Download FEBE from Mozilla.org

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This video shows you how to:

• Create additional backups of your iPhone by renaming a folder
• How to give the backups custom names
• How to select which backup you want to restore

Resources

• Apple’s iPhone / iPod Touch All about Backups knowledgebase article
• Modmyi Forum on making multiple iPhone backups

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Video of How to Backup Your Tweets using Backupmytweets.com

I got this question today via a Twitter DM on if it was safe to use this service.  Although I’d seen many people using it and then tweeting out about it, I decided it was best to test drive it.  I had seen @AdamJackson post months ago saying he contacted Twitter directly and they sent him a file with all his tweets but he’s a pretty prolific Tweeter (currently 46,384 tweets)

Safe?

I would say that it’s safe to use backupmytweets.com to do Tweet backups because it uses openauth instead of asking you for your password.

Worth It?

Now as to the value of the backup…that’s another matter as it only backed up 3,200 of my Tweets and the information on the home page is unclear about if you get 1GB of backup space with free accounts as well as when you pay.  They’re basically saying they want to pay you $10 to tweet out about their product.

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Would Miss Your Computer Files in a Fire?

Mozy is an amazing solution for keeping your data safe.  Computer data is usually lost to fire, theft and hardware failures.  Mozy protects your data by securely uploading your files to a safe data center.

I’ve been using it for 2 years and it’s not let me or my clients down once!

• Secure Files are encrypted before they go up
• Easy You don’t need to be techie to backup your data
• Affordable Mozy is just $4.95/month for unlimited storage

It supports both Windows and Macs.  The most I ever backed up was 46GB to my personal Mozy Account

Website – http://mozy.com

Firefox Extension Info

FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension)
by Chuck Baker

Backup Your Profile

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Restore Your Profile

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Now, dealing with grief, physical discomfort, frustration and disbelief is usually a process that most folks experience during a long and drawn out situation, not in the middle of the week!

Loss of a Pet

Justice my rat died (He’s the Orange one).  I had him for 2 years.  I adopted him from the Humane Society of Minneapolis.  I still have his little friend Common but Justice was the cute and cuddly one who would sit in my lap for an hour.  Rats do something similar to cats when they are happy.  It’s called “bruxing”.  They sorta grind their teeth around and their eyes will jiggle.  That means they are really, really happy.  Anyway, Justice used to do that.

Menstrual Wha?

Yeah, cramps!  They suck!  So much that I made a video on YouTube a few weeks back and women are watching it and leaving comments which I think is awesome as this is one of my efforts to be more transparent by sharing non “techie” stuff about myself.  I want to connect with people on things we all deal with, all struggle with.  I am not alway the fixer…sometimes I need fixing.

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500 Error: Your WordPress Blog is Angry at You

Then, like how the carpenter has a leaky roof, my blog (yes the one your are reading) decides that it is angry and must explode.  I tried to coax it along, asking the database to please wait until the weekend, promising I would migrate it to the new server space at Rochenhost but no….It seized up.  Now I do take responsibility here that I did an in place upgrade to WordPress WPMU 2.7.1 but I was following Richard’s instructions and his first set about configuring WPMU were really good! 

I have been with the same hosting company since 2005.  Now, using software is just like dating in many ways…the longer you are “with” the software or hosting provider, the more attached you feel to them.  In spite of problems around:

• Support (emotional)
• Performance (ladies?)
• Cost (financial stability)
• Communication (Is he hearing you?)
• Cost (lower cost for same or better level of performance..see above)
• Competition (Is this really the best deal in town?)

most people will stay with their partner hosting company.  Well, I realized mine was not paying attention to my needs.  I gave them many chances to improve.  I even spent more money with them…hoping they’d notice me.  I left them nice comments in their tesimonials forum…no change.  I even suspected they were cheating on me not giving me actual answers they knew but were just copy/pasting from a knowledgebase.  Finally, I began looking around and found someone a hosting company that fits my needs.

Did my hosting company go south?  Did our needs/offerings change over time to create the rift?  I know I tried to resolve things and am moving on.

I’ve been testing out Rochenhost for 3 months now.  Not only are they the offical host of all of Joomla.org, they also sponsored Joomla Day Las Vegas, get the big “joke” on green hosting, say all many of their folks are Red Hat certified, have been quick and mostly accurate in their initial responses so I’m satisfied and have started moving my sites over there. 

Now you may be saying, “Adria, don’t you hate Joomla though?  Why would you host with a company that is tuned for Joomla? ”.  The answer is that Joomla, WordPress and many Content Management Systems (CMS) have similar requirements for hosting in reference to Apache, PHP, MySQL, hardware and bandwidth.

