JournalSpace Drama: All Data Lost Without Backup, Company Deadpooled
by Robin Wauters on January 3, 2009
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Blogging platform JournalSpace (which I’d never heard of to date) has ceased to be, following a wipe-out of the main database for which there was no back-up in place. According to the JournalSpace blog, the database was overwritten as a result of a malicious act from a disgruntled ex-employee.
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Stunning. Why isn’t the fellow in jail?
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http://www.mymobilewitness.com/
My Mobile Witness, a groundbreaking new cell phone service that turns your cell phone into a personal security device. My Mobile Witness stores photos or text and warehouses the information for use only by law enforcement authorities. The breakthrough technology is fast and simple to use: an individual takes a photo or creates a text message and sends it to their individual account where it is stored in the My Mobile Witness digital vault. The photo is time-stamped and stored on a site accessible only to law enforcement officials who have limited “active case” or subpoena access to the information when the images may be relevant. Think about getting that license plate of the hit-and-run you just saw.
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I think about the youngsters meeting in a bar. Their wingman can take serendipity pics to establish exactly who they were leaving with.
May sound crude. Maybe I’ve seen too many “Law And Orders” episodes. But makes sense to me.
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http://lifehacker.com/5131781/where-to-go-when-google-notebook-goes-down
Where to Go When Google Notebook Goes Down
By Kevin Purdy, 8:10 AM on Thu Jan 15 2009, 9,709 views
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Google’s Notebook webapp was tightly integrated with other Google apps, had a killer Firefox extension, and was great at getting things done. “Was,” though, because Google is ending support. Here’s where heartsick users should turn.
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OK, here’s why you can’t trust “free” software, “beta” software, or “the cloud”.
Next time you’re going to bet your data on one of these, think “what will I do when?”.
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You have successfully Krunchd a URL and here it is for your convenience and sharing:
Title of Krunch: The collective sites of FJohn Reinke
URL: http://krunchd.com/reinkefj
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Take one or more RSS feeds, add them, select a schedule! You get emailed a PDF.
Interesting alpha. Needs a way to limit the amount of RSS feed it takes. Like a daily take, should limit it to a day.
Maybe?
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How many Friend Lists can I have?
You can have up to 100 Friend Lists.
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Argh!
Where’s the Facebook competitor? Like LinkedIn, hard coded limits … … just shaking my head!
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http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub/app/cramberry/
Courtesy of Emily Chang:
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Jan 04, 09
Cramberry
A web app that helps people (students, actors, or anyone else) memorize things (schoolwork, lines in a play, etc.) using flashcards. Users create a blank “set” of flashcards, then name the set, and start adding cards to the set. Once you’re ready, the app presents these cards to you in a random order so you can answer the cards.
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Tried it. One link wrong on their main page. But it does work.
Needs maturation.
(1) No export. (2) No way to monetize your sets of flash cards.
Interesting concept.
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http://help.live.com/help.aspx?project=live_folders
Welcome to Windows Live SkyDrive Help
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Store, organize, and download your files, photos, and favorites (A website whose web address is saved on your computer or an online server so that you can access it quickly and easily.) on Windows Live servers for free. Share photos and files that you create with your friends, collaborate on documents, or display photos and files that you create to anyone on the Windows Live network (A group of people someone communicates and shares with on Windows Live. Someone’s network includes people they’ve added to their profile, to their Messenger contacts, or both. People in someone’s network can see information about their latest activities in the what’s new list, and may see other information, depending on permissions settings.) . When you sign in to the Windows Live SkyDrive website with your Windows Live ID (The e-mail address and password that you use to sign in to Windows Live programs and services such as Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger; Microsoft services such as Xbox LIVE, MSN, and Office Live; and other places where you see the Windows Live ID logo.) , you get:
* Storage: Store up to 25 gigabytes (GB) of photos and files. The SkyDrive storage meter shows how much storage space you’ve used.
* Organization: Arrange your files in top-level folders (A folder that appears in the Documents, Favorites, or Photos sections on the Windows Live SkyDrive home page. Also known as a root folder.) and subfolders (A folder that you create inside a top-level folder.) that you create.
