SUN Shines in the list of Best employers survey ‘08’

SUN Microsystems fared up 19th (read top 20) in Best employers survey for the year 2008.  People voted in favor of Work-Life Balance as the top criterion for their sustained loyalty towards their respective employers.

According to research firm IDC and Dataquest, with the growing average experience in this relatively young software industry, work-life balance seems to be getting one of the top reasons in terms of employee satisfaction followed by compensation and benefits, growth opportunities, overseas exp. and location of the company to state a few.

Having personally witnessed, SUN Microsystems in India keeps its employees motivated at work by embedding work-life balance tactics into its internal policies. The company encourages telecommuting and pays out internet charges used for official purpose. Office wide WIFI, break out rooms, flexible work timings ensure employees are not tied down to their desk and can work from the corner of their comfort. New to the list are employee wellness initiatives through which company pays its employees to sweat out at a GYM of their choice. The open culture at this open source software company justifies the ranking its awarded. Congratulations SUN !

Complete Article on this survey can be read here.

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Link your blogs with related content using Sphere

Sphere (now an AOL subsidiary), provides a novel way of linking blogs with contextually relevant content from the web.

You could virtually spin your site as an information hub for your readers by embedding your blogs with Sphere widgets. The approach is bi-directional. Your readers get to read more on the topics that you publish and your blogs get listed into related searches on other blogs.

This synergy helps a great deal to enhance site interaction which results in acquiring new readers.

Here is how it looks on my blog :

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Online Storage : We All Need One

Online Data Storage is one of the safest ways of securing your critical data from any accidental digital loss or theft while you're on the move. This also helps to backup critical personal data and share them either selectively or publicly. 

With plummeting cost of storage media, there are many online alternatives available that are free for use.

Blogs can use this smartly as a distribution media for artifacts that they wish to share (example).

Here is the list of some of the best known web storage sites.

Choose your data insurance policy from here ...

• Use Your GMail account as a storage media and map it as an extension drive on your Windows Explorer. Use Option1 or Option2 for this.
• ESnips is another good alternative. It Offers 5 GB of free storage. Allows access controls and provides widgets for rapid bulk upload to the site.
• XDrive from AOL offers 5 GB of space free with Desktop Data backup widgets.
• Skydrive is a offering from Microsoft with 5 GB of free storage.
• ADrive offers 50 GB of free storage.
• Mozy is another good alternative for Data Backups. This EMC Company offers unlimited, automatic data backups of your PC at a very small monthly expense.
• Box.net is a paid service, however, Box Lite is available with 1 GB of free storage.
• DropBoks offers 1 GB of free storage with uploads as big as 50MB in size.
• AllmyData offers 1 GB of free storage.
• OnmiDrive is a storage aggregator that brings your web and desktop files to a single storage point. It also allows editing of office documents online.
• Openomy offers 1 GB of free data storage. It also provides developer APIs to access data in a REST-based way.
• Filesanywhere allows you to upload and share files through email links. 1 GB is offered for free accounts.

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Generate PDF like a breeze !

It is often desirable to have a desktop utility that could generate PDF out of documents that you read in various formats or share them with your team.

Here is an open source utility that you could download and install that does this job just right!

PDF Creator installs itself on your windows machine just like any other printer on your network. Thus, when you print, the printable content (document, web page, image etc.) gets converted into pdf document and can be saved to your file system.

Of course, Open Office also provides you with a pdf generator for the documents that you can open there but PDF Creator does it like a breeze!

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