23 Jul 2011
Something happened to Dylan’s Google account, and it’s been disabled. He doesn’t know what happened to the account, and no one at Google with the power to help him is interested in acknowledging the problem or letting him back in to the cloud-based services where all of his correspondence and much of the digital trail from the last few years of his life is stored.
Google Deletes Last 7 Years Of User’s Digital Life, Shrugs – The Consumerist.
Gmail Backup is a free utility that backs up the email in a Gmail or Google Apps for domains account. It will backup all emails as individual files in the backup folder. Gmail Backup preserves Gmail Labels as well.
- Download the utility here – http://www.gmail-backup.com/download and install.
- Activate the IMAP access to your Gmail mailbox
- Open GMail settings
- Under the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab enable IMAP.
- Save changes
- Start Gmail Backup and fill in the fields.
The first backup will take a while depending on how much is in the Gmail account. You can save time later by updating the ‘Since Date’ field to the last time you backed up.
The developers of the Gmail Backup are:
For more reasons to back up visit their site: http://www.gmail-backup.com/reasons
08 Jun 2011
Google Maps is a great, free resource. If you have access to the Internet you can use Google Maps. Most smart phones also take advantage of Google Maps.
You can use Google Maps to scout out locations for deer and hunting.
There’s a tool to capture GPS coordinates from Google Maps from Deerhub.com. Watch the video to see how it works. It helps to watch the video full screen to see better how it works. Then go to Deerhub.com and get the bookmarklet.
30 May 2011
There is a lot written about deer collisions with vehicles. White-tailed deer can spread lyme disease by carrying ticks. The damage done to landscape shrubs is well documented also.
A study done by the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Va. illustrates the effect of deer over population on forests. The study blocked a forest plot from deer access. Over twenty years they observed the trees and other vegetation that returned to the enclosed forest. The conservationists noticed greater diversity of plants and trees in the area blocked from deer.
A hundred years ago deer were rare in Maryland and Virginia where the study takes place. In the early 1900’s the state game departments regulated hunting and in some cases brought deer in from other states. The conservationists were successful and deer continue to flourish.
A hundred years ago there were more hunters harvesting deer for food. Today owners and property managers block more deer habitat from hunters. With no predators deer population can grow out of control with devastating effect on forest vegetation. Parks and public lands can organize hunting to manage deer population. Private property and farmland is more difficult to manage.
Deerhub.com is web-based software designed to help hunt clubs and land owners manage hunting on private property.
Deer Overpopulation Yields Disastrous Results For Forests – News – WAMU 88.5 FM – American University Radio.
25 May 2011
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Do you have a hunting club? And want to coordinate better? Keep track of things?
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Your township or park needs to manage deer and hunters? Need better organization?
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A property owner who wants to allow hunting on their land? And want a way to keep up with who is hunting on your property.
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We’d be glad to hear from you.
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27 Apr 2011
Not locking your wireless network might not seem like a big deal — except of course when one of your shady neighbors logs on and downloads child pornography. As far as the authorities are concerned, that illegal activity originates from your wireless router, so you are the primary suspect.
Read more at FoxNews.com
This is definitely the most dramatic event coming from not securing WiFi that I’ve heard of…
Do not leave your WiFi unsecured.
Upgrading your FIOS router to WPA2