Comments on: What if you lost your social network?

By: rosshill

rosshill — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:42:49 +0000

Me too – but I at least back up the essentials now (my laptop with music and
photos, and my phone contact list).

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By: Samantha

Samantha — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:30:16 +0000

ugh, i'm horrible at backing stuff up. btw, i found your blog through 20SB's. :)

By: rosshill

rosshill — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:42:49 +0000

Me too – but I at least back up the essentials now (my laptop with music and
photos, and my phone contact list).

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By: Samantha

Samantha — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:30:16 +0000

ugh, i'm horrible at backing stuff up. btw, i found your blog through 20SB's. :)

By: willdonovan

willdonovan — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:23:05 +0000

My HTC Dream, Google Android phone syncs about every day when it does an update.

By: Peter Renshaw (bootload) 's status on Sunday, 08-Nov-09 01:27:49 UTC - Identi.ca

Peter Renshaw (bootload) 's status on Sunday, 08-Nov-09 01:27:49 UTC - Identi.ca — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:28:03 +0000

[...] "What if you lost your social network?" do really need all 250 phone numbers? #rosshill ~ http://www.rosshill.com.au/article/social-network/ [...]

By: bootload

bootload — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:24:42 +0000

“… I'm living this pain at the moment though, as my old phone (A Palm Treo 750) has my whole contact list for the last 6 years stuck on it, which I can't get off …”

try extracting the data via the simcard ~ http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-...

By: bootload

bootload — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:22:25 +0000

“… Imagine if you lost your phone. How long would it take you to reproduce the list? …”

It used to be best practice to ask for business cards then store them on your desk in a nice little container and cross referencing them in your Filofax diary.

I'd never owned a mobile till this year. I used to keep a backup in a small notebook till I lost that. My phone doesn't use anything but bluetooth and so the only way to get access to the data from the not very practical a) “memorise each phone number by heart” to the dumb b) read it off the screen or geeky c) “backup the simcard at regular intervals the hi-tech way” ~ http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-... but thats probably a bit beyond what most would tolerate.

In the end I just asked the hand full of people I do ring their phone number again. But for 250+ contacts it would be best use an online service to store them & print a couple of lists. But it does beg the question, do you really need to keep all 250 phone numbers in the first place?

By: rosshill

rosshill — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:24:52 +0000

How often do you back up your Google Contacts?

By: stevehopkins

stevehopkins — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:18:11 +0000

This is a REALLY important post - how many times have you seen people send those messages around on Facebook that they have lost their phone and need your number. Dangerous and time consuming AND debilitating.

I now have my contacts synced to my Google contacts - so every time I add a number to any source (phone, web) it all updates instantly.

I'm living this pain at the moment though, as my old phone (A Palm Treo 750) has my whole contact list for the last 6 years stuck on it, which I can't get off (except for manually copying every number). It could take me up to 60 hours to get all the names off...

#fail #neveragain