Blog.NicholasPatten.com

Step 1: Go to Backupify.com and under the "Basic" signup click "Sign Up Now" - This is free

Step 2: Put in your information and sign up, Backupify will send you an activation email, check your email and click the activate link.

Step 3: On Backupify.com Go to Settings, then scroll down until you see the Facebook option, then click "manage"

Step 4: Click the "Connect with Facebook" button and allow Backupify access to your information.

Step 5: It will then give you check box options of the following: Photos, Friends, Statuses, Links, Notes, Events - Check the boxes of what you'd like to save/backup, then hit save.

Step 6: Now click on the "Archives" tab at the top and then on the "Select A Service" drop down menu select "Facebook"

Step 7: It will now show you all of your information that it pulled from Facebook. This includes your metadata (who your friends are, etc)
Here is what mine looks like.

Now you have all of your information on Backupify.com and you can easily save the files you want to your computer if needed.

Keep in mind that now that you have backed up all your images, and friend list you can now go through Facebook and delete the images. But you will need to untag everyone in the pictures and delete the comments so that these images don't show up on your friends accounts if you delete your Facebook account. If you don't do this it will show up as "Your friend" tagged in Annonymous user's picture and the image will still show up even if you've deleted it.

I went through my Facebook account and "right-clicked" and "saved image as" for all of the images I wanted to make sure were backed up. At the same time I untagged and deleted all the comments.

As said before, I used Facebook because it "was" secure and private, this is not the case anymore. I strongly suggest you either use Facebook as a public site or not use it all.

Hope this helps. Let me know if there are other ways of doing this.

I have Google Alerts set up so anytime my name is mentioned it will email me with a link to where it's located. This morning I got a message saying my name was listed here. (Update, as soon as I was about done with this post they deleted their post - screen capture below). It's a complete copy of my previous post. This isn't that big of a deal and the tutorial is everywhere across the web now. I realized the person was so lazy that he/she didn't even bother to host their own images. Instead they were linking to my images. This is just pure laziness. If you're going to steal content, at least save the images to your own hosting, and take the person's name off your post. Or you can do the correct thing and email the original writer for permission, or do a partial bit about the post and then link to the original post (be the middle-man).

The end result is that I got to have a little fun. :)
I changed each image so that when read vertically it says the following:

"It's Not Cool
at all
to steal content
from other people.
If you're going to
steal content
at least host your own images.
P.S. - This could say worse things
thanks :)"

The lesson here is to create your own content and then share links to the content that is already created.

Below is the before and after.

After:

And another part of their website:

Recently I've had a few people email me and direct message me on twitter about how I added images to the right side of my posterous site.
So here is my attempt to explain how.

You will need the following:
1. Hosting (for the images to be displayed) - for example my image files are all running from nicholaspatten.com
2. Images already made to put on the side bar (the images I use are 150px wide)

Instructions:
1. Login to Posterous.com (I have highlighted the areas in blue that you will need to click)
2. Click Manage
3. Click "Your Account" under the Settings tab
4. Click "Your Profile"
5. In the "Your Bio" box (Highlighted in green) you will need to insert HTML code for each image. (Keep in mind you will need to have the image on your own hosting site. It's never smart to link directly to someone elses image because you never know how long that image is going to be live and/or they can change the image to be something completely different without you noticing)

Here is the HTML code for each image button/advertisement

a href="http://bit.ly/dp78WW" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.nicholaspatten.com/ads/imwithcoco.jpg"/></a

add < at the beginning and > at the end

Looks like:

You can also do this for your menu options like I have with my site (for example: Subscribe, Snowboard Designs, Free iPhone Wallpaper Designs, etc)

Every time I post something new I make sure to tag it so that it will show up when someone clicks the side bar links. If I create a new snowboard design, I will go to the new post and add the tag "snowboard design" to it. Not only is this good for SEO purposes but it also allows the viewer to get to the content faster.

Below is what the code looks like:

Hopefully that helped explain a little bit of how you can use simple HTML techniques to make your posterous page a little different from everyone elses. If there is a better way of doing this feel free to add a link in the comments.
Have any questions? Leave a comment.

Update: 04/04/2010
Related Article: Posterous Tip: How To Add Tags When Blogging by Email?

By the way, I'm with Coco :)