I have people often write to ask, “How can I keep my files safe from _________?” You can fill in the blank with one or more words. For instance, “total hard drive failure,” “accidental deletion,” “theft of my computer,” or one of the worst, “ransomware.” The word for today to combat those adversaries is, “Backup.”…
Google told the world on February 12 it will no longer support, wait are ready for it? If you said, "Picasa" you got it right (picasa.google.com). Now I will not yell too loudly about this one since I was not a big Picasa lover. It seemed a little convoluted to me; however, many people love(d)…
I had a reader give me upsetting news last week. They said that their computer failed to boot when they started it a few days before and they had a lot of personal and semi-business files there. What could they do to get them backup? They had taken it to a computer repair shop in…
Over three years ago I mentioned an excellent product named Dropbox. Dropbox is a “cloud” storage program which allows you to save all sorts of files on a site located on the web. It allows you to “sync” your files without you doing anything to your free 2 GB container of online storage. If you…
Welcome to the show for January 2014 and Happy New Year to you and yours! Below are links to the sites we talked about today and here is the podcast if you missed part of the show. Have fun looking around. Tech NewsTablet ownership in U.S. surges Thirty five percent of Americans own a tablet…
I have mentioned the importance of backing up your important electronic files before. It really is important if you intend to use those files in the future. Whether it is your previous tax returns, (done on your computer or the scanned version of your paper copies) emails or documents of any type you need to…
Over the past nine years I have talked about different items related to backing up your personal files or data files on your computer. At that time I wrote about where to back up your files. Three years ago I talked about what files you should regularly backup. From both of those columns I only…
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