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Posts tagged ‘Backup’

Mar 26

Export Your Facebook Photos As A PDF Album

Despite the fact that there are almost 1 billion people on Facebook, many of us may have friends or family members that are not computer savvy, or that have reservations about the privacy issues that revolve around using social media. If you use the service to keep online backups of your photos that can be easily accessed and distributed, it may be frustrating to share such content with these individuals.

Usually, getting photos out of Facebook entails downloading the photos, compressing them into an archive, and emailing them. If you’d like an easier option to explore, give Albums to PDF a try. Read more

Feb 24

Sync Online Media To Your Desktop With Social Folders

Cloud services, such as Facebook, Flickr and Google Docs, are great for their convenience and rapid development cycles, but many of us are uncomfortable with leaving the master copies of our data on someone else’s computers.

If you’d like an easy way to keep local copies of your online pictures and documents, you should try Social Folders. Read more

Jun 29

Learn How To Easily Retrieve Your Facebook Photos

Social media tools are excellent ways for us to communicate and stay up-to-date with friends and family. Yet, at the same time, we can become complacent with giving so much of our personal data to a third-party. Usually, we are assured that our data is in good hands and that there is a minimal chance that our information will be lost, but there should always be a way for us to access and backup any data we upload to a cloud service (i.e., data portability).

Today’s tool enables you to easily download your Facebook photos to your computer for safekeeping. Read more

Jun 20

Organize Your Digital Photos With Proper Archiving Techniques

With the proliferation of camera-equipped mobile devices, we are now all photography dilettantes, no longer encumbered by the limits of the analog world. We can take hundreds (or thousands) of photos without worrying about running out of film, and can download, edit and share our work without having to be concerned with decaying prints.

In order to maximize the benefits of digital photography, there are several principles anyone can follow, and Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig from The Bigger Picture has shared her recommendations. Read more

Jun 1

Backup And Copy Data Between Your iOS Devices

iTunes does an admirable job of ensuring that your iOS devices are periodically backed up during its sync procedure, but, as with most things Apple, the end user is not given much control over the process. Backups are encrypted and the data is not accessible save for completely restoring your device. A freeware application called iPhone Explorer can give you back control of your iOS data. Read more

Jan 31

Easy Way To Backup Your Firefox Profile

Consistent readers of this site know that I am a big proponent of open source software, especially the venerable Firefox web browser. If you are also a fan and have come to rely on the Fox for your browsing needs, you might be interested in learning how to create a backup of its most important settings and data. Read more