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3 Way to Backup your Facebook

Posted by kzor On July - 20 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS Subscribe here

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.

How to care your video tape

Posted by zonic On July - 1 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS Subscribe here

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.