by Lee Mathews on February 18, 2011 at 08:00 AM

When Yahoo announced it was ready to wash its hands of Delicious, panicked users began looking for alternative places to send their cloud bookmarks. Delicious, however, responded quickly and said there was nothing to worry about -- the service was still being maintained and your bookmarks didn't need to be rescued from a burning building.
Never ones to miss an opportunity, Google has finally ...
by Lee Mathews on January 17, 2011 at 04:00 PM

Microsoft Outlook lets you export your notes, but your file type choices are pretty limited. The same can be said for Evernote's import feature, which only handles its own export files or Microsoft OneNote 2007 or newer. Thankfully, a gent named Richard was kind enough to point us toward a script he created to make moving notes from Outlook to Evernote as easy as possible.
Download his ...
by Jay Hathaway on November 16, 2010 at 09:30 AM

With Google calling out Facebook last week for trapping your contacts, it seems like a perfect time to offer a solution for rescuing those Facebook contacts and their email addresses -- sorry, still no phone numbers -- and exporting them to Gmail or your other address book of choice.
To do this, you'll need a Yahoo! account (Mozilla's Asa Dotzler says a Windows Live account works, too). It's ...
by Vlad Bobleanta on November 9, 2010 at 05:45 PM

Google has just announced the availability of a Zip export tool for waves created in the almost defunct Google Wave. This looks like it's just the first step of many that will let you get the data you've created in Wave out of the service before it's eventually shut down forever.
Within any wave, there's now an Export menu that lets you save the wave and any attachments that have been added ...
by Jay Hathaway on September 19, 2010 at 10:30 AM

Posterous and TwitPic have been in an ongoing battle over Posterous' efforts to release an app that lets you pull your TwitPic photos into your Posterous blog. After the first attempt, TwitPic blocked Posterous entirely, and threatened to sue, so Posterous took down the app. Now it's back, though, as an Adobe-Air-based export tool that TwitPic can't block (yet).
The new tool lets you sign in ...
by Lee Mathews on August 27, 2010 at 11:00 AM

Erez loves crunching data in Excel. And he loves making sure he's not getting off track and being unproductive in his browser when there's work to do. I haven't asked, but I'm thinking Historian would be right up his alley.
It's a free, portable tool for Windows which can export history data from all the major web browsers to delimited text file. Once saved, you're free to open the file in ...
by Sebastian Anthony on June 1, 2010 at 01:00 PM

Rejoice! No longer must you hack and slash at your preferences folder to backup or share your workspace -- there's a script to do it for you! Simply grab the script, unzip it, then Files>Scripts>Browse in Photoshop.
The ingenious engineers at Adobe are obviously hard at work on CS6, and this script is likely an early example of what we can expect in the next iteration of the Creative ...
by Lee Mathews on April 20, 2010 at 11:15 AM

Looking for a dead-simple way to back up your Firefox profile? It doesn't get much simpler than portprofile.
Regardless of what OS you're using -- Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac -- anywhere you can run Firefox you can run portprofile. It's provided as a Java web start app which means as long as you have Java installed, you can simply click and launch it right from the Google code project page. ...
by Lee Mathews on December 9, 2009 at 01:00 PM

Google has finally made it easy to download all your files from Google Docs in one fell swoop. In the official blog post they're calling the move "news from the Data Liberation Front."
It's a logical feature to offer with any online service. Now, there is a limit - 2GB - but that ought to cover just about all your Docs data unless you have some uber-massive presentations stored there. Google ...
by Jay Hathaway on November 4, 2009 at 07:30 AM

Flickr has an open and very powerful API that's been around since 2004. Five years later, developers have built an enormous number of great apps and cool toys for Flickr. Now you can browse and discover Flickr apps in one central location, the new App Garden. Apps in the garden range from stats to importing/exporting to integration with other sites.
Although Flickr has chosen some featured ...
by Jay Hathaway on October 28, 2009 at 07:00 AM

One of the first moves from Google's Data Liberation Front is the option to take your documents out of Google Docs with a new Convert, Zip and Download feature. You'll find the new feature under "export" in the More Actions menu. You can download multiple docs at once - wouldn't be music of a data liberation feature otherwise, right? - and that includes text documents, presentations and ...
by Jason Clarke on October 27, 2008 at 01:00 PM

If you've ever wondered what the easiest way is to send photos from iPhoto to Facebook, the answer is Facebook Exporter for iPhoto. Since Facebook is the largest photo website on the web in terms of images served, it makes sense that people would want to streamline the process of uploading photos to it as much as possible. Using Facebook Exporter for iPhoto, the process couldn't be more simple. ...
by Jay Hathaway on August 11, 2008 at 12:00 PM

If you use iPhoto, and you have a Flickr account, but you don't have a way of getting your pictures from one to the other, you might want to give FFXporter a look. It's a free iPhoto plugin that -- just as the name would indicate -- exports files from your iPhoto library to Flickr. Although there are other ways of getting this done, I have yet to find another free one that works as well. ...
by Nancy Messieh on July 8, 2008 at 05:00 PM

Need to reinstall Windows but you misplaced your driver disks? Not sure you have everything you need? DriverMax has you covered. Backing up and reinstalling your drivers couldn't be easier. After installing DriverMax, go into Driver Operations and click on Export drivers. A list of all your installed drivers will be displayed and you can pick and choose which ones to export, or simply export ...
by Brad Linder on April 9, 2008 at 04:00 PM

It's Microsoft's world and we're all just living in it. As much as you may try to pretend this is true, it becomes readily apparent any time somebody launches a Microsoft Office competitor. Because the first question isn't "does it have all of the features I'd expect from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint?" No, the first question is "can it open MS Office documents and save documents in Office formats?" ...