Social network and lifestream backup services are a needle in a hay stack nowadays, sure there are a wide variety of services that backup one or two of your networks, but what if I were to tell you that there was one backup tool to rule them all?

A new online startup funded by First Round Capital called Backupify allows you to backup networks like GmailTwitterGoogle DocsFlickrFacebook,BasecampWordPressDeliciousPhotobucketBlogger and FriendFeed. Now that’s a long list, but Backupify allows you to backup all of these services, and they are in the process of releasing more in the future.

Backing up your whole online life is as easy as entering your login information for the network of your choice and clicking backup, you can also backup and manage different accounts for the same network. If Twitter or Flickr ever kick the bucket and lose all of your information, Backupify will restore your account to its previous state, most of the restoring is done manually by coders since automated backup is not yet available for some services.

With all that work involved in restoring certain networks, it really goes to show you how committedBackupify is to customer service and providing a good product to consumers.

To start Backupify has a free account option with memory space up to 1gb, and paid subscriptions will be rolling out shortly. In many aspects Backupifyis ahead of the game being one of the first all in one lifestream backup tools on the web, Backupify has just officially raised the bar for all web backup services.

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Yesterday I finally received my Free All Music invite after signing up over a month ago. FAM is an awesome concept which in the future I imagine will replace iTunes in a split second. FAM allows you to download music for FREE, yup that’s right nada, zero, nill. The only catch is that you watch an ad before you download it, they even let you pick the ad! The downloads are wicked fast (possibly because it’s a very small beta) but still very impressive.FAM  also has a large music selection from all over the world, I even found quite a few artists from France and other parts of Europe that ITunes does not even allow me to download because I am not from that specific country or continent. FAM allows each user to download 5 songs a week (which starts on Tuesday for them), and please realize that these free songs do not carry over like cell phone minutes, each week the max remains 5. I hope that FAM will not become another Lala where Apple buys them out, that would really be a shame.

Free music based on just watching a quick ad is a firm concept in the current economic times and anything that is free always stands the test of time in any market.  Check them out and sign up for their beta!

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Screenr is a very useful online screen capture tool. It’s very simple to use and integrates flawlessly with twitter. After going to the site and starting a screen capture session, Screenr will run a java application in the background of your computer and then transfer the footage from your screen to the website for publication. You can publish it to twitter or download it to your computer. Screenr is just one of the many online screen capture tools, but I found that this one worked the best (a lot of the other ones just would not work at all). When you post it to twitter, Screenr also allows iPhones to effortlessly see the screen cast.  So if you need a reliable online screen capture tool for a variety of projects and tasks, check out Screenr!

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With lots of rumors flying around the blogosphere, it is believed that this is the ad that Google will air tomorrow during the 3rd quarter of the SuperBowl.

Check it out, it’s really something special!

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failin.gs is a brand new startup jointly created by Danny Peck and Stephen Celis, Their idea is dead simple, create an honest web. failin.gs allows a user to see what their friends and colleagues really think about them, whether the feedback is positive  or negative is another story. failin.gs could be called an online self help tool, letting users benefit from the anonymous feedback they receive from friends and family, but could also turn into a lot more. Failin.gs should be going live very soon, and I can’t wait to see the public’s reaction to Danny and Stephen’s project. I had the great opportunity to interview Danny and Stephen about their project and without further adieu read on below. I think this is just the beginning of their success in the startup scene.

What is failin.gs and how do you think it will effect the social networking market?

failin.gs is a website that lets you create a profile, blast it to your network, and have people you know come in and give you completely anonymous feedback about you.  Maybe there’s some personality flaw that you have but don’t know about?  Well maybe now you can.  It’s an exercise in self-realization, and we hope it won’t be hurtful but fun for people.

As for how it will affect the market, it’s hard to say.  We hope it will have a positive impact on encouraging people to embrace a more honest web.  We’ll see. It’s something of a leap of faith to see if people can “play nice.” I think they can, but people have disagreed with me.

How did the idea of failin.gs come together and who was involved in its creation?

Stephen Celis and I are always bouncing ideas off of one another, and this is an idea I’ve been kicking around for a while.  There aren’t any sites that do specifically THIS, and I’ve always heard you should build a webapp of something that you yourself want.  Chances are, there are a bunch of other people that want the same thing, even if they don’t know it yet.  So we started talking about it.

How did you decide on the name failin.gs?

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Logitech has just released an interactive mouse application for the iPhone/iPod touch platform. With this app you can remotely (through your wireless network) control the mouse and keyboard functions of your computer. The best part is that the app is completely free via the AppStore. After testing out the app, its extremely responsive and has a lot of configurable options. The software is a simple worry free install;  In order to start using Logitech’s TouchMouse App you need to go to http://bit.ly/9YMnj7 and download Logitech’s  “server” software which allows your iPod touch or iPhone to connect to your computer effortlessly. After the server software is installed just open up the app on your device and select your computer from the list above and off you go.  If your computer does not seem to be on the list above you can use the IP address option, your IP address can easily be found by right clicking on the Logitech TouchMouse server icon in your taskbar.

I found this app very useful, especially if you have your TV hooked up to your computer or  you are doing a presentation. Go check it out, its really worth a try if you have an iPhone or a iPod touch.

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