Why backup your WordPress blog yourself when your web host promised they will do it for you? Redundancy.

• You wouldn’t know when your host will go out of business
• When disaster will strike the data center
• It’s not all that uncommon with stories about web host holding customer’s files ransom.

By setting up an automated complete backup of your WordPress blog, you can set up your blog in the exact same way on another host without begging anyone, anytime you want.

Automating the process will give you better sleep at night knowing you will always have access to the latest backup, without ever doing anything.

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January 12th, 2011 marked the third year since SheepTech came to existent in 2008. Fast-forward three years, SheepTech still look the same, with the same logo and WordPress theme. The only changing aspect on SheepTech is the numbers—in terms of traffic, revenue and articles.

Traffic

For the past one year, SheepTech had receive more than half a million visitors, peaking in December with 64,598.

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Did any of your Facebook friends share the news about Facebook closing down on March 15th, 2011? The rumor originated from an article published on Weekly World News two days ago, claiming that Mark Zuckerberg decides to shut down Facebook due to stress.

Summary of the news article:

• Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will be shut down in March.
• “Facebook has gotten out of control, and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness,” said Zuckerberg.
• “I don’t care about the money,” said Zuckerberg. “I just want my old life back.”
• The Facebook Corporation suggests that users remove all of their personal information from the website before March 15th. After that date, all photos, notes, links, and videos will be permanently erased.

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After their massive success on iOS, Rovio had launch the addictive casual game on almost all possible platforms, including—Maemo,webOS, Android, Symbian^3, PSP/PlayStation 3, Windows, and Mac OS X.

As if it’s not “cross-platform” enough, Angry Birds will now be coming to your table. It’s not a typo, I really mean table, not tablet.

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Quora is a relatively new Q&A service that had been covered extensively on top tech blogs and news site, most notably TechCrunch. I have just got an account yesterday and took a quick tour. What sets it apart from more established Q&A sites like Yahoo! Answers and Mahalo?

The community. People on Quora are mostly professionals and experts in their respective fields, and this reflects in the quality of answers. There are even CEOs answering questions about their companies.

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(WordPress Plugin) Don’t fix something that is not broken. Before we look for the solution, let’s see what’s wrong with Akismet.

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