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Some people like to keep a personal and private diary or journal. It may be for just jotting down thoughts that you want to remember for some reason, perhaps private reflections on daily happenings or whatever reason it may be. I have tried to keep a diary on a number of occasions – with varying degrees of success. I was never able to keep it up for great periods of time however.

I am trying to keep a journal again now. I use two online resources for doing so now. The first is penzu – which I really wanted to test out and see if it was any good and if it met my needs. Penzu is an application that is allows users to have their own personal and private diary or journal stored online (or in the ‘cloud,’ as they say these days). You are also able to share your entries with the world should you so wish – but they are private by default.

Penzu is free to sign up for and there is a permanent free version of the application. There is of course also a premium or paid for version which offers more options.

The free version also allows you to insert photos (including those stored at flickr). There is a very useful auto-save feature, which means you won’t loose your entries by forgetting to save them. Should you choose to share an entry with others, there is a comments feature for others to share their thoughts on your entry.

The ‘pro’ or ‘premium’ version has a lot more to offer. I don’t have the premium account, just the free one at this stage. Should you choose to upgrade you are of course able to do so. Should you wish to secure your entries to a greater degree than the free version, the premium version allows for that. The premium version also allows for larger photos, more than one diary or journal, the ability to export data in a number of formats, mobile diary ability, email posts to your diary, set reminders, tagging of posts, etc.

Check out the site at:
https://penzu.com/home

Backupify: Last Chance to Get a Premium Account for Free – Ends Monday

According to the backupify blog, free Premium accounts will be closing on Monday, so time is running out to get a great online backup service for your online accounts – like Flickr, Twitter, Gmail, etc.

From Monday there will still be free accounts, however these will be limited to 2Gb of storage and one account for each service that backupify offers online backups for. Larger amounts of storage and features will be available in two available premium offerings at $39 and $59 a year. Those who have taken advantage of free premium accounts up until Monday will be transferred to the $39 model for free (with 10Gb of storage).

More information on what is available can be found via the backupify site (click on the blog link) at:

http://www.backupify.com/index.php

So why is the post of the day – it’s a free online backup service that I use and I think is terrific.

Download Videos

There seem to be a lot of sites that now enable you to download video from the likes of YouTube. Today’s link is to one of these sites. This site is very easy to use – simply place the URL of the video into the box and hit the download Button. Not a lot to it. You can download a video from YouTube, Google Videos, Flickr, etc.

http://savevideo.me/