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Back up Facebook, simply, for free

Lots of you guys use Facebook. Facebook is notoriously hard to back up. Although I’m not aware of any large server outages, if you post a lot of pictures to Facebook its good to have the important ones saved in a secure place. There are a number of programs you can download that scan through the Facebook directories and download each and every file individually, they’re hard to use. There’s a simple solution.

Backupify will download and save your facebook profile and files on their server, for free. It requires you to sign up for an account with them, but its a very simple solution to a very tricky problem.

(Yeah, click the link above. It should be red.)

Follow the directions for the setup, and you’ll soon be on your way. If you have any problems, contact them!

Clouds Are Not to Be Trusted

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Did you know that your precious pictures, videos and email live in a cloud and could disappear at any time?  This week Google accidentally lost data for 40,000 to 150,000 users (reports vary) and is trying to restore the data.  Flickr is well known for deleting photos and Facebook might remove your art photos because some old cat lady is a prude who is just thinking of the poor children.  Usually photos are on your computer since you had to retrieve them from your camera, but email often exists only on your provider’s servers.  Cnet has put together a video showing how to backup your data from Gmail and some other tips for backing up your other data.