The Photographer’s Ephemeris is a great tool available for Desktop (Mac, PC and linux) and also Iphone, Ipod and Ipad. The tool enables you to plan your outdoor photoshoot by showing you the position of Sun and Moon in relation to the landscape. You will see how the light is falling on the land. The tool uses a map based approach and has several advanced features. Read for yourself on photoephemeris.com
A training tutorial can be found on: stephentrainor
A mini tutorial can be found on: seattlebackpackersmagazine.com
Although your website host will create a backup in case of system failure, you might need a backup when you’ve made a mistake yourself like deleting files or messing up the scripts on your site.
I’ve found a little freeware application called websitebackup that will download all the files from a specified FTP location to you harddrive. This way you can create a complete backup of your website on your harddrive (restore can be done by uploading the files back to your website host FTP). Just remember that you should also create a seperate backup of the database in case your site uses a database.
Axel from website2backup.com attended me on their solution which sound nice and incorporates encryption and also backups the database. Take a look at their website to check the solution. Choose whatever solution that fits your needs.
Today I found the website: FlickrRoom where you can find an adobe Air application that provides you a rich browsing experience for Flickr. It looks nice and it might be of interest to you.