Gmail Backup is a free program that allows you to backup your Gmail account and store it on your local computer. You can download all email messages stored on your computer or local. EML files. Out Gmail accounts contain a lot of important mail so it is essential to have a backup of our mail. The program can e-mail security for a specific date range or higher only.

The program has a simple and easy to use interface. Just enter your details, password, the folder in which to store the backup and the date range and click a button. For this to work, you must enable IMAP in your Gmail account. The messages are downloaded and the name of the sender’s subject line, and date stamp so that it becomes easier to find locally. execution of the command line is also available if you want to make automated backups. It also allows the restoration of their Gmail accounts.

The program is a big step for a solution to make a backup of your Gmail accounts. This program is free and runs on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

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TrayStatus is a freeware which shows the status of the Num lock, Caps lock  and scroll lock keys in the taskbar notification area. If you use a notebook or you have a keyboard without an indicator light for the caps lock or num lock keys, this program is just for you.

Apart from the status of the keys, the program also shows the current read/write hard disk activity. The current read/write speed is also shown as a tooltip when you move your mouse over the icon. The program displays 4 separate icons in the notification area. You can also enable or disable the icons based on the preferences that you like.

The program is a freeware and works on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

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Hit the delete button or clear the Recycle Bin does not actually delete files from your computer, it just removes the file reference the file system table. They may be easily recovered using any program of recovery. This can sometimes pose serious privacy issues if you’re selling your hard drive or your PC. Here is a list of some free programs that you can use to permanently delete files from your harddrive so you can not be recovered again.

1) Eraser

Eraser is an advanced security tool for Windows that can completely remove sensitive data from your computer, overwriting it several times with selected patterns. You can create a task and have it published in time point. You can even select the file and free the space suppression methods. It has a simple interface.

2) Freeraser

3) File Shredder

File Shredder lets you choose between 5 different fragmentation algorithms for erasing data. It also contains an integrated disk cleaner can clean unused disk space. It has a simple interface where you can add files and folders you want to delete.

4) Disk Redactor

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What if one day your Facebook account accidentally deleted or banned  for some reason or another? What if a new social network that pass, and got shut down Facebook? What if you decide to close your account from Facebook, but you will not lose any data you put there? These scenarios may be unlikely, but they are indeed possible.

Everything you put on Facebook reside there. All status updates, links, photos, notes – everything. Thus, just as it is good practice to back up your hard disk, it is also good practice to have a plan ready to Facebook backup in case something bad goes down. Here are three free tools you can check to ensure that their data is safe.

1. Backup your Facebook to hard disk

Fancy recreate Facebook on your laptop?  ArchiveFacebook is a Firefox addon that lets you save the contents of Facebook directly to your hard drive and after that you can burn it on a dvd-r and view them the same way they currently view them on Facebook. It takes some time to process, however, because it will try to make a backup whenever full – but still very broad and very useful.

2. Backup Facebook photo albums

Whether you’re trying to back up his own albums, or trying to easily grab a friend’s album for offline viewing, FacePAD is a Firefox addon that lets you download entire albums from Facebook with a click of a button. You can also do it for fan pages and pages of events.

3. Backup Facebook to the cloud

Backupify service is an amazing backup multiple services – Facebook is one of them. Using Facebook Connect, Backupify regularly to keep all your photos, friend lists, events, links, notes, and states of the cloud. The free version of Backupify can handle up to 2 GB of storage.

Everything is stored on a server in Amazon S3 and its privacy policy clearly states that the data stored in Backupify is yours, and they has no right to say it, or look, sell, or analyze.

When you are in the act of video recording, you probably do not think what to do with that footage 20 years. The reality is that his films and the film can begin to degrade in just five years, usually due to poor storage techniques video.

The first thing to understand is that video was never meant to be a solution of long-term storage. It was primarily designed to be easy to use and easy to copy.

The good news is that with proper video tape storage that can prolong the life of videotape (for years … not decades). Storing your video tapes is as important as video editing and sharing videos of your finished product.

You want to keep your video tapes free of moisture, excessive heat and dust. Once that is taken care of, there are other environmental issues for consideration also:

* Never store your video tapes of his television. The magnetic fields generated by the    television will damage your video tapes quickly with time.

* Exercise your video tape fast forward to the end of the tape, then rewinding to the beginning of the tape. This will reduce the voltage coil and reduce the tendency to adhesion of the tape.
* Never store your video tapes in his car. Even on a moderately sunny, the temperature can easily exceed 90-100 degrees when the direct sunlight.

* The smell of the container in which your video tapes are stored. If you smell vinegar or other odors, it is likely that their tapes are in an accelerated phase of decomposition.

Sometimes it is easier to find and discover interesting news scrolling through pictures rather than read through lines of text. Images for easier exploration and the really interesting things often draws attention quickly. Here are 4 great visual search engine that can be played.

1. SpaceTime 3D

SpaceTime 3D is a visual search engine that uses Coverflow, Apple’s amazing interface that lets you turn gracefully through snapshots of different websites. It works for Google, Wikipedia, Youtube and search for images.

2. Cooliris

Cooliris started as a simple Firefox extension, but has grown to include the iPhone as well, and can now be integrated directly into other websites. It uses an approach of “endless gallery where users can quickly scroll through a wall of images, news, videos.

3. Middle Spot

Middlespot lets you preview of search results corresponding to a description in the sidebar of the search engine.
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4. Spezify

Spezify returns all media types related to the subject of photos, audio, web pages, mentions twitter, and more. This is probably my favorite of the lot, as only fit together in a coherent way.