Posts tagged How To

How To: Keep your Twitter, Facebook, GChat, AIM, iChat and LinkedIn status in sync.

I’ve had a lot of questions asking me how I keep my status updates in sync across my different social networks. In this video I detail how I go about keeping my Twitter status, Facebook status, GChat status, iChat status, AIM status and my LinkedIn status in sync. More >

How to Backup All of Your “Stuff”, the Right Way

I’m going to take you on a journey through my paranoia about losing all of the precious “stuff’ I have accumulated through my years of computer use. All of this stems from a massive hard drive failure I had in college when I lost every single one of my pictures and music files that I’ve had since I started using a computer. It took months and many different trips to various computer shops to recover just a fraction of the data I lost and ended up costing me lots more than a backup solution would have. Why is it that we never learn the cardinal rule of computing until it’s too late? BACK UP YOUR STUFF!!

First, let me give you a picture of how I store my information and where I store it. More >

Video Demo: How To Follow Your Facebook Friends’ Status Updates With Twitter

10/12/09 UPDATE:  It looks like Facebook has disabled the RSS feed capability.  This trick no longer works now.  Hopefully this will be fixed soon.  I’ll bring you an update when it does.  http://staynalive.com/articles/2009/08/28/when-did-facebook-remove-rss-for-friends-status-updates/
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