* Control: Choose permissions (A setting that lets you limit who can see and download files from your folders.) for each top-level folder that you create. Keep your photos, files, and favorites in personal folders (Only you can view or edit files in this top-level folder. You can use personal folders to store private files.) so only you can access them; in shared folders (Only you and people that you select can view photos and files in this top-level folder. For each person that you allow to access the top-level folder, you can assign the role of reader or editor.) so you can share them with your Windows Live network, your extended network (The people in your network on Windows Live—your Windows Live Messenger and profile contacts—plus the profile contacts of the people in your network.) , and people on your contact list (A list that contains the name and e-mail address of each of your contacts.) ; or in public folders (Anyone on the Internet can view photos and files in this top-level folder, but only you can edit the photos and files.) so that they can be viewed by anyone on the Internet.
* Convenience: Keep track of your favorite websites even when you aren’t using your own computer.
* Flexibility: Upload any photo or file up to 50 megabytes (MB) in size, and move, copy, delete, rename, and caption your photos and files after you upload them.
* Display: Photos saved as the JPG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG, TIF, and TIFF file types (A standard way of storing information on a computer by using the last three letters of a file name, known as the file extension, to indicate the file type. Different programs use different file extensions.) display with thumbnail (A miniature version of an image or electronic version of a page that is generally used to allow quick browsing through multiple images or pages.) images, and can be viewed by other users on SkyDrive or in an online slide show, if they have the right permissions to view them.
* Sharing: Share links directly to your folders, files, and photos, or embed your photos and files in your blog (Short for weblog. An online journal. Each entry typically contains personal thoughts and web links, with the newest entries listed first.) or webpage. You can also let people know you’ve added their picture to SkyDrive by adding people tags (Textual data attached to a photo to refine its definition and meaning by identifying the person or persons in the photo.) .
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Sigh. Didn’t migrate the FOLDERSHARE settings. Argh!
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Message from the Plaxo Pulse Team 1 day ago
Get more out of your Plaxo — Expand your network
There are only a few days left in 2008. At this time of year, people everywhere are re-connecting with friends, family and the professional contacts that mean most to them. Now, more than ever, it’s a great time to invest in your network. Making the right connections helps you stay in touch and can open new opportunities…
Plaxo offers many tools to help you find and connect with your friends and colleagues. Visit our connections page to see people you may know; find classmates and co-workers; or import new contacts to connect with.
Once you’ve connected with the people you care about, why not update your profile to let them know what’s new? Filling in with your professional history is a great place to start.
Investing in your network is not only enjoyable, but can pay great dividends in the new year.
Warmest wishes this holiday season!
The Plaxo Team
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Maybe if they fixed their 10k limit, I might invest time on Plaxo. Not a minute before. Argh!
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“manhattan college” -marymount -“marymount manhattan college” -“borough of manhattan college” -marymount -manhattan.edu -bmcc.cuny.edu -msmnyc.edu -mancol.edu -gojaspers.com
I’m a sucker for search engines to “find” my fellow Jaspers. Here’s one that I didn’t see the value of. Doesn’t mean it’s not there. Just I do not see it. Do you?
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Amusing. THe WSJ just covered “de-friending” at the awkwardness.
How do I know that “de-friending” isn’t just the social networking site making a mistake.
And, the WSJ article and other bloggers have pointed out that you may need that person you “de-friended” in the future.
Better just to ignore it.
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Begin forwarded message:
From: “Tributes.com” <info@tributes-mail.com>
Date: December 18, 2008 5:20:49 PM EST
Subject: Tributes.com – Member Update
Dear Tributes Member,
The end of September marked the formal launch of Tributes.com as our site exited its testing phase and went into full production to serve families and funeral homes across the U.S. by providing the national resource on the Internet for obituary news and lasting personal tributes.
As we work to consolidate obituary news from across the country onto a single national platform, more and more people are looking to Tributes.com as a reliable place to locate service and condolence information so that they never miss the opportunity to grieve with family and friends. Obituary Alerts also ensure that you receive notification by email of any obituaries that are posted to our site for people from a particular city or town, family, school, or military unit.
