This is full of niftiness for backing up your Gmail account, if you have one. Just tried it (on a Win XP sp2 box) and it works bee-yoo-tifully.
http://www.gmail-backup.com/
Notice: this is NOT a high-security solution for database backup! Use at your own risk.
Verbose instructions, including a step-by-step example, are included in the zip file.
Download: techdonkeycom-database-backup.zip
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This package will enable you to set yourself up a browser-visitable simple one-button backup of your MySQL database.
It was cobbled together by Elaine Miller from a few different [...]
Hullo, O Clients…
Within your CPanel is a nifty thing called Fantastico. Great name and all, but it should really be called something descriptive, like The Thingy That Installs Nifty Web Software For You (As Long As You Have An Available MySQL Database) And By The Way, It Also Monitors Whether The Installed Software Is Up [...]
A lot of nifty information over on the Wordpress site:
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups#Backup_Resources
This post is a work-in-progress. Have a favourite that isn’t listed here? Shoot me an email below and tell me about it.
Online (no download, platform independent) Applications
GifWorks.
For GIFs, animated or no.
http://www.gifworks.com/image_editor.html
On Your Windows Computer
Image Resizer
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
My friend asked me to explain, to explain in 5 minutes or less, the difference between some of the different image file formats! I’ll give it a shot, bare-naked, like.
There’s a crapload of different formats for pictures, and they all save the picture differently. There’s two main kinds, raster and vector.
VECTOR IMAGES
A simple vector image [...]
Factoid: The lovely, enormous images we take with our digital cameras are too big for displaying on the web. Here’s a few reasons why:
(1) Because we can’t see better than 72 or 90 dpi on our screens anyhow.
(2) Even with North America’s huge number of users on highspeed internet, who wants to wait an interminable [...]
While we try to keep backups of all files on the server, you are ultimately responsible for the back-ups of your files. Back-up modules are accessible through your CPanel, so if you’re running live or interactive content you’ll be able to do up-to-the-minute back-ups.
Here’s how:
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All of your domain options are accessible through your [...]
Scenario: You have a document online, but the online source has vanished, whether by server crash or perhaps having a hacked website. If you’ve recently visited your site on your machine with your browser, you may have a copy of your images and pages still inside your computer, in an often-hidden folder called your browser [...]
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Place your desired domain name in the search box and click “Take Me Back!”
The dates that show up are linked to a cache of that domain at that particular time and space. (It’s always humbling to look back upon one’s early coding skills, for instance)
This’ll be very text-only unless the same images are still on [...]