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How to Easily Download All your Instagram Photos to your Computer

 

Instagram is a great iPhone app for sharing photos on Facebook, Twitter  Email and other social networking sites. The only problem is that if you don’t share your photos on the aforementioned social networking sites or email, there’s no easy way to access them online through your computer. Well, not anymore. Instaport will help you backup your entire Instagram photo collection to your hard drive the easy way without opening your iPhone.

To download your Instagram photos, simply allow Instaport access to your Instagram account and choose which export service you want to use and hit the “Start Export” button. As of now you can only choose the Download Zip file option. In the future, Instaport will let you backup your Instagram photos to your Facebook and Flickr accounts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Tags: app, backup, Instagram, Instaport, iphone, Photos

BlogVault: Instant Backup for your WordPress Blog

Maintaining a blog is not entirely easy. Checking for bugs, updating plugins, optimizing tables, scripts and constantly checking for new features is what a blogger who uses hosted WordPress as a blog platform normally does to maintain it. Then, there’s also the constant backup in case your blog suddenly crashes. Luckily there are plugins that we can use to easily backup WordPress blogs. One of those plugins is called BlogVault.

BlogVault is a service that creates a backup of your blog. What it does is it backs up all aspects of a WordPress blog including full posts, comments, pages, images, plugins, themes and styleshees (CSS). Most WordPress blog backup plugins will copy and backup your blog to your computer harddrive. What makes BlogVault different from those plugins is that it has a service that lets you backup your blog in their servers.

Why should you backup your blog?

Servers while generally robust do tend to fail occasionally. When this happens, often all the stored data is lost. As a blogger you do not want your effort to be lost when such a catastrophe occurs.

To take advantage of BlogVault, simply sign-up for an account, download the plugin and place it in the plugins folder of your hosted WordPress in your server. Once the plugin has been activated, you can immediately begin your backup process.

Tags: backup, Blog, BlogVault, Hosted Wordpress, wordpress

BackupURL: Create Cached Copy of Any URL

Here’s a simple tool that you can use to create backup of pages that you found online. BackupURL makes it easy for you to create a cached copy of any web page. All you have to do is enter the URL of the page you want cached. What BackupURL does is store that page to their servers so that you can view them even if the site goes down.

This can be useful for creating copies of pages that tend to go down from time to time, that is if BackupURL itself doesn’t go down on you. It can also be used to save data that are often deleted or modified. If you made a comment on a page or a blog post and concerned that it may get deleted or modified by the owner, this might come in handy in providing proof.

You will be given a URL for your cached page and a short URL is also provided for easy sharing on micro blogs. This might not be your everyday app but it’s worth checking out especially for site owners. It might come in handy sometime.

Tags: backup, BackupURL, Cache, URL, Web Pages

Backup to Email: Useful Backup Tool for your Files

Before proceeding, I would like to remind you that this application works only on Windows operated machines, even though the Linux guys will have no trouble running this app. This particularly small (1.69MB) but useful application will help you backup any file or folder to your email as easy as right clicking your file and then performing the backup. What makes this even cooler is that you don’t have to worry about splitting your files in order to do the backup. Backup to Email will do the split for you if you exceed the 10MB file size limit. Backup to Email can also merge it back together if you want your files to be in its old self again.

Backup to Email is very easy to setup. Download the application here, install and configure. I would recommend on using a Gmail account for your backups for it gives you unlimited space. You can use your existing gmail address or create a new one just for storage purposes. If you are going to use Gmail, just place in the email address that you want to send your files to and the sending email address (which can be the same email) , the outgoing server  (smtp.gmail.com), place a check on both check boxes )for SSL and Requires Authentication ), and key in your Gmail username and password. If you put a check on the “Ask for target email every Backup to Email” box the app will ask you which email are you going to put the file. This works well if you have multiple email accounts configured in your Backup to Email app. If you don’t want to be bugged by the software every time you do a backup, just leave the box unchecked.

This is a handy app that can be useful and will save you time in backing up your files in case something bad happens to your PC. You can also make use of this to easily forward large attachments by taking advantage of the auto splitting feature for files greater than 10MB.

Tags: application, backup, email, file, Software, split, Windows