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Is there a way for me to effectively back up my Google Drive contents locally?

Is there is a way for me to copy/back up me Google Drive contents to my local machine? Ideally, the solution would have these features (in order of priority): Runs on Linux in a headless ...
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google-map linux rotate

I am running Ubuntu, firefox. I want to rotate maps I get from google; I look at previous answers to this question and they refer to a green "lab" icon, which I lack. Can I rotate under linux ? How ?
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Web site archive of open source projects'/Linux mailing lists offering listing mails by subject?

I hope it is the right SE to ask. There are sites like gmane.org, mark.info and markmail.org where you can browse mailing lists of various open source projects and Linux distributions. Which is pretty ...
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Linux terminal API for Trello?

I'd like to be able to post to and get information from a Linux command line (and therefore be able to write little bash scripts to work with projects) similar to gcalcli for Google Calendar. Is ...
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Can you speed up dropbox by replacing large collections of files with disk images?

I (and lots of people where I work) use dropbox and keep our work source directories in dropbox. These directories contain close to 20k small files, and we'll typically have many of them hanging ...
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using Yahoo Messenger to send SMS

When using Yahoo Messenger to send SMS, I get: Sorry, but Yahoo! Messenger is currently unavailable. Please try again later. I receive this error message after step three below: To send SMS ...
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Is it possible to retrieve tweets older than 9 days via JSON?

This answer made me wonder if there is a way to retrieve tweets older than 9 days. Maybe another parameter allows it or is there another page with the raw data? There used to be an XML timeline, but ...
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Trello .graphml attachement is considered a binary file by Firefox 15.0.1 on Linux

When downloading a .graphml file attachment from Trello, Firefox 15.0.1 on Linux does not allow me to open it with an application, instead it says it's a binary file. Is the problem with Trello, ...
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How did Firefox on the Linux side of my computer know my Facebook name had changed?

I have Windows 7 and Mint Linux on my computer. I had changed the e-mail address I use to log into Facebook (and I did this on Windows). The next time I logged into Linux it had the updated e-mail ...
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Cannot retrieve YouTube videos via File Descriptors

Recently YouTube seems to have made some changes to the way it's video player works. The videos don't seem to buffer completly. The parts that are playing and the parts that are close to it say ...
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Which is the best OS for developing social networking? [closed]

I want to develop a social networking. So which is the best OS for me? Thanks!
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Free Linux/Windows cloud desktop [closed]

Is there any free Linux/Windows cloud desktop web service (GUI preferred, but bash would also work)?
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batch download of pictures from picasaweb?

How can I batch download a bunch of pictures from picasaweb in Linux? I would like to be able to ask for a bunch of photos uploaded in a given time frame to be downloaded in a given directory.
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Bi-Directional Sync between Google Music and Banshee

Is there any way to sync Google Music, preferably including playlists, with Banshee on Ubtuntu 11.10? The Google Music agent appears to download purchased and free music, but it seems to only be a ...
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Is there an application that downloads whole wiki sites to be usable without the Internet? [closed]

I visit some wiki sites with tutorials and I don't always have an Internet connection. So I'm searching for any application working under Linux that downloads a whole site and rewrites links to be ...

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