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§ ita § - Aug 15, 2011 3:13:50 pm PDT #17460 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Does everyone have a tracker or something installed on their smartphone/tablet in case of loss or theft? I realised that with the way Android Market works, I can install something remotely on mine to do that after if it's been stolen, if I'm fast enough.

What's recommended for the major phone OSes?

Gudanov - Aug 15, 2011 4:57:35 pm PDT #17461 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

And I really need to figure out a way to back up my mail.

I've been meaning to try out Gmail Backup from gmail-backup.com. It looks like they try to make it easy. Setting up a local client like Outlook or Thunderbird to download messages via IMAP would work too, but it can get complicated.

DCJensen - Aug 15, 2011 7:13:45 pm PDT #17462 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

I set my Gmail for pop access, and have Thunderbird making a copy of all my Gmail, leaving a copy on the server. I set it and forget it, as long as I open Thunderbird with regularity, it gets downloaded. And Thunderbird opens a lot when I send links to friends from Firefox.

§ ita § - Aug 15, 2011 7:21:35 pm PDT #17463 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

GMail to an offline archive.

Jessica - Aug 16, 2011 3:12:46 am PDT #17464 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I've heard very good things about Backupify, though I haven't tried them personally.

Tom Scola - Aug 16, 2011 5:24:47 am PDT #17465 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Does everyone have a tracker or something installed on their smartphone/tablet in case of loss or theft? I realised that with the way Android Market works, I can install something remotely on mine to do that after if it's been stolen, if I'm fast enough.

How Plan B found the Droid I was looking for

Gris - Aug 16, 2011 5:41:23 am PDT #17466 of 25501
Hey. New board.

I'm using that backup-gmail.com application right now. Seems to be working great. I watched it download my messages until some of the subject lines from when I first got the account (in college) got embarrassing. Then I minimized it. But it seems to be backing up just fine.

ETA: It doesn't seem to come in a mac version, BTW, though the Linux version might work on a mac.

megan walker - Aug 16, 2011 5:51:35 am PDT #17467 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

With the new Yahoo sucking, and the increasing desire to not use Google, anyone have a rec for free email?

Tom Scola - Aug 16, 2011 5:58:41 am PDT #17468 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

How tied up in the Apple infrastructure are you? Apple will have free email later this fall.

megan walker - Aug 16, 2011 6:02:18 am PDT #17469 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Except for my iPod, not at all. Although (hang on to your hats), I was in the AT&T store yesterday contemplating smartphones. Apple might work.

And, of course, now they're a client.

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