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Filling Out Forms (PDFs)

Jim wrote to me several weeks ago asking me a very good question, thanks, Jim! Someone sent him an email with an attached document which he needed to fill out and return. Jim, like me, did not want to print it, fill it out by hand, take a picture of it and send it back….

2019 Sites in Review, Part 1

Once again it has happened. A new year is starting and the 19th year of the "Double Click" column.  I want to thank each and every one of you for reading the approximately 900 articles I have written during these years.  Thanks for the emails I continue to receive.  Not only does it let me…

Backup and Keep Your Files Safe

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.”…

Do You Use Multiple Clouds?

Floyd wrote this week and asked an excellent question. He has several Cloud storage sites that he often uses.  Floyd has all the most popular ones; Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, and Amazon Drive.  Keep in mind there are many more out there. He wanted to know if there was any way he could log into…

Now You Can Delete That File

It hit me the other day that I have been remiss in sharing a great application with you.  I have been using it for well over five years and have never mentioned it.  So here we go today. If you have used a Windows PC regularly for more than a few weeks you have run…

Backing Up

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…

File Storage in the Clouds

I often receive questions about where you can save your documents in the cloud (online).  In the past I have written about Mesh.com and Google Docs.  However, I have found another one which, I believe is even better.  Over the past several months I have started to depend on Dropbox.com. With Dropbox you get 2GB…

Backup Software

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…