Top 50 Australian Women’s Blogs

We Aussies are a proud and patriotic bunch aren’t we? I just love that no matter where you are we seem to manage to form a special friendship and community, like with our blogging. Our lists and groups where everyones a mate. Meg has done a fantastic job of helping to bringing us all together.

With All for Women, connecting Australian Women has always been my main aim. Helping and promoting fantastic Aussie Women is just a part of that.

There are some amazingly talented Australian Women bloggers out there, and I feel so lucky to call some of them friends, and love meeting new ones. I wanted a way that I could let everyone else out there know about them too. So with the help from the top list guru Meg the Top 50 Australian Women’s Blogs was born.

We are going to start out with 50, and see how we go from there. There are so many fabulous ladies there, I’m really proud to be among them, and showing them off. I am sure there are blogs that I have missed, so please send them through. If you have any suggestions or criticisms, let me know too.

I made a button to use on my own sites, but you are more than welcome to use them as well.

Backup your precious memories and files

These days the humble home PC is much more than just for entertainment. It contains so much important data, family photos, work or study documents, music collections and much more.

Yet how many of us actually backup and safe keep our data on a regular basis? We put it off till later, but never seem to get around to it. You could lose it all in an instant, and usually without warning. What about all your photos if you haven’t backed them up!

CD/DVD’s

These are the most common method of backing up. They are cheap and easy, and can be a great way to safe keep your files, as long as you actually remember that is. If you take good care of the discs, and store them properly they can last up to 40yrs. Try to buy a good quality disc. Make sure that you check to make sure your files have been saved properly after you have burnt them.

While this is a good method of saving your important data, it isn’t going to protect your files in the unfortunate event of a fire, flood or theft. It’s a good idea to store copies of your important discs in another location.

External Hard drive

External hard drives are a handy tool to back up your files and make them portable. They are a little more expensive, and can suffer the same risks as your internal hard drive like virus or disk failure.

Online Backups

I have been trialing this method myself over the last few weeks. Even after multiple drive failures and data lose, I have yet to learn my lesson. I always mean to get around to it, but never do.

Mozy automatically backs up your files and stores them in a secure, remote location. Mozy has a free option for personal users which allows you to backup up to 2gig of data. Or for $4.95 a month you can backup unlimited data.

Using it is super easy. You download a small application to your computer (it works on Windows and is in Beta for Mac) and it will take care of it for you. Your able to select which folders and files you wish to back up or you can choose to save everything. The application sits in your toolbar and will detect and save any changes you make to your files. If you have a drive failure, or loose data restoring your files is just as easy.

This is a great option for those that are a little lazy and forgetful. You will need a high speed broadband connection.

Now, you have no excuse for loosing your important files. Get into the habit now for making regular backups. Remember not everything is 100% fool proof so it can be best to try a few options to back up your really important data like your family snaps.

Dog days of summer bloggy giveaway

Over at Rocks in my dryer this week they are having the Dog days of summer giveaway. You should see this thing, it is freakin’ huge! Last I looked there were 320 different giveaways listed with some really great prizes. maybe the summer festivities can warm us poor southerns.

You don’t have to be a blogger to join in the fun, just visit the giveaways on the lists and see what is on offer. Be sure to check out each bloggers give away instructions, all their rules will be different.

Don’t think because you are outside the US you can’t enter, there will be bloggers from all over the world and many have said they are happy to have international entrants. So just check out the details before you enter.

Maybe your a blogger, and have a prize to giveaway, you could add yours to the humongous list too. Get in quick though, the linky closes soon.

Dog days of summer bloggy giveaway

6 fun online photo editing tools

This is something that my kids LOVE doing and has them entertained and laughing for hours. We take lots of digital photos in our house so there is never a shortage of pictures for them to play with. It can be just as entertaining for some adults as well.

You don’t need to be a whiz with expensive software to do some creative editing with your pictures. It can be fun and easy for the whole family to have a go at these 6 fun online photo editing tools.

Simpsonize Me - Another of the many promotional tools out there for the new Simpsons Movie. Simpsonize Me allows you to upload a photo of yourself and it will Simpsonise you.

This is me with the Simpson touch. Not sure if it is very accurate.

Pikipimp - Is a favorite for my kids. Once you have uploaded your picture you can set to work adding a huge range of items to pimp out your picture. Beards, hair styles, clothes, jewellery and tons of other stuff.

Comeeko now called Pikistrips, another tool from the makers of Pikipimp allows you to make your own comic strips from your photos. Make a photo strip of pictures from an event, or a fun comic strip.

Scrapblog- Scrapblogs allows anyone to be creative and put together their photos and videos to share with family and friends. Cheaper, easier and less messy than normal scrapbooking.

Picnik We have covered Picnik before, it is such a great tool, easy and you can do a lot with it.

Big huge labs- If you are flickr user, here are some fun tools and effects for you to add to your photos.

10 sites for finding great desktop wallpapers

Dressing your desktop can be an extension of yourself, and your creativity, or just a matter of anything has got to be better than the default!

It can be hard to find good quality desktop wallpapers. If you have a wide or large screen it can be even harder. There is nothing worse than a grainy, stretched out of shape picture. You will be right thought, if you are looking for naked women draped on cars, there are thousands of those.

Here is a list of 10 sites for finding great desktop wallpapers…

• WallpaperStock- Is my personal pick. They have some beautiful quality desktop wallpapers including a lot for wide screens. Super easy to find the size and category you are looking for.
• Pixelgirl presents- Lots of cute, fun and funky desktop wallpapers here..another long time fav of mine.
• flickr- You can do a search specifically for wallpapers or, just browse around the boat loads of mind blowing images there. You can check out the explore page to find some of the most recent awesome images. As long as you remember, you are just borrowing peoples pictures for private use only.
• Pimp my desk- Showcases some great art to pimp your desktop, with wallpapers, icons and styles.
• Socksoff- A great collection of links to sites with wallpapers, as well as their own gallery of quality wallpapers.
• InterfaceLIFT- Big range of styles and sizes here. They even have psp and ipod wallpaper.
• Caedes Desktop Backgrounds- Caedes is a community of artists that love making desktop wallpapers.
• Customize.org- Nearly 12,000 desktop wallpapers here, sure to find something you like.
• DeviantART- DeviantART is a fabulous community of artists, lots of wallpapers here as well as lots of other types of art.
• Wallpaper review- If, after all that you still haven’t found something to tickle your fancy, Try the Top 40 wallpaper sites at wallpaper review.

Be sure to check out and respect the terms of use for anything you download. Most wallpapers will be free for personal use only.

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