Automatically backup all your social media



If you’re a social media junkie, you spend gobs of time online updating your Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc.  Since you are investing so much time onlline, have you considered backing up all of your social media? That’s where Backupify comes in. Backupify backs up all of your important online social media. Once you setup a particular service, Backupify handles the rest automatically backing up and archiving your social media.

Twitter backup is free and you end up with a PDF that you can download with all your updates and links intact.

Here is a list of services that Backupify supports:

Flickr Twitter Delicious Zoho Google Docs Photobucket WordPress Basecamp Gmail

Facebook FriendFeed Blogger Hotmail Picasa Web Albums Google Contacts Google Calendar

Check out Backupify.

The Beatles USB boxed set

In addition to the remastered Beatles CD set, you can also get the boxed set on a limited edition USB drive. The packaging is quite clever. The stem pulls out of the apple to reveal the USB drive. Here’s a description from Amazon:

The exquisitely crafted, apple-shaped USB drive is loaded with the critically acclaimed re-mastered audio for The Beatles’ 14 stereo titles, as well as all of the re-mastered CDs visual elements, including 13 mini-documentary films about the studio albums, replicated original UK album art, rare photos and expanded liner notes. A specially designed Flash interface has been installed, and the 16GB USB’s audio and visual contents will be provided in FLAC 44.1 Khz 24 bit and MP3 320 Kbps formats, fully compatible with PC and Mac.

Lucky

A hauntingly beautifully black and white animation by MIE.

FarmVille Parody

Alienate your friends. Old McDonald had a FARM(ville). This parody ad is funny and right on the money. Keep your farm cash and your FARMville!

Turn any wall into a dry erase board

Use IdeaPaint to turn the existing walls around your office or home into a dry erase board. Why search for a piece of paper when you can just write on the wall!

Each kit covers 25 square feet of space. Simply apply the paint just like you normally would – with a roller.

Purchase a kit at Behance Outfitter.

Send me something

The basic premise of SendMeSomething.org is to do just that. You send a self addressed envelope to the address listed on the site and they will send you something.  According to the FAQs on SendMeSomething, you probably won’t receive anything of any monetary value. Nor will they send you something evil like cat vomit. It’s a surprise!

Their goal is to have it back to you in 2 -3 weeks. They’ll even send you something even if you live outside of the United States provided that you put enough postage on it. The people behind SendMeSomething claim it’s a self funded project and fairly inexpensive to administer since the items they send are of little monetary value and the postage is pre-paid.

Get more energy

Brilliant ad campaign from Stir. The campaign is for Agnesian Center for Sleep Disorders.

Funny New Years quotes

With yet another new year upon us, I thought it would be fun to look back at some of the wisdom people have shared over the years.

Mark Twain
New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

Jay Leno
Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average… which means, you have met your New Year’s resolution.

New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.

Charles Lamb
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.

Oprah Winfrey
Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.

Bill Vaughn
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”

William Thomas
It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.

Oscar Wilde
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

John Selden
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.

Beautiful art from ordinary toilet tissue rolls

This piece entitled ‘Corner Forrest’ by artist Yuken Teruya is created entirely out of discarded cardboard toilet tissue rolls. The branches are meticulous cut by hand and bent into place completing an evolution from tree, to cardboard, to tree art.