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Zoolz: Automatically Back Up Your Files Online [Free 4GB Storage]

TehseenBaweja — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:01:45 +0000

Zoolz is a simple tool that backs up your data on the cloud automatically. While setting up your free Zoolz account, you specify what kind of content you want Zoolz to grab from your desktop. Then after Zoolz is installed on your desktop, it automatically grabs specified files and upload them to your free 4GB storage on Zoolz.com

The best part is availability of apps for Android, iPhone, iPad and even Windows Mobile 7 so you can access your files from anywhere anytime. There is no individual file size restriction and your files are encrypted to ensure privacy. You can quickly download or share any file stored in your Zoolz account and navigate them by year and/or month of when they were created.

Features:

Automatically backsup your files on free cloud storage.
Access your files from any web-enabled mobile device.
Organize, download or share your files instantly.
Similar tools: CloudCM, Amazon Cloud Drive and mSpot.
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Visit Zoolz @ www.zoolz.com

SocialSafe: Back Up & Download Facebook Content

TehseenBaweja — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:01:08 +0000

For an average Internet user, a good chunk of their digital life exists on Facebook. What would happen if one day your account were hacked and wiped off? SocialSafe gives you a perfect way to avoid that by backing up and downloading all your Facebook content as a digital journal that you can browse anytime.

The content you can download includes photos, status updates and list of friends. You can download all this to your hard drive and browse it offline by date, week or year. In addition to browsing, you can also search for any specific content like photo or friend or post. This all comes with the free version, but for a small fee, you can also back up content from other social networks like Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+.

Features:

Backup all Facebook content to your hard drive.
Browse downloaded content by day, week or month.
Similar tools: PhotoLive, Facebook2Zip and MyCube Vault.
Also read related article: How To Backup & Archive All Your Facebook Data.

Visit SocialSafe @ www.socialsafe.net

GroupDocs: Back Up Documents Online & Easily Share

Umar — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:01:49 +0000

If you have important documents on your computer that you want to access from a remote location later on, it is a good idea to create a backup of them online for better accessibility. Offering this service and the service of sharing your digital document files online is a website called GroupDocs.

GroupDocs is a site that lets you sign up for a free account. Free account users can upload documents until up till 1GB of storage is reached or 50 documents have been uploaded. Supported file formats include nearly all of the commonly used digital document formats.

In case you want to share your uploaded documents with peers in another format, you can use the built-in “Convert” option in the app.

Documents can be shared through the “Share” option and then typing in the email address of the recipients. You can also copy the links of the documents and share them directly.

In case you do not have document reading software installed, you can simply click on a document and it will be loaded for reading in the app’s own interface.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Lets you back up and share documents online.
Supports a wide range of file formats.
Converts documents.
Loads up documents online for reading.
Similar tools: SurDoc, Humyo and TagMyDoc.

Check out GroupDocs @ www.groupdocs.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

SurDoc: Ensure The Safety Of Your Digital Documents By Backing Them Up Online

Umar — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:01:19 +0000

Digital documents saved on your computer can be mistakenly deleted by anybody else using your computer. To save yourself from a situation where you lose your digital documents, you can create a backup for them online. An app that lets you do this is SurDoc.

SurDoc is a web service that offers people a free backup option for their digital documents. You start by creating an account on the site and then downloading its desktop client for Windows. Through the desktop client you can figure out the document syncing options and set up automatic synchronization. Your documents are uploaded to your account and can be read anywhere you have access to your SurDoc account in the site’s own reading interface. The ability to create folders and sort documents into them helps you keep things organized.

The service offers 10GB of free storage to its users and accepts all document file formats.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Lets you back up digital documents online.
Offers a desktop clients for Windows.
Offers an online reading interface.
Similar tools: Humyo, TagMyDoc.

Check out SurDoc @ www.surdoc.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

SOSOnlineBackup: Get 5GB of Online Storage To Backup Facebook Data & Other Files

MOin — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:01:02 +0000

Creating a backup of your Facebook account can help you immensely, particularly when you are thinking about deactivating your Facebook account. Although Facebook offers a built-in backup option, you can also use a 3^rd party service “SOS Online Backup” for the task.

SOS Online Backup is a web service that backs up your social data for you. The site offers premium packages for high storage capacities; but you can opt for the site’s Facebook data backup app or smartphone app for 5GB of free backup storage. You can visit the site’s Facebook backup section and authorize the app access to your Facebook account. Next you will be provided with the option to initiate the backup by selecting precisely which items to backup – your wall items, friends, photos, videos, and messages. You will be asked for another authorization for backup after when your Facebook data will begin storing on SOS.

Features:

A user friendly web service.
Lets you backup your data.
Offers free packages for Facebook data backup and smartphone usage.
Lets you select precisely which items to backup.
Similar tools: FolderUploader, Facebook2Zip and MyCube Vault.
Also read related articles: How To Backup & Archive All Your Facebook Data.

