From the monthly archives:

May 2009

How To Fix A Hacked Facebook Account

by Rob May on May 31, 2009 in facebook
Facebook App Settings

As Facebook grows, hacked accounts are becoming more frequent. It is a natural problem for any computer system that increases in size. More users means more targets, which means more interest in hacking facebook. The best way to fix a hacked Facebook account is never get hacked in the first place. Don’t choose a password [...]

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Imindi Loses User Data

by Rob May on May 28, 2009 in Lost Data

Techcrunch is reporting that Imindi.com accidentally deleted all user accounts. We don’t yet support Imindi, so there isn’t much we can do to help Imindi users recover their accounts. But, this is a great example of why you should back up your lifestream. Any service that you use regularly builds up a large amount of [...]

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Hacked Facebook Accounts

by Rob May on May 16, 2009 in Hacked Accounts

One of the most common responses I get when I tell people about Lifestreambackup is that they say they trust the cloud and so they don’t need it. Yet, every week I see hacked accounts, cloud failures, lost data, and all kinds of other things that make me thing people really need to back up [...]

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How Lifestream Backup Began

by Rob May on May 03, 2009 in About Backupify

In Novemember I was in New York and met up with Charlie to catch up and talk about business. I explained that I wasn’t pursuing any major ideas at the moment, and Charlie mentioned that he would pay $5/month for a tool that would back up his Flickr account. I thought he was crazy. No [...]

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