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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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Tags: How-To

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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Tags: Computers & Tech · How-To

Three Interesting How To Videos

August 14th, 2008 · Comments Off

I ran across these videos the other day on Lifehacker and wanted to share a few of them. I especially like the Japanese shirt folding video – it absolutely boggles my mind how quickly they did it.
Get 8 watch batteries from a AA battery

Fold a t-shirt in two motions

Boost your wireless router’s signal

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Tags: Miscellaneous

DIY Rock Band Guitar Stand

August 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off

I got bored yesterday and started looking around on Instructables and found this gem – a guitar stand made of PVC. I realized this would be handy to have, as I have 2 Rock Band guitars, 1 Guitar Hero 3 guitar, and 2 Guitar Hero 2 guitars (on loan at the moment). Instead [...]

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Tags: How-To