Instagram: Love It or Leave It

  • S05E31
  • April 24, 2012

Robbie and Rachel show you how to download all your Instagram pictures so you can close your account, or just to back them up.

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This episode is sponsored in part by: Eco Alkalines, Garden Gate Farms and Cordery Electric.

Topics Covered:

  • Robbie Ferguson and Rachel Xu present live from the Category5 studios in Barrie, Ontario.
  • Send in your postcards.
  • Wishing Geek Gamer Weekly congratulations on achieving 200 episodes.
  • {play 4:19}Viewer Questions
  • Viewer Question: How did you hide your IP address in a recent show?
  • Using anonymous proxies to browse the web, such as hidemyass.com or freeproxyserver.ca.
  • Viewer Comment: Ultrasurf is a popular proxy.
  • Viewer Comment: Proxies are generally for paranoid people or those doing something they shouldn't be online.
  • {play 10:32}Contest - Win a year supply of Eco Alkalines batteries!
  • Viewer Question: How are rechargeable batteries vs. Eco Alkalines?
  • Viewer Question: I'm trying to upgrade my Wirecast show to 16:9 from 4:3 but my background images appear to be poor quality no matter what I try. Is there a graphic size that you'd recommend?
  • Creating images that match up to 1080p 16:9, losslessly.
  • Viewer Question: What do you think of the idea of plugging some thumb drives into a Pogoplug and sending it to a family member, telling them to plug it in to their Internet? Would that be good, cheap access to cloud storage?
  • Why you'd want to label your flash drives on a Pogoplug.
  • {play 30:10}Top Stories from the Category5.TV Newsroom.
  • {play 35:25}Feature: Instagram is now owned by Facebook. Love it or leave it, Robbie shows you how to use Instaport to download all your pictures from Instagram so you have a backup.
  • Viewer Comment: You should have Klingon subtitles.
  • {play 43:03}How to tell if if a web site is down for everyone, or just me using downforeveryoneorjustme.com and sending the future you an email from the past using futureme.org.
  • {play 47:45}Tineye vs. Google's reverse image search.
  • Using Tineye and Google's reverse image search to find similar images, different resolutions and other web sites that have the same picture on it.
  • Viewer Question: What happens if you search for yourself on Google Image Search?
  • {play 53:15}Viewer Questions.
  • Viewer Question: I am trying to bitcoin mine from a group of computers, but can't connect by SSH to my Ubuntu computer. I've tried changing UFW settings and still can't get connected. What can I do?
  • Connecting to localhost via SSH to see if SSH is running.
  • Updating ufw rules to allow SSH connections.
  • Installing openssh-server to allow SSH connections to your Linux computer.
  • Shout out to Brianna!

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