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If you’re anything like me, your Favorite links list is a mile long. And if you’ve ever experienced a computer crash, you know losing those links (among other things) is very heartbreaking. While we should all be backing up our data as often as possible, how about an extra step in saving your links. You might be on the road and you can’t remember that website that you have saved at home. Here’s how to save them and have access to them at all times.

Step 1 -

Click on the File menu (in Internet Explorer 7 click the Add To Favorites button) then click Import and Export. You should see a window welcoming you to the Import and Export Wizard. Click Next, then select Export Favorites. Leave the main folder selected on the Export Favorites Source Folder screen and click Next.

Make sure Export to a File or Address is selected, then Browse to a location on your hard drive where you wish to store a copy of your Favorites list. Type a name for your backup, for example MyFavorites and click Save. Click Next, then Finish and a window should tell you the export was successful.

The Favorites backup file is saved as a web page file and it can also be opened in your browser like a normal web page by double-clicking it. It will appear as a simple-looking web page containing your Favorites links.  

Step 2 - Mail that file as an attachment to an e-mail address like yahoo or gmail. It’ll always be available to you wherever you have internet access. Just remember that your passwords won’t work on a different computer.

Do it now, before you forget!

Fellow VO blogger, Dave Courvoisier begins a new series of articles for Rain Recording on the state of the voiceover industry. To read the first in the series, click here.

Good job Dave. Good luck with future articles.

Thanks to Brian Haymond for pointing me to this 10 minute video by Dan Levine of Such A Voice, full of some useful tips for those trying to get a start in voiceovers. Also be sure to be available for their upcoming free voiceover tele-seminars on July 2nd and July 6th. Special guests include: Heather Costa, Robert Sciglimagli, Terry Daniel and Lisa Foster.

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How do you know when your new voiceover website might be working out? When Don LaFontaine becomes a member.

Congrats voiceoveruniverse.com for a great start to your site!

No words needed…enjoy!

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.