Backing up Thunderbird or Firefox profiles

The mantra of the Linux world is “Always backup important data!!!” This is usually instructed directly before installing Linux onto a system, or otherwise doing anything that could even remotely corrupt anything. Better to be safe than sorry.
Backing up a Thunderbird or Firefox profile is important, too. Especially if you’re like me, [...]

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The best laid plans…

While it appeared that I had found the social bookmarker for me…it appears that that site is dead and abandoned. After waiting 48 hours for my bookmarks to be imported, I sent an email to Spurl.net support asking if the site was, indeed, dead. I also found a post on their support forum [...]

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Social Bookmarkers – which one do you use?

With the use of FireFox Portable comes the issue of syncing bookmarks. While there probably are apps and FireFox extensions that can sync your bookmarks, all of these (plus the bookmarks) take up more and more space on the flash drive. So I’ve decided to give “social bookmarking” a go.
The thing is, all [...]

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Your Life on a Stick

College courses that involve essays, reports, presentations, and other communications-related assignments — most of them, that is — make flash drives essential, especially if you don’t own your own computer/laptop. And even if you do have your own little workstation, a portable flash drive is very handy for accessing the campus printers.
But those little [...]