If you use Gmail for your email needs, you may want to backup your data. If your like me, you have a lot of information saved on Google servers, and I would be in a hard place should they ever vanish. If you are not concerned about this possibility, however remote, you should still consider backing up your data.

A very good solution is Gmail Backup. The application locally backups your emails in individual .eml files, sorted in folders based on month and year. You specify the backup date range, and the rest is simple. You need to enable IMAP support in your GMail settings, and that’s it.

Good stuff.

I find the stats feature in reader interesting. Of the blogs you follow via RSS, which are the most popular? Of the ones I have on my reader, here are the top 5 and bottom 5.

Top 5 (subscribers)

• Engadget – 1,180,191
• Daily KOS – 481,201
• Slashdot – 316,028
• Life Hacker – 212,980
• Hack a Day – 72,763

Bottom 5 (subscribers)

• This Blog – 1
• SHA1 – 3
• UCS – 3
• Prime Grid – 16
• Action Alerts – 17

Good to see I am the best at something here.  ;-)