I recently listened to an episode of the great Mac Power Users podcast where Katie spoke about security and it got me thinking. I use 1Password to manage all my passwords and all of my passwords are very strong (randomly generated from 1Password) so I am not overly concerned about those, except one (Apple). I am, however, concerned about the number of sites that have my crucial information, such as PayPal, Amazon and Apple. What if one of those gets hacked? The great thing about those...

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Like I said, I got all my past post extracted and into Markdown and all archived in Dropbox so I am good that way. Little hitch with posting; because MarsEdit uses the old API to add posts, every post is missing it's categories in my archive. To fix I have to save every post twice. Not ideal but not terrible. To solve this I will either have to find another way to write in Markdown and have that posted automatically or wait until the developer updates MarsEdit to use the correct APIs....

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Re: http://thedalzells.org/2012/11/making-my-data-movable/ When we last saw our intrepid explorer, he was looking for blogging nirvana…writing in Markdown and every post backed up automatically. We are happy to report that after much hair pulling and cursing, he has achieved his lofty goals! Every post is created in Markdown in MarsEdit. He had to install a Wordpress Markdown plugin and then write his own plugin to copy each post into his Dropbox folder, but he got the job down. He...

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Now that I have my blog posts stored in Markdown, I need to automate backup of those posts so that I always have a current copy. I am hoping to find an existing plugin/service that does this but so far I haven't found anything perfect. IFTTT almost does it but it won't find my WP installation properly. There are also several WP backup plugins that back up to Dropbox but that won't work either. So I either have to write my own WP plugin (which I don't want to do) or find a plugin that...

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