sync your pidgin logs on multiple computers using dropbox

Between work and home, I had four different computers on which I used Pidgin for my instant messaging. When I really enjoy about Pidgin is the ability to log my conversations so I can search back through for information that I was discussion previously, mostly with coworkers. I hated that my logs did not sync between my computers so I figured I would create a basic workaround to allow me to synchronize my logs using Dropbox on all of my Windows machines: ...

September 10, 2013 · 2 min · mbentley

backing up all of your itunes settings

i’ve seen tons of posts around the internet regarding backing up itunes. most of them seem to focus on backing up your itunes library. while this is great, it doesn’t cover everything you probably want to back up when doing something like a complete reinstall of windows. if you only back up your library, you will lose your settings as well as your playlists. if you are like me, you have your music stored on a central server somewhere so backing up your music on your local computer is pointless anyway. ...

March 25, 2010 · 2 min · mbentley