds of CyanogenMod and other ROMs that can now get the same tender loving care as the official code.
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OTA Update Center encourages PC-free upgrades for custom Android ROMs originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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