Backup
Archive All Your Mac Sticky Notes by Converting to PDF [Sticky Notes]
If you've got a clutter of Stickies on your Mac desktop and you want to archive them all in one fell swoop, here's a kludge jury-rigged from Print to PDF: While there?s no direct ?export all? feature ....... read more
7 days ago
Stash My Mail Grabs All Your Webmail for One Dollar [Backup Utilities]
Stash My Mail, an email Backup service deliberately aimed at non-tech-types, grabs all of the messages and attachments in your Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, or other POP/IMAP-compatible email account and delive ....... read more
10 days ago
Clonezilla Backs Up and Restores Your Disks [Featured Download]
All platforms: Clonezilla is an open source, Linux-based alternative to commercial disk cloning tools like Symantec Ghost and Acronis True Image. Unfamiliar with the process of disk cloning? In a nut ....... read more
13 days ago
Gmail Backup Archives Your Email Account [Featured Download]
Windows/Mac/Linux: Gmail Backup saves and restores complete archives of your Gmail email account using Gmail's built-in IMAP capability. The Windows version comes with a simple graphical interface &m ....... read more
18 days ago
How do You "Future Proof" Your Data? [Ask The Readers]
Jerome P. McDonough, assistant professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, is concerned about data. Your data, the government's data, the world' ....... read more
20 days ago
Top 10 Online Freebies and Deals [Lifehacker Top 10]
Unless you're a financial Jedi Knight or economic Sith Lord, you probably don't have a ton of control over our turbulent economy. What you can reign over is your spending and saving—and when yo ....... read more
21 days ago
iBackup Schedules Advanced OS X Backup [Featured Mac Download]
Mac OS X only: Free application iBackup is an advanced Backup utility featuring support for everything from run-of-the-mill files to application preferences. That means backing up important files or D ....... read more
Thu,
23 Oct 2008
Online Storage Feature-by-Feature Comparison Chart [Online Storage]
Seems like every day a new online data storage service opens its servers to the world, practically begging users to eat up their bandwidth and store their data, or at least back it up, to "the cloud." ....... read more
Fri,
17 Oct 2008
Back Up Your Tumblr Blog [Tumblelogs]
The Digital Inspiration blog points outs the nifty webapp Tumblelog Backup Tool, which can export all the posts, photos, and anything else from your Tumblr blog—or any other Tumblelog, actually. ....... read more
Wed,
08 Oct 2008
Share Files and Remote Control Desktops with Gbridge [Screenshot Tour]
More than a few commenters had questions about the Gbridge tool for Windows we featured last week, which works on top of your Google account to provide file sharing and remote desktop capabilities. ....... read more
Mon,
29 Sep 2008
Transfer SIM Chips with a Business Card [Cell Phones]
Wired's How-To Wiki details how to use a business card to swap out a SIM chip for easy contact and data backup. Can't seem to back up to your chip, or can't trade it out? Try backing up all your data ....... read more
Fri,
26 Sep 2008
Gbridge Does Simple but Secure File Sharing, Syncing, and VNC [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Free application Gbridge sets up a virtual private network between any computer over the internet using your Google account as a starting point. Once set up, Gbridge allows you to share ....... read more
Sun,
21 Sep 2008
Google Chrome Backup Manages User Profiles [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Free application Google Chrome Backup makes it easy to create, back up, restore, and manage profiles with Google's hot new web browser. If you took a ride on our power user's guide to Go ....... read more
Mon,
15 Sep 2008
SoftKey Revealer Finds and Saves Software Serial Numbers [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: SoftKey Revealer, from the same author of previously mentioned Game Key Revealer, is an appropriately-titled utility that can hunt down the serial numbers for more than 700 purchased or ....... read more
Thu,
11 Sep 2008
Dropbox for Linux Adds Online Backup to Desktop [Featured Linux Download]
Dropbox, the free, web-based Backup service previously available only for Windows and Mac computers, has added a free, open-source client for Linux to its offerings. Installing Dropbox puts a folder n ....... read more
Thu,
11 Sep 2008
Insure Your Data with Personal Backup [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Freeware Backup application Personal Backup offers lots of flexibility for backing up important files both locally and over a network using FTP or SFTP protocols. The application itself ....... read more
Thu,
11 Sep 2008
Eight Best KeePass Plug-Ins to Master Your Passwords [Passwords]
A good password management application makes your life easier and your identity monumentally more secure, and free application KeePass—the most popular password manager among Lifehacker readers ....... read more
Tue,
09 Sep 2008
Tweetake Backs Up Your Tweets to CSV Files [Twitter]
There's a good chance Twitter might never lose all the messages, replies, following lists, and other data its users have racked up over its short, expansive life—then again, it's not exactly the ....... read more
Sat,
23 Aug 2008
Virtual Volumes View Indexes Backup CDs and DVDs [Featured Download]
Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): Having an automated, secure, off-site Backup solution is a great idea, but for many folks, burning their data and system files to CD and DVD is just more manageable. ....... read more
Wed,
20 Aug 2008
EASEUS Disk Copy Makes a Fast Clone of Your Hard Drive [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only All platforms: Free boot CD EASEUS Disk Copy copies any disk or partition sector-by-sector for an exact copy of the original. Disk Copy is a perfect tool for upgrading your operating syst ....... read more
Tue,
19 Aug 2008