Top 10 Tech Web Tips

Low Tech Blog Backup - Subscribe to Yourself!

Here is a Low Tech Web Tip for backing up your blog!

Simply establish an email feed subscription service on your blog, such as Feedblitz or Feedburner.  Then subscribe to it with your email account.  Every time you publish an article, you will get an email copy, which you can then file away in a folder in your email management system.

So if you have a blog covering auto accessories, then you can get an email backup of all of your articles that you publish. This also makes it easy for you to create a quick single article news article that you can forward to family and friends when you want to promote an article on say the latest in rims, or tires, stereo system or what have you. Everything is already formatted, you just have to hit send!

Now, I don’t do this on all of my own blogs(probably should) but I subscribe via email to my own blog feeds on several of them. This delivers up an email copy of all my bog articles, which I can use as a last line of defense against crashes.

Google Desktop for Offline Searches of Your Blogs

Its easy to do and you can pretty much just let it run and ignore it. Plus if you run google desktop it gives you another way to do a search of your blog content when you are offline.

Example Steps for Setting up Email Subscription in Feedburner

1. Login to Feedburner (burn a feed if you haven’t already set up your blog inFeedburner - just takes three steps)
2. Go to the Publicize tab and pick Email Subscriptions
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4. In Feedburner you have the choice, of three different services, Feedburners own, Feedblitz or Rmail
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6. Then Activate the option
7. Configure your options and select the html code, which you can then place in your blog template, likely in the sidebar, possibly on its own page.  Note. Feedburner doesn’t support widgets for WordPress yet, but the code is simple enough.
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9. Don’t forget to save your settings.
10. After you add the code to your blog and publish the updates via ftp, you should have a new Email Subscription option

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Electromagnetic Interference-Playing Havoc with your gear?

When I was in the Army we had to use DOD / NSA approved electronics that had been engineered with EMI Shielding capabilities for two reasons.

First, we didn’t want to have our electronic gear spied upon with technologies that can turn electromagnetic radioation coming from your machine back into real live data.

Second, we did not want to have the equipment zapped essentially with electromagnetic interference.

With a world that is suddenly going wireless there are more and more chances that electromagnetic interference will block your signals, but it doesn’t only refer to radio waves. Anything that uses electricity can emit an electromagnetic force.

This is why your hair dryer or microwave might interfere with your cordless phone or TV from time to time, it depends on the frequency essentially.

If you have important information stored on your computers or hard drives or backup drives or if you do not want your system to go down when your neighbor cranks up their microwave or when the office above you lights up their new Wireless system or cellular repeater, then you may need to take a look at the benefits of EMI shielding for your own systems.