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Are you job hunting and having a hard time landing that perfect job? Give this post a read to see how digital has changed the job-hunting landscape and the different things you can do to help increase positive exposure to potential employers.

In part one of this tutorial, Automating Your Server Backups On Media Temple’s Grid-Server, I explained how to automate backups of your files on your grid-server. Unfortunately, not all your data was covered in those backups because it did not include your database. Now I will describe how you can utilize cron and mysqldump to automate database backups on the grid-server side.

Since running this blog on Media Temple’s grid-server, I was spoiled by the minimal effort required to backup my web stuff online thanks to the Data Backup utility available through the grid-server admin panel. Unfortunately, this utility was pulled over a month ago and I always want a backup to revert to in case an upgrade of WordPress or some other installation goes wrong. In this post I outline how to automate backups using rsync and cron.

In continuation of sharing the knowledge I’ve learnt at the Adobe Creative License Tour, here is a tutorial for efficiently fixing those photos which have specks on them due to dust on the lens. The tool you will need to execute this is Adobe Bridge CS3.

I think most users tend to ignore Bridge, a multimedia oriented file manager Adobe typically packages in its Creative Suites since CS2. I thought Bridge CS2 was just a glorified Finder…that was until its use was demonstrated at the Creative License Tour. In its latest version, it has been vastly improved and can be much more useful than using the Finder at times. Bridge CS3 even packs some powerful features, similar to Leopard’s new Finder that many Mac users have been drooling over.

Yesterday I went to a BBQ at Bowness Park. It sounded like a fun event, so I brought along my Canon EOS 20D not knowing what to expect.

Throughout the day, I found these tips I’ve learned from various sources to be really really useful. These are also geared towards intermediate digital camera owners (break out of automatic mode if you haven’t done so already!)