Lasting Tributes to Remember Loved Ones
For those of you that have recently lost a special person or would like to remember someone that passed away months, or even years ago, we now offer a robust suite of interactive tools to help create lasting online tributes that appropriately tell the rich stories of our loved ones’ lives. You can now choose from multiple tribute offerings to create a lasting tribute, capturing and preserving special memories for generations to come. Tributes include:
Unlimited copy
Photo slideshows
Interactive memory books
Music & Video support
Custom templates
Create a tribute for your loved ones who have passed away
We take great pride at Tributes in being an important resource for our users and always are interested in your comments and feedback.
Best Regards,
Elaine Haney
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Search for “manhattan college” still doesn’t work! Argh!!
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President, Tributes.com
Tributes.com • 1 First Avenue, First Floor • Charlestown, MA • 02129
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Hello,
Values of n [http://valuesofn.com], the company behind Stikkit [http://stikkit.com], is closing its doors.
Stikkit will going offline at close of business (5pm Pacific Time) on Friday, December 19th, 2008.
Until then, the Stikkit service will be working as usual to allow you time to make the transition, find alternative services, and download any data you wish to take with you.
Here’s the full announcement: http://bit.ly/KoIT
It goes without saying that you _can_ take it with you: export your Stikkit content and import it into an alternate calendar, to-do list, contact management application — or just open it in your favorite text editor (Notepad, Word, et al) or web browser.
Export your stuff: http://stikkit.com/export
** Please be sure to export anything you’d like to keep _before_ Friday, December 19th. After that, the Stikkit web site will be offline and all user data will be permanently deleted. **
Thank you to everyone who has made Values of n and Stikkit possible. It has been an honor to work with you all.
Rael
Rael Dornfest
CEO, Values of n, Inc.
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Hello,
Values of n [http://valuesofn.com], the company behind Stikkit [http://stikkit.com], is closing its doors.
Stikkit will going offline at close of business (5pm Pacific Time) on Friday, December 19th, 2008.
Until then, the Stikkit service will be working as usual to allow you time to make the transition, find alternative services, and download any data you wish to take with you.
Here’s the full announcement: http://bit.ly/KoIT
It goes without saying that you _can_ take it with you: export your Stikkit content and import it into an alternate calendar, to-do list, contact management application — or just open it in your favorite text editor (Notepad, Word, et al) or web browser.
Export your stuff: http://stikkit.com/export
** Please be sure to export anything you’d like to keep _before_ Friday, December 19th. After that, the Stikkit web site will be offline and all user data will be permanently deleted. **
Thank you to everyone who has made Values of n and Stikkit possible. It has been an honor to work with you all.
Rael
Rael Dornfest
CEO, Values of n, Inc.
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From: Windows Live FolderShare <communications_iw_cs_enus@communications3.msn.com>
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Dear FolderShare user, We’re contacting you to let you know what’s next for FolderShare, and to make you aware of some important changes. In December, we plan to announce a product called Windows Live Sync. You can think of it as FolderShare 2.0. It’s going to look familiar and offer the same great features, plus:
A huge part of Sync’s success story depends on FolderShare users like you. When Sync releases, FolderShare goes into retirement. That means your FolderShare software will stop working and will ask you to upgrade to Sync. Once you do, Sync will automatically rebuild your personal folders. We expect a lot of new users when Sync is released, so if you can’t sign in right away, please give it a little time. Here’s the part you need to pay attention to: Sync will not be able to rebuild your shared libraries. If you have a lot of shared libraries, you should hop over to the FolderShare website while it’s still available and copy all that information. You’ll need it to rebuild your shared libraries in Sync. Thanks for being a FolderShare user! We’re excited about delivering an even better file-synchronization experience to customers like you. We hope you’ll come along as we move forward with Windows Live Sync. Sincerely, The Windows Live Sync (formerly FolderShare) team # – # – # Yup, it worked relatively problem free. SO we have to screw around with it! Can’t have that. AND, we can’t have a seamless transition, you have to redo all you’ve done with it. And, they wonder why people HATE Microsoft? I’ve started the painful process of emigrating. Digging that parasite out from under my saddle. My MCBA was a my first step away on my way to Linux. Others would be well advised to do the same. You have no control of what “they”, (Microsoft, Google, or the “cloud computing providers”), do to you! That’s just unacceptable. # # # # # |
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Simple private sharing.
