Backupify is a new cool service that automatically performs secure, unlimited and scheduled backup of your data from most of the common online services like Flickr, Twitter, FaceBook, Gmail etc. to a server cloud (Amazon S3) for a nominal fee.
However, till the 31st of January, 2010 they’re offering these accounts for free to anyone who cares to signup with them. Following this date, they’ll revert back to the paid pricing plans – but those who have signed-up before this date will continue to enjoy unlimited free services (for good).
The list of currently supported services include:
- Gmail
- Twitter
- Google Docs
- Flickr
- Facebook
- Basecamp
- Wordpress
- Delicious
- Photobucket
- Blogger
- FriendFeed
… with YouTube, Tumblr, RssFeed and XMakrs coming soon.
Backupify creates daily / weekly (your choice) automated backups from all of these services using a “Set it and forget it” mode.
While providing extremely useful services, quite a few of the online services in this list do not employ adequate security measures. As a results they’re coming under direct attack by various hacker groups. Incidents like this invariably end up in huge loss of data – data consisting of pictures, videos, documents, blog posts that are an integral part of your lifestream. Hence, one cannot adequately stress on the importance of maintaining a regular backup of this data. Moreover, most tech-savvy folks subscribe to a multitude of these services and maintaining individual backups of each profile can prove to be a nightmare.
So hurry and grab your free account before we hit Jan 31st. Spread the light as you see fit, as this can prove to be a cool gift to share with your family and friends this New Year.
Besides, as Whitson Gordon states, “It can’t hurt — after all, it doesn’t get much cheaper than free.”
WobZIP is a cool new (and free) solution to bypass any sort of installation restrictions that your sysadmin may have placed on your school computers thereby limiting your ability to unzip certain types of archives. WobZIP lets you upload and uncompress files on-the-fly.
The service is very easy to use and can come in handy not only in the situation mentioned above but wherever you’re in…
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This seems to be the era of online graphics tools. As computing power and coding paradigms (read software capabilities) evolve, online tasks that were earlier deemed next to impossible are being delivered right to your doorsteps – most of them at the single click of your mouse. Just last week, I had reviewed this online tool named beFunky, that helps you cartoonize any given still…
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Here’s the latest addition to the Web 2.0 bandwagon – befunky – a quick & dirty way to cartoonize your favourite snaps in a jiffy.
The site sports a simple flash interface that allows you to upload your snaps (either from your Desktop or by direct capture through a webcam) and convert them to cartoon caricatures. There are a couple of easy-to-understand parameters like Sketch, Colour,…
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For those who have read my earlier posts on Avro Keyboard and Google’s Inidc Transliteration service, here comes a pleasant surprise for you. Tachyon Technologies – an Indian software firm brings to you QuillPad, a really advanced online (and free) English to Indic transliteration tool.
The interface is pretty similar to Google’s Indic Transliteration page. You have this text-box where you key in words of the…
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Does that risk-taker in you makes its presence felt every so often? Does that involve gambling? Lets face it – all of us would squirm inwardly with pleasure at the prospect of making a quick bundle online. And many of us have tried out their luck sometime or the other. To cut our work short for us, there are millions of online casinos sprouting up…
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This isn’t about those shiny Web 2.0 badges spotted abundantly around the web these days. Rather these are real-world badges that gadget freaks and people with that individualistic trait would love to show-off on their apparel. These custom buttons and badges are brought to you by Fat Statement AB – a Swedish company specialising in print media.
The badges come in two different sizes – 25…
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An average internet user comes across plenty of Get Rich Quick schemes floating around on the net. Almost all of these lure members in with promises of delivering an insane amount of riches in just 3-4 days while you just sit at your computer building up your referral list. You’ll notice something strangely similar about their advertising methods – all of them put substantial…
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