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03 October, 2011

How to automatically backup USB drives

USB flash drives are not indestructible - they may be sturdier than hard drives, but they're still susceptible to physical damage and breakage from falls, electrostatic discharge and data corruption if a device is removed while data is still being copied.

It's good practice to keep multiple backups of your important data, so try USB Flash Copy - a free utility for Windows PCs that automatically takes backups of your flash drive every time you connect it.

No installation is needed and it's only a 300kb download - get it from www.usbflashcopy.com and run it to set a particular folder on your computer's hard drive for backups (by default, it makes a backup folder in 'My Documents' ).

The first time you connect a USB drive, it will take a complete backup of all contents. Thereafter, it only makes small changes to the backup folder - copying only the files that have been changed or added. If you like, you can alter the settings to keep older versions of files too.

And if multiple people use the same PC or if you have multiple flash drives, you can create profiles for each device (with different settings).

How to send self-destructing messages

Normally, any form of written communication has a record - something that can be referred to later. But if you want to send a self-destructing message to someone, try the free service at www.privnote.com.

You don't need to sign up or provide any information - just start writing your note in the text box on the page. The note can be as long as you want and you can even paste a large Word document here if you like. Once done, click 'create note' and a link will be created for you. The link is meant to be shared only once, with one person only.

Once the note is read, the link (and the note) is removed from the server. You can even set it to notify you once the note gets read - though you do have to put in an email ID for that. If you're wary of giving your email ID, you can always use a disposable email service like www.mailinator.com.

Mailinator gives you a quick email ID without any sign up process - you can check for new mail as often as you like and just forget about the whole thing once your purpose is served. You can also use Mailinator to sign up for forums and to comment on websites. It's a great way to avoid getting spammed later.

30 August, 2011

How to Add Symbols to Facebook Posts : i2Symbol

Facebook restricted user in many way like Facebook may not want symbols in username but that doesn't means these characters can't be part of wall posts, messages and emails. If you are one of them who really want it than we have a option for you.

Sciweavers launched the online application with hundreds of symbols, organized in more than 50 categories, with many meant to express emotions such as happiness, sadness and surprise and lot more.

To use the symbols into Facebook wall post , message or email, users can simply left-click on their mice, click copy and paste the symbols into whatever they are working on.

Symbols can be acquired directly via the web application and i2Symbol is also available as an extension for Google Chrome and an add-on for Firefox.

hCategories of symbols include : most popular, faces, love, emotions, styled characters, flowers, stars, music geometric shapes, write, weather, office tools, box drawing, zodiac, signs, chess, styled numbers, currency, math, technical, block elements, fractions, arrows, superscripts, punctuation, brackets, religion, subscripts, check marks, cards, hands, and Roman.

Readers, is plain old text still good enough for you on Facebook, or will you try out i2Symbol?

If you like this post then share it on Facebook or leave comments below!!!!!!

14 June, 2011

How To Back Up Bookmarks In Firefox

You probably sometimes lost important data on your computer and then when they are lost, you say Damn…. I wish back up my data. It¨s always good to have a back up of data especially the bookmarks in Firefox. .Backing up your bookmarks is very simple. Here is a quick tutorial to help you out.

1) Launch Mozilla Firefox

2)Go to Bookmarks tab and click on Organize Bookmarks…

3) When Libary appear click on Backup under Import and Backup tab.

4) Save you backup. The file will contain all your bookmarks and will be an . JSON file.

5)When you need to restore your backup navigate to Import and Backup-> Restore -> Choose File… Choose your backup file saved as .json and your bookmarks will be restored.

Google Labs - Useful Features To Improve Your Gmail

Google Labs, we all know about google labs. If you don't know google labs then here is some discription about it:

"Google Labs is a website demonstrating and testing new Google projects.Google also uses an invitation-only phase to test projects including Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Wave and many of these have their own "labs" webpages for experimental projects unique to each product."

-Defination from Wikipedia

Now we are going to see the features of google labs to improve gmail. Gmail has changed our lives permanently it offer 5 GB of email storage for free and a lot of google labs features. This is one of the reasons why I love Google.

Here is a list of useful google labs features which will for sure , improve your gmail.

1) Watch Youtube Videos In Gmail Chat

With this feature you can watch previews of YouTube videos whenever you receive a YouTube link in an email.

It looks like this:

To enable it go to gmail labs , search for YouTube previews in mail and select Enable and click on Save Changes at the bottom.

2) Use Gmail Offline With Google Gears

It is a web browser plug-in , that allows you to work in Web applications without internet connection. When you lose your connection, Gmail automatically switches to offline mode, and uses the data stored on your computer’s hard drive instead of the information sent across the network. You can read messages, star and label them, and do all of the things you’re used to doing while reading your webmail online. Here you can find tutorial guide step by step "How to install Google Gear"

1. Go to this link and install Google Gears ,

2. After installation , restart your web browser

3. Go to Gmail Account , click on Settings , then Labs and enable offline

4.Download your email messages onto computer. In gmail account click Offline

5.After this will appear window, click Next

When Gears security warning appear click Allow

Choose place where you want to create Gmail shortcut, that allows you to start Gmail while you are offline

Wait until your mail downloaded on your computer.

Now, you can use your gmail offline. When you disconnect, offline mode will activate and you´ll have access to gmail.

3) Undo Your Sent Message

Turn on Undo Send in Gmail Labs under Settings, and you’ll see a new “Undo” link on every sent mail confirmation. Click “Undo,” and we’ll grab the message before it’s sent and take you right back to compose.