Drop.io is the simplest way to share files online.
Simply set up a private space to drop any files by phone, email, web, widget or fax and then share them with whoever you want via a variety of outputs.
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[JR: Recommended]
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Funny how you can find people by “Find Friends”, but you can’t add them to a list or suggest them to others. I suspect that the various databases in use by facebook are not updated very frequently.
Hmm, maybe an “employment opportunity” for a FOWG from the days when “directories” were differentiated from “databases”.
You also can’t get a list of your “friends”. Is that to conceal lost data?
Fascinating!
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http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Why_You_Should_Turn_Gmail_s_SSL_Feature_On_Now
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Why You Should Turn Gmail’s SSL Feature On Now
By Scott Loganbill August 19, 2008 Categories: Software & Tools, Web Basics
Let’s talk security and why you should take advantage of Gmail’s recent SSL feature, and why you might want to be careful using other non-SSL webmail services.
But first, make sure your connection is secured using SSL.
How do you know a connection is secured by SSL? The handy “s” after “http” will tell you. For example, https://mail.google.com is encrypted while http://mail.google.com is not. You can force an encryption by adding the “s” yourself, or by turning on “Always use https” from the Browser Connection settings of your Gmail account.
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akapost is a simple and easy way to protect your email identity from being exposed on the Internet.
With akapost, you can send and receive emails from any of your existing email accounts but still keep your actual email addresses private.
akapost works with any email client or device such as computer, cell phone, or handheld, etc. No software download or installation is required. Simply sign up and register your email address, it’s ready to go.
Protecting email identity has never been so easy – and yet it’s FREE!
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Hey, for free, how can you miss?
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YOU CAN HELP
Do you know someone who needs support due to cancer treatment, premature birth or chronic illness?
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Here’s a free website that allows the journaling of life events for sick folks (My experience has been two children; emotionally draining!)
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2008/07/yahoo_plays_def.html
The Gripe Line | Ed Foster » Yahoo plays defunct DRM tune
July 24, 2008 | Comments: (0)
Yahoo plays defunct DRM tune
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It’s getting to be an old song. This week the Yahoo Music Store sent a message to customers saying they will turn off their DRM servers after September, thus joining MSN Music, Sony’s Connect music store and other online music services in eventually cutting off customers who purchased DRM-wrapped tunes. And readers have no doubt it’s a song the movie, e-book, and software publishers are also going to be singing in the future.
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So, do they give us a refund for DESTROYING a perfectly good working piece of software that they replaced with a POS?
Yeah, like that’s going to happen!
FTC? DOJ? Political help? Yeah, like that’s going to happen!
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Many issues. My McBa blog is gone. I have it local. I don’t have the new DOTME cabalities and icons on the McBa.
It’s probably getting pounded pretty good. Hence there’s a lot of sitting a looking at the Mac equivalent of an hourglass.
Argh!!
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FROM THE NEW APPLE MOBILEME
Add Personal Domain
Before your iWeb site can be viewed at your personal domain, you must complete the following steps:
* Go to your registrar’s website. Define web.me.com as the “www” CNAME (alias) for your domain.
If you need help creating a CNAME, contact your registrar
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FROM 1AND1
Can I use a CNAME record to point to my web space?
Unfortunately, you cannot use a CNAME record to point to 1&1 web space. You
must provide our DNS servers to your domain name registrar.
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Added a tool to make it easier for you to promote the content.
Which gives you lots of choices:
It would be nice to get good publicity and a grazillion visitors!
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I’m a WORDPRESS fan. I finally found something it doesn’t do that it should
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Subject: [WordPress #ZRP-768006]: [unknown] [reinkefj.wordpress.com] Maybe I’m obtuse How do I put a table in a post?
Howdy!
There is currently no icon to insert a table. You must do this through the HTML view and actually type the tags. Please check out the following resource:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp
Best,
Anthony
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MEDIAWIKI has is it and I was looking to do a table in RFL when I couldn’t find the icon I needed.
I just pasted a table from WORD and it worked. So …
This doesn’t change my opinion that the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom is unsurpassed.
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