You Lost The Contest But Not The Game

So I was pretty pumped about entering the MyCoopRocks contest a few weeks back.  I was sure the judges were going to pick my entry because it had:

• Substance; My list of 10 reasons
• Production value; Chuck Olsen‘s amazing editing and production
• Me of course!

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But it seems the judges had other ideas.  I was awaiting Friday May 8th when they would make the announcement on who won but they made it around dinner time Thursday.  Seeing the email, my heart skipped a beat!  Had I won a macbook!  What would the website look like?  What would I tell people on Twitter?

Uhm…yah…No need because I didn’t win!

The good thing I take away from this is that I have masted the skill of networking. 

• I feel comfortable enough in my own skin try something new
• The ability to evaluate my skill set and be realistic about it
• The insight to consider who I know and think about how I can utilize my network
• Tthe courage to ask for help and when receiving it, make the most of it
• The motivation to follow through and thank others for their help

Now, just 4 years ago, I was terrified of speaking in front of people.  Just 1 year ago, I had no experience in front of a camera.  6 months ago I was not doing my daily lifestream at AskAdria.com and 1 month ago I had never met some guy with a camera on site to shoot footage for a contest.

One of my entrepreneurial heroes is R. H. Macy.  He founded the Macy’s Department store but not before he went broke out west selling shovels to miners digging for gold.  He also sold real estate in Wisconsin.  The first shop he opened up in New York City was not a big, spacious retail store…it was more like the with of fruit stand and he sold ladies gloves and hair pins.  From the humble beginning and initial failures, he amassed a fortune and created a memorable landmark/memory/slice of life for many people.

In modern society, it’s seen as shameful to try and fail so most people don’t try at all.  Jeff of CodingHorror.com talks about failing often as a measure of success in programming.  Who cares how many “sites you launched” if they all required the same skill set from you making you no more than a fast paced gerbil on the Internet superhighway’s assembly line?

Fear of failure is so teriffying to people they spend their whole lives taking safe bets.  Many of these same people then grumble when “risk takers” achive amazing things.  Point is, everyone should take risks…intelligent risks where the payoff has been evaluated and it’s something you’re interested in. 

It looks like fear of failure is actually part of perfectionism (so says Wikipedia)

Perfectionism can drive people to accomplishments and provide the motivation to persevere in the face of discouragement and obstacles.  The meticulous attention to detail, necessary for scientific investigation, the commitment which pushes composers to keep working until the music realises the glorious sounds playing in the imagination, and the persistence which keeps great artists at their easels until their creation matches their conception all result from perfectionism”.

In the workplace, perfectionism is often marked by low productivity as individuals lose time and energy on small irrelevant details of larger projects or mundane daily activities. This can lead to depression, alienated colleagues, and a greater risk of accidents.

Five characteristics of perfectionists: procrastination, fear of failure, the all-or-nothing mindset, paralysed perfectionism, and workaholism.

I liked my co-op a lot.  I felt invested enough I could come up with 10 reasons why they were awesome.  After I made my own video, I realized it wasn’t going to win any awards.  I felt I had a strong set of reasons so I set out to find someone who could help me deliver my message in a good format.  Even though I didn’t win, I now have a much better understanding, start to finish, of how to get a video recorded and what the production results can look like! 

So, this last 24 hours might have sucked but I learned a lot.  I’m off to eat my bowl of ice cream now!

Are you trying to backup your computer using DriveImage XML and getting an error about the VSS service?

I created this video for my friend who had the Sony Vaio laptop die on his Florida vacation because he is getting a very common error when he starts running DriveImage XML

What is vssvc.exe anyway?

vssvc.exe is the Volume Shadow Copy service. You often find it lurking in your computer management area if you’re running Windows XP, Windows Vista or a 2003 or later server edition. It’s found in the default system directory (what is that? %windir% I think) so the path looks like this: C:\WINDOWS\System32\vssvc.exe

This service allows backup applications to make copies of files that are in use because Windows will hand off…yes, a copy of the file. Before this service, it was a real drag to backup remote computers running Outlook, for example because no one would ever close down their email client at night.

Firefox Extension
Supports Versions 2 and 3
FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) by Chuck Baker

I’ve been using FEBE since 2006 and it’s easily one of my favorites.

Things I like about this extension:

• Customize what gets backed up
• Schedule backups
• Audio notification backup is complete
• No hassle to restore extensions
• Regular updates from developer