Backups Online: The Internet Remembers
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Earlier this week we talked about using online backup services for offsite safekeeping of our files and photos.
But many of us have stuff that lives online and not on our home computer, like blogs and websites, and all our goodies at Del.icio.us and Flickr, et. al.
I feel sure we can depend on social media sites and online services like Jott and Remember The Milk to protect what we’ve put out there. And that’s not fangirl talk.
The bottom line is that their bottom line is 100% dependent on their ability to 1) provide the service, and 2) preserve our data. And not necessarily in the order.
So with our links, photos, reminders, and schedules in trustworthy hands, we only need to worry about backups for our websites and blogs. And really, we don’t need to worry (much) about those. Here’s why— Read more
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Many, many moons ago, I finished a lengthy document and saved it to one of those portable thumb drives? Shortly thereafter the crappy little thing died, the document was irretrievably lost, and I had to do it over.
A short and somewhat ordinary story in retrospect, but if you’ve ever lost a document—or an afternoon’s work—you know that the actual moment was long and vibrant, full of colorful language, whimpers of denial, and gnashing of teeth.
The aftermath was just as exciting, between trying to revive the thumb drive (deader than a hammer), attempting to recover something—anything!—from the computer I had worked on (a public PC wiped clean between users), then sadly and frantically recreating what I had lost. All before a nearing deadline.
And all because I didn’t have a backup. I could have avoided those hours of tearful re-work by simply emailing myself a copy.
Thankfully, with nifty Web tools and the Internet’s nostalgic tendency, it’s nearly as simple to store all of our files somewhere (else) safe and recover archived copies of our Web work.
My mother is a recovering perfectionist. It’s been decades since she ironed pesky wrinkles from her cotton socks, and just last week she left a dirty dish in the sink overnight…imagine!
And while I’ll joke about her few remaining semi-obsessive habits, there is one that I appreciate and fully embrace: Anything that touches your skin or that’s with you all day must be great quality.
That may sound crazy—and heck, it may be crazy—but that doesn’t make it less valid. We don’t benefit in any way from constant, close proximity to cheap, crappy stuff. If you doubt me, use substandard toilet paper and body lotion, or wear poor quality underwear, socks, or pantyhose. Heaven help you if you go for all those cheapies on the same day: Welcome to Itch City, population 1.
So, giving credit to Mom’s influence and in the spirit of Ten Tech Tools for the Mobile Entrepreneur by Kyle Claypool from On Your Business, here are five quality business tools that make my day, all day, every day: Read more
My 4 Favorite PDF Producing Programs (plus a few online options)
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Yesterday I posted about the glories of PDF documents and highlighted features you can easily leverage for your business. I also had a tiny rant about reader-friendly features going unused, and listed some folks who create PDFs that work all the best bits.
Today I’m on the coolest of cool things about Adobe’s PDFs, which is you don’t have to buy a pricey Adobe product to make them! There are stacks of free and affordable ways to create PDFs: downloadable desktop applications, online services, and as a feature in programs we already use.
Here are the 4 programs I use to make PDFs, plus some online options: Read more
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