http://techotrack.com/archives/4407This is clever, I don’t need it and can’t see that I ever will – but it’s still clever..
You may have heard about technologies like JBOD (Just a bunch of disks)which allow you to link a bunch of harddrives you have into one driveletter. The upside is that you can ‘reuse’ those old drives you have lying around (normal RAID configurations require that disks be of the same size as a minimum), the downside is that there is NO redundancy/security in JBOD.
Drive Bender is similar to JBOD, it will allow you to link together free diskspace from a bunch of different drives into one single volume. One thing that is slightly different and potentially clever is that the technology is “non-intrusive” meaning that it will not destroy the existing filesystem (NTFS) – it will simply store it’s files on the existing filesystem (as I understand the technology), you should even be able to access files on the disks without going through Drive Bender.
As mentioned I can’t think of a sittuation where I personally would need this, that however does not make it less clever 😀
Right now it’s in a beta state and by invite only, so you’ll have to sign up for the next beta round.
Pricing is not revealed, one could hope it would be free 🙂
Have you ever seen those warnings from your browser “The HTTPS content you are…..” stating that the page you are loading contain both HTTP and HTTPS? The answer is most likely yes, sure you can disable these warnings (which due to their frequency may even be necessary) but for the sake of security or even just curiosity you may wish to know just what it is on the webpage that is HTTP and not HTTPS (often it’s simply an image, however if it should prove to be a java-script it might be a good reason for a raised eyebrow). Anyhow, how do you get this information? Well I found a mention of something called HTTP Watch in a forum somewhere (can’t remember where sorry), this is an add-on to IE/Firefox that will allow you to see what’s going on when loading a web-site, simply install – rightclick on the web-site and choose HTTP Watch – record and re-load/load the page and get the complete list of objects loaded..
Cool, and better still the Free version is quite sufficient 😀
