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We Had No Idea What Was About To Happen When We Posted This Photo On Facebook

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I was down at the end of the driveway, waving my laptop in the air, when I saw someone had posted on my Facebook page. It was a photo of my 2-year-old daughter in a swing….

Thomas Adam Johnson‘s insight:

This is a story about a picture of a woman’s child which went viral.  Parents should be made aware that a story like this could happen to them.  They should also make their sons and daughters aware that their photos and videos could go viral as well…good or bad.

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Backup your photos & videos automatically. Keep your memories safe with PicBackMan.

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Great tool. It backed up 150 GB of pictures seamlessly and keeps my folders in synch. Simple and effective.

Thomas Adam Johnson‘s insight:

This is a great program NOW FOR MAC that lets you bulk upload pics and videos to all different sources, like: Flikr, Picassa, Dropbox, Facebook, Box.com, Drive, and more.

See on www.picbackman.com

 

Track frequent flyer reward programs and plan your travel

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AwardWallet.com allows you to track frequent flyer miles for FREE. You can access your award balances from your cell phone, PDA or a BlackBerry.

Thomas Adam Johnson‘s insight:

I like that you can track multiple accounts and not just frequent flyer miles, but hotel rewards, car rewards, etc.

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Google Apps Management | FlashPanel

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rt-comings.  Google Apps Management Managing Google Apps successfully is crucial to running an organized domain. Users must be provisioned and deprovisioned in a timely manner and Groups and Org. Units should be set up to create efficiency within your organization. Traditionally, Google Apps management is done through the Google Apps Admin Console, which allows administrators to perform most of the necessary tasks. But the Admin Console is not only difficult to navigate, it actually lacks key features necessary for managing a …

Thomas Adam Johnson‘s insight:

With the integration of Google Apps for education at our school there are some shortcomings.  One of them is group contacts.  FlashPanel appears to be the best solution, although it costs money.  For example, we will populate the lists so that someone can type in a last name into the address bar and a student’s name, along with their parent’s email addresses will populate to be chosen.  Wow!

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