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Posted by on 23rd August, 2014

What are your tools?

What are your tools?

Do the tools you use say much about you? It’s like clothing, right? You might wear a shirt because you simply like that particular shirt or you like the style… or the brand, color, fit, etc. The same can be said about the tools we use for our everyday tasks like email, calendaring, storage, etc. So, let’s see what these tools say about us. I’ll start; I’ll show you mine, if you show me yours… Email Gmail My default email client for many years. It is fast, robust, powerful and simple, yet highly customizable. Works across all my devices. Calendar Google Calendar A bit on the simple simple side, but very functional. Kind of like the search engine from the same company. Cloud Storage Google Drive Many contenders in this area, but its tight integration with Google docs, makes this an easy decision. It is fast, functional and with more tools and space than I will ever need. Storage Sync InSync Google drive comes with its default sync tool;...

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Posted by on 15th January, 2014

Cloud mining Datacoin

Cloud mining Datacoin

I missed the boat on buying hardware mining equipment but still wanted to try mining for myself. Besides the initial cost, the financials of electricity costs with diminished returns, it just didn’t seem profitable at the time, and even less now. Now, without owning any hardware, one can still mine with cloud hosted solutions; whether it is Azure, or any other cloud service, you just create a Virtual Machine, install the wallet software for the crypto-coin you want to mine for and let it run for days on end. Just come back after a while to check on your balance. On Digital Ocean, you can run a single instance for about US$5 per month. I picked a coin that is not very popular with low difficulty, so I could get some decent amount of coins in return for experimental purposes and not necessarily to make money. I picked Datacoin [datacoin.info] and here are the steps I followed for mining this coin: Go to digitalocean.com and create an account. Once...

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