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Yes I know I know . . . . . I never covered the online backup option when talking about backups

Well for those people that want to be able to access their info on the move from multiple computers, or share their pics, files, videos or music, then you could always use an online backup service such as BT Vault. The key down side of the BT service is the fact that they don't offer a configurable auto backup option on their free 1gb service; which can be a pain if you want to sync and automatically backup certain folders/files.

However . . . . . . you could use another service that is even better!

BeInSync do offer an auto backup service with their free 1gb service and you can use this on several machines.

It's also a good option for people who want the auto backup to just keep a bit a critical data secure with the free 1gb service or for a £75 one off fee, you can have 5gb of data for life ( or until the world crashes into the sun or we get sucked into a black hole or wiped out by a passing comet/asteroid .

It's a very good deal and I'm sure there's many small office/home office users on fast broadband connections that could make excellent use of an online auto backup service like BeInSync's.



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Well I had an email from someone yesterday asking about Outlook Express and how to back it up. Rather than me go through the list and detail how to do it, I'm just going to post the " official " link from the Micro$oft site which not only covers how to backup your emails, but also your address book and mail accounts as well.

Outlook Express backup and restore

This really does cover it in pretty simple English, and is very easy to follow.

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Over the last couple of weeks, I've had someone who's laptop was stolen with lots of their work on it and another person who had a hard drive failure and lost everything .

You never realise how important your work and personal data is until it's gone!

I guess the key to happiness, piece of mind and no sleepless nights really is BACKING UP YOUR DATA. Despite saying it often . . . . . people still don't seem to be taking it on board.

Well I thought I'd help out with a few tips and pointers in the right direction.

Try and keep all your important data in one folder as backups will be easier to perform. ( My documents folder is a good place to start! )

Most people's laptops and desktops nowadays have a cd burner ( cd writer ) or DVD burner. Often you will get cd/dvd creating software with your computers and you can very easily create weekly backups of the " My Documents " folder and any other folders you need.

Pen drives and very large external drives are dirt cheap now and you can pick up a 320gb external hard drive for about £50 from PC World or on the web. With such a huge drive, you could organise weekly backups through Windows XP. Click here for backup instructions

If you only have a small amount of critical data, then you could use a pen drive/flash drive to keep copies of your data, as these can be picked up from about £12 for a 1gb drive.

Anyway the moral of this posting is BACKUP, BACKUP and BACKUP some more if your data is important to you and you want to keep it.

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Well . . . . I have been looking for a decent social networking script for a while, and eventually came across Elgg.

I downloaded it after reading some good stuff about it, but alas, the post install setup has not quite gone to plan! I am having a collection of interesting problems, some of which I've solved, some of which may be a bit more awkward! Anyway, I'm hoping to get this up and running within the next month, as a trial for a new pet site project which is happening later this year.

PS.
If anyone knows of a decent open source social networking script, then please let me know

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All the updates and redesign has now been completed for Hearts & Crosses, and the site is live again.

Russell Houghton did the photography, and the images look great. Julie Welburn herself did all the updates and uploaded all the new products using our EZcart software. A great effort Julie, well done ( and you got in all done in a couple of days! ).

I redid the style sheet, added a new flash image cycler on the home page and added the Lightbox script for the product images.

A nice script that is very now and would definitely come under the Web 2.0 banner! Check out the link below for a demo:

Lightbox example : and click any product image.



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