So what’s the alternative…..well let me mention the one i’m currently using, it’s web based so there is nothing to install. What am i using? http://hootsuite.com.

Put it simply is like tweetdeck but web based, ok so there are things that are missing from it such as the facebook integration, but that’s ok.

Have more that one social networking site? yeah i do, twitter, facebook, identi.ca etc etc. The good thing about this application is that it supports http://ping.fm and therefore updates all of them when you create a tweet….great news…

So far i like it, i hope you will to

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I’ve a 7 month old, and unless you’re a parent, you’ll be amazed at the amount of photos or video you start to take, obviously these are priceless so i though i better think about backups.

First one is obvious, external hard drive, check done, backed up all photos and videos to it and moved it away from the computer incase it gets damaged.

DVD’s, yup just in case the hard drive fails here another way of backing up. Ok so i think i’m done, but hmmmm what if the house burns down? ahaa offsite backups…i suppose i could take a copy to the parents or inlaws, but i don’t want to have to do that everytime i get new photos or make another backup…..in comes SPIDEROAK and online backup service. To quote from their site

“SpiderOak provides an easy, secure and consolidated free online backup, sync, sharing, access & storage solution for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian & Fedora) ”

WHAT? cross platform clients, including linux? awesome Works perfectly on my Ubuntu, Fedora, Windows 7, and Vista machines….

For the moment i’ve only gone for the free 2gb, but from what i’ve seen so far, it’s install client, select what to backup and go. The great thing is you can create sync’s, so if you want a photo folder to be the same on all pc’s you subscribe you can. Brill.

Once i’ve had a play i’ll decide if i want to go with the paid plan, which gives me 100GB for $10 a month, which if you’re using sterling is £6.60 a month, FTW!

Any one use this? Comments welcome.

*UPDATE*
I’ve decided to go with the paid service and currently am paying $9.99 for 100GB, which is totally plenty for my needs, so can’t recommend this highly enough, for now at least If you decide you want to try it out your self, then click the banner at the right hand side of the main website or this link – Spideroak

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Then why not stop by #work-at-easter on irc.freenode.net

Please advise me of decent video creation/editing tools for linux so i don’t have to use windows? I’m not really happy with kino, cinelerra etc al, must admin i’ve not tried blender!

thanks
Paul

It’s also been Ada Lovelace Day, named for the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace. It’s interesting to me that while the first programmer was a woman, and all of the ENIAC programmers were women, there are so many more men than women in technology fields nowadays. Ada Lovelace Day is a day to highlight women who rock in the tech world. Since here in FOSS-land, the FLOSSPOLS survey reports that only 2% of developers are women, compared to 28% in the commercial sector, now i’m not going to write about a particular woman, but here is a list of women’s blogs I read quite often [in no particular order]

Mackenzie Morgan
Emma Jane Hogbin
Celeste Lyn Paul
Elizabeth Krumbach
Miia Ranta
Pia Waugh

Being the genius that he is, he’s fixed it, scouring google there was no single tutorial to help but many each with a differnet fix. Cutting to the chase, he’s got it working again and you can see from his guide here.how he did it.