Posts Tagged ‘Data’
Recover Data Like a Forensics Expert Using an Ubuntu Live CD [Step By Step]
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Memonic Helps You Clip and Organize Data From Across the Web [Notes]
Friday, January 29th, 2010
Memonic is a free web-based tool that seeks to help you clip out just what you need from your web-based research and organize it in a personally meaningful and helpful way.
Memonic allows you to move away from the model of bookmarking sites that contain data you want and instead of snipping that data out of the page and saving it to your Memonic account. If you're doing research on a vacation for instance, you wouldn't bookmark every page you found with interesting content about that vacation. You would use Memonic to clip out the bits that were of interest to you—a specific restaurant review from a restaurant critic page, a landmark you found on the visitor's bureau site you want to visit, some photos of local street performers you'd like to keep an eye out for, and so on. All the things you clip end up in your Memonic inbox, seen below:
From there you can sort and organize your clips, edit the associated information, and share your clippings and organized portfolios with others. Memonic accounts are free and you can enter information into Memonic using a bookmarklet—see the top screenshot, the green box is the clipping border—or by emailing the information to your Memonic account or manually creating a new entry within Memonic. If you're curious to try out Memonic but hate signing up for new accounts, you can try out all the features of Memonic just by visiting the main page. If you like the service, you can create a free account to save the clippings you made during your trial run.
Have a favorite service for gathering web-based clippings and media together? Let's hear about it in the comments. Thanks Mick!
Export All Your Google Docs to a ZIP File [Backup]
Monday, October 26th, 2009
Google Docs has officially thrown open their data doors, allowing users to back up all their documents to whatever formats they choose and compressed into a ZIP file. It's serious peace of mind for those concerned about the cloud.
The feature seemed to arrive very recently without any official blog post or explanation, but it seems to be working for more than just a select few testers. The only catch to using it is selecting all your files, as the Google Operating System blog explains. I frequently "hide" (or basically archive) documents I'm not using frequently, so I only had to head to the "Hidden" view in the left-hand view selector—those with more complex filing schemes should try the "All Items" view, or a wildcard asterisk search to pin down what they want.
Once you've selected or searched for what you want to export, you'll have to scroll all the way down until all the documents are exposed, then hit the checkmark box to select them all. Finally, right-click somewhere in your selected docs, choose "Export," and tell Google how to export your word, spreadsheet, and PDF files.
While you're securing your Docs data somewhere other than on Google's servers, take a peek at other free tools to back up online accounts—you'll feel a bit less tethered to the whims of various server administrators and account security representatives.
Google Docs Batch Export [Google Operating System via Digital Inspiration]
Use a Separate Partition to Speed Up Windows 7 Upgrades [Windows 7 Tip]
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
PC World was, like us, slightly amazed at how long a Windows 7 upgrade can take on a Vista system crammed with data. They recommend a good overall geek tip as a fix: creating a separate "data" partition.
Gina ran down the benefits and how-to steps of separating your data from Windows on a standalone partition back in May, but with Windows 7 just a little over a month away, it's worth re-considering, especially if you're on a lower-end system and have a whole lot of media stored away. As PC World points out, once your music, movies, and other stuff is stashed away on a separate partition, you can still make it easy to access with Libraries, one of Windows 7's best underhyped features.
Sprite Migrate Makes Changing Smartphones Simple [Downloads]
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Windows Mobile/Symbian/BlackBerry/Android: If you've got an itch to flee your smartphone for another platform entirely, the prospect of manually dragging over your data is daunting. Sprite Migrate, a free transfer application, makes it easy to transfer pretty much everything.
Sprite's beta Migrate application, free until Dec. 1, should be installed on both the phone you have now and, when you get it, the phone you're moving to. From the phone being left behind, load up Migrate and tell it to grab bookmarks, call logs, contacts, SMS databases, photos, and anything else it can find. It dumps all that into a single file you can transfer by microSD or email, and you simply load up Migrate on a new phone and load that file in.
We lacked a second smartphone to grab and transfer Migrate data with, but Download Squad and online reviewers report that Migrate does exactly what it says. It's a free download for Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Symbian, and Android phones.
Sprite Migrate [Sprite Software via Download Squad]