Backup Your Online Accounts Free

Backupify is a new web app that allows you to backup all of your online accounts for free. Online accounts probably contain more sensitive information these days than do our computers themselves, so it is a good idea to back them up. You only have to set up the backup service once and then it automatically backs up your accounts. It is totally secure and private and the service is free until the end of January. Follow the founder on Twitter: @robmay

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Locate your lost computer: FireFound

FireFound is a Firefox add-on that notifies a central server with your computer's location every time it changes. The only way to discover your computer's location is to use your password, as it is otherwise encrypted. It can also clear all of your personal data at your request including all of your passwords for online accounts, banking info, etc so if anyone attempts to use your computer, they cannot access this data.

This is also an open source tool so you can run your own FireFound server.

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Enhance Your Web Surfing with useKit

useKit is a great new bookmarklet that adds several tools to your browser that enhance your surfing. These include being able to tweet from highlighted text, viewing physical addresses as a map, adding sticky notes to web pages, translating text and adding the page as a bookmark to Delicious. Your useKit info is stored remotely so you never lose it, and best of all, it's free. Check it out: useKit.com

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Fast Flip from Google Labs

This is a new feature over at Google Labs that enables you to read content closer to how you would with a physical copy of it. Flip pages like a newspaper or a magazine: http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/

It's pretty nifty, but it's not to replace my RSS feeds.

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The History of The Internet

An exceptional article from Six Revisions: The History of the Internet in a Nutshell:

One of the most impressive developments of 1971 was the start of Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg, for those unfamiliar with the site, is a global effort to make books and documents in the public domain available electronically–for free–in a variety of eBook and electronic formats.

It began when Michael Hart gained access to a large block of computing time and came to the realization that the future of computers wasn’t in computing itself, but in the storage, retrieval and searching of information that, at the time, was only contained in libraries. He manually typed (no OCR at the time) the "Declaration of Independence" and launched Project Gutenberg to make information contained in books widely available in electronic form. In effect, this was the birth of the eBook.

The History of the Internet in a Nutshell

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Insanely Cool Invention: Sixth Sense Device

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Twitcritics.com

Awesome new use of the Twitter API: movie ratings based on tweets about each movie. Go check it out: Twitcritics.com

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Mobile Internet Usage on the Rise

From Mashable on the rise of Mobile Internet:

Mobile Internet usage is on the rise. Apple’s share of the mobile smartphone market is only going to increase. AT&T’s mobile data traffic has increased by 4,932% over the last three years. There will be over 1 billion “heavy mobile data users” by 2013.

These are just some of the stats that were shared with the audience at the Web 2.0 Summit today in San Francisco. Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker led a speedy and high-charged presentation over Internet trends. The data and stats packed in her 68 page presentation is nothing short of mind-boggling.

The focus of her presentation this year (she gives this rapid-fire speech every year at Web 2.0) was on Mobile Internet and 8 key trends that Morgan Stanley has identified, including that social networking + mobile are driving big changes in communication and commerce.

Read the rest Mobile Web Is Taking Over the World (and Other Internet Trends)

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Habitforge: Change Your Habits

Awesome new site that helps you break your bad habits and replace them with good ones. I'm all over this like a fat kid on a smartie:

It is said that it takes 21 consequent days to develop a habit. In other words; if you manage to hold out that long, you’ve practically made it.

Habitforge puts that rule to use, and helps you to make new habits or with managing away bad habits. It’s a site everyone can use to make that little tweak to their daily routine. The concept is very simple; report of your daily successes and failures until you manage to cross that 21 day mark. All you need is an internet browser and email address.

Read the rest: Form Good Habits and Break Bad Ones With Habitforge

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