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Backup Your Gmail With… Gmail Backup

November 5th, 2008 · Comments Off

Yesterday’s article was written giving instructions on how to back up all your email accounts using some pretty simple techniques. In the end, Thunderbird was the agent that we used to grab all the email from our gateway account. Today, I’d like to show you how we can accomplish the same thing with a different [...]

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How To Use Gmail as an Email Backup Service

November 4th, 2008 · Comments Off

With recent horror stories of Google users getting locked out of their accounts floating around the Internet, it makes you reconsider putting so much trust in Google. A lot of people have all their eggs in the Google basket, but they could too be locked out at any given time. Gmail could also go down [...]

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Laconica, XMPP, SMS, Oh My!

September 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

Last Monday’s post was a bunch of directions on how to install Laconica on your own server. What the directions failed to mention was how to set up the good stuff – XMPP, SMS, and posting via email. Today I’ll go over how to get XMPP and SMS running.
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