Check out SOS Online Backup @ www.sosonlinebackup.com (by MOin from Urban Savior)

Pictarine: Access All Your Online Photos In One Place

abhijeet — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:01:31 +0000

I remember reading somewhere that Facebook adds a few billion photos every month (yes, each month!) – and that’s just one such service. There’s also Flickr, Picasa, Twitter, then apps like Instagram. If you intend to have all of these photos in one place then you should check out an online tool called Pictarine. You can add photos from Picasa, Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Twitter, Yahoo and Gmail, and it can also pull in your friends’ photos. You can also add photos from the computer too, and organize them into different albums.

Pictarine has many other features such as the ability to upload pictures and create albums on various social sites without having to leave Pictarine’s interface.

Features

Aggregate photos from various sites at one place.
Upload photos to those service too.
Selectively share photos by creating photo zests.
Supports Picasa, Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Twitter, Yahoo and Gmail.

Check out Pictarine @ www.pictarine.com (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

SnatchCode: Easily Back Up The Data On Your Websites

MOin — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:01:24 +0000

If you mistakenly deleted important data from your website, the only way to recover it is through an external backup. Thus creating regular backups of your website is a wise decision. Here to help you do that is a web service called SnatchCode.

SnatchCode is a web service that backs up the data on your website through FTP and MySQL. After you create an account on SnatchCode you can provide your website’s URL, hostname, username, password, and port. If your website is sized under 1GB, then you can use the site’s free account. The free package supports an unlimited number of backups.

For sites with larger sizes, SnatchCode offers premium accounts for backing up site data. The site’s simple interface will help many webmasters keep their site data safe through backups.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Backs up data from your websites.
Offers free and premium accounts.
Backs up through FTP and MySQL.
Similar tool: DropMySite.
Also read related articles: Automate Your WordPress Site Backup With SSH & CRON and How To Backup Your Website Through SSH Command Line.

Check out SnatchCode @ www.snatchcode.com (by MOin from Urban Savior)

SMS To Text: Backup Your Messages As A Text File [Android]

abhijeet — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:01:55 +0000

SMS’s on your mobile phone would probably come second in the list of the most important data stored on your phone, after contacts. So backing them up is essential. Android users can use this free app called SMS to Text to get it done. As the name indicates, it backs up your messages as a text file. You can filter by contact, filter by messages received or sent, sort by date or number and finally export it as a .txt file to your computer or to your phone’s SD card.

The app can also help you quickly import SMS’s from a text file which is pretty cool. If you intend to back up email the same way or if you want to access more features then there’s a pro version available too. Overall, a must-have app for Android users.

Features

Backup SMS as a text file.
Export to SD card directly.

Check out SMS to Text @ market.android.com/details?id=com.smeiti.smstotext&hl=en (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

PhotoLive: Download Entire Photo Albums Off Facebook & Similar Sites

Umar — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:01:55 +0000

Viewing photographs from Facebook’s native interface is not always a convenient option. Loading times and connection speeds can make the photo-viewing experience time-consuming. Here to help solve this problem by letting you download all images to your hard drive is a tool called PhotoLive.

PhotoLive is a browser tool that helps you download photo albums off Facebook and similar websites. The site provides you with a bookmarklet without asking you to register for any account. Once you are on an album page on Facebook, simply click on the bookmarklet. If you are on Facebook you will be asked whether you want to download photos regularly or in high resolution. Next your photographs are divided into various sections made available as ZIP files to download. When one archive completes downloading you can proceed to downloading the next one.

An alternative to using the bookmarklet is individually feeding the photo URLs to PhotoLive and letting it download them, provided the URL you gave lets the site view those images.

In addition to supporting Facebook, PhotoLive claims to support album downloads from fbcdn.net and other similar networks.

Features:

A user-friendly web tool.
Lets you download photo albums from Facebook.
Lets you download images regularly or in high resolution.
Supports numerous other sites as well.
Similar tools: Facebook2Zip and MyCube Vault.
Also read related article: How To Backup & Archive All Your Facebook Data.

Check out PhotoLive @ www.getphotolive.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Facebook2Zip: A Simple Yet Effective Way To Back Up Your Facebook Photos

Hammad — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 01:01:59 +0000

Backing up data from different online services is really important these days, whether it is a note taking application or a social network. If you are looking for a simple way to back up your Facebook profile, you should check out a service known as Facebook2Zip.

Facebook2Zip is a useful online service which let users back up and download your Facebook photos. To use the service, you must first authorize the application to access your data on Facebook. One good feature of Facebook2Zip is that it even let users download photo albums of any friend as well. If you want to back up your profile, select your name from the options provided and click Next. It will ask you whether you want to download a specific album or all the photos. Select the option which you want, click on the download button and you are done.

Please note the time it takes to process and download depends on the number of photos you or any friend of yours has uploaded to Facebook.

Features

Free and easy to use.
Backup your Facebook profile photos.
Download photos of any friend.
Similar tool: MyCube Vault.
Also read related article: How To Backup & Archive All Your Facebook Data.

Check out Facebook2Zip @ www.facebook2zip.com