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LastPass – The last password you’ll have to remember
Aug 21st
LastPass is a password manager that makes web browsing easier and more secure. Although I’ve never been enthousiastic about using a password manager, I’m completely convinced now! My main concerns were usability and reliability of the application. One of the main benefits of using a password manager is that you are able to use unique passwords for different websites and you can use much stronger passwords because you don’t have to remember them anymore.
LastPass stores the passwords encrypted on their server so it’s possible to synchronize the information amongst all of your PC’s. Your passwords are also accesible using a webbrowser (SSL) in case you need them on a public PC.
There is a beta version of LastPass Application which enables managing passwords for applications like Skype and so on.
In case you are still using the same password amongst several websites, use weak short passwords, then I advice you to take a look at lastpass.com and invest some time in upgrading your passwords and making your online live more secure !
The application is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome. It also works on mobile devices (when you buy the premium version for $1,- / month) like the iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Symbian and Android.
Backup (and restore) your photos using Flickr!
May 18th
Flickr is a very popular photosharing site. Basically you can use it to store your pictures and share those with your friends and/or family or make them available to the rest of the world. A free account offers you 100 MB of photo uploads a month and you can view the last 200 uploaded photos.
Upgrading to a Pro account offers you unlimited storage of photos and unlimited uploads. Because you can set privacy levels on your photo’s you can also upload photos you don’t want to share but just store (backup). It only costs you $ 24,95 a year!
By upgrading to a Pro account you have an ideal backup system for all your photos. It’s ONLINE and OFFSITE so you have a backup even in case your house burns down (hope it never happens though!).
Flickr offers a standard upload tool making it easy to upload many pictures at once and set privacy levels and categories on them. It’s available on the Flickr website at: http://www.flickr.com/tools/. Creating a backup of your photos is a piece of cake now.
Restoring your photos is a different story. Flickr doesn’t offer the ability to download all your photo’s at once so it will take you a lot of time to restore the photos manually. A solution is created by using: FlickrEdit. (Before it was a utility called FlickrBackup) This utility is free and offers you the ability to download many photo’s at once to your harddrive. The new FlickrEdit utility offers even more possibilities than FlickrBackup did.
My ideal backup stragegy for your photo’s would be:
- Create a backup of your photo’s on Recordable DVD’s
- Upload all your photos to Flickr (Pro Account) (and set your privacy level!)
FingerTips
May 7th
Speed up the way you work with your PC. I use fingertips to quickly enter notes, tasks and calendar items into Outlook but also start other tasks on my PC. It will speedup your daily work. Download it for free at http://www.getfingertips.com/
Delete Gladinet Cloud Desktop settings
Apr 11th
I use Gladinet Cloud Desktop which enables you to access your free skydrive.live.com account from the Windows Explorer. It also offers some other nice features like backup.
For some reason I had to delete all the settings of Gladinet Cloud Desktop. This fixed some issues I had with using the application (like chunking files for Skydrive). To delete all settings and even go back from Pro to Free version (so you can register it again) is done by deleting all files in: C:\Users\<your windows login>\AppData\Local\Gladinet (For Windows 7). Now the application is working like a charm with the 25Gb free online storage of Skydrive.
Speedfiler to help you organize your email
Jan 4th
Are you always busy processing your emails? Look at this small tool which I use for a couple of years now. It still helps me archiving my email quickly. And it works with outlook 2007!
