Author Archives: codemechanic

The Family CRM Service - A solution

Recently, Fred Wilson has expressed an interest for a Family CRM Service that can organize and store your family contacts in an easy to use fashion.
His major requirements are:
1. Import contacts from excel or word document
2. Organize the contacts - Tagging support
3. Email the contacts
4. Mobile apps to access the application.
After reading the post, it [...]

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Announcing Tonido Beta For iPhone

A picture’s  worth  a thousand words. What about few screen shots of Tonido iPhone application?

Internally, we have been testing the Tonido iPhone application for last couple of weeks. It is awesome and has become everybody’ s favorite. Now we would like to give an opportunity for our users to beta test drive the Tonido iPhone [...]

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[How-to] Install Tonido on a x86 ReadyNAS device

This is a quick guide to installing Tonido on your x86 series ReadyNAS (NXV, Pro, or Ultra) and has only been tested on RAIDiator 4.2.12. While this is fairly simple because the ReadyNAS runs Debian Etch, keep in mind this may void your warranty or cause your device to behave in unpredictable ways. I’ve tested [...]

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Startup Metrics for Pirates

Startup Metrics 4 Pirates (July 2010)

Nice presentation!!!

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How to become a millionaire in 3 years?

Recently, somebody has asked this question in Hacker News.
The following comment  appealed to me a lot. So posting it here.

- Market opportunity- a million dollars isn’t a lot in the grand scheme of things, but it certainly is a lot if the market opportunity is not large enough. Even if you put Bill Gates [...]

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Reddit comment from Happy Tonido User

I would recommend that you download the free Tonido software for desktops/laptops (pc/mac/linux) and check out the apps that come with it. It has a LOT to offer and there are only few minor differences between the free version’s apps and the version that comes with the plug. (holy narwhal dung, they snuck in a [...]

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5 reasons why you must choose personal cloud over public online services

Public Online  Services : Facebook, Twitter, Google & others

Personal Cloud: Tonido pioneers the new paradigm of personal cloud which allows users to store data locally but share globally!
Reason 1:
Whenever tech blogs raise hue and cry that the world is coming to an end because GMail and Google Apps are down , you can write a [...]

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Sad Reality

Gulf Oil Spill
Source: AP

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Pioneering Personal Cloud - Finally the user owns the data

What is personal cloud computing?
Let me start with asking the obvious question: What is personal cloud computing? To better understand this concept let’s use the following metaphor: Wallet vs Bank.

Like most people, I have a bank account, and my bank manages my savings, payments, retirement funds, and so on. Basically, the bank offers an advanced [...]

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Ten Reasons Why Tonido is better than Dropbox

Everybody’s darling DropBox is an awesome service that allows you to synchronize files among different computers. But the caveat is that the free account provides measly 2 GB storage. If you are looking for a free value alternative you might want to check out Tonido.

Tonido is an ultra simple personal server software that allows you [...]

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