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Comcast 250GB Cap? Avoid Dropbox or Online Backup!
Recently, I “downgraded” my Comcast service from Business to Residential – largely because I got more speed for less money, and I wasn’t anticipating coming anywhere near the 250GB cap. I hate artificial ceilings, but that’s the price I pay for paying less of a price? I know I don’t knowingly download 250GB worth of [...]
What is the Best Way to Clone a Hard Drive?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed One of our Lockergnome users recently asked the community what the best method of cloning a hard drive is. For a Mac, you can use Carbon Copy Cloner, which is free and simple. You already know that performing regular backups can [...]
How do You Recover Data from a Bad Drive?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Over on Lockergnome, someone was wondering if the data on a corrupted drive is recoverable. The last thing you want to do if a drive is failing is to continue to write data to it. If there’s a question of data [...]
Mozy Getting Rid of Unlimited Backup Plans
For those of you who have long enjoyed having an unlimited amount of space within your Mozy account to back up your data are about to cry on your keyboard. As soon as your current subscription runs out, there will be no more “unlimited” plans to choose from. Instead, Mozy will start charging nearly six [...]
iSCSI RAID NAS – Three-in-One Hardware Heaven
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed This is my first SCSI device – ever. In all my years of owning computer equipment, I’ve never had a single SCSI device. I’ve had plenty of scurvy devices over the years since none of it ever had enough Vitamin C. [...]
Media Backup Dilemma
Eli writes (unedited): Hi Chris, OK, I consider myself a pretty tech-savvy guy. But I’ve recently come to this point where I feel like my faith in the digital age’s media revolution is verging on collapse. I’m hoping you may be the man to resolve my dilemma. I have around 250 gigs of data that [...]
Playing Tetris Eases Stress
It’s no secret that I am a Tetris fanatic. That is pretty much the only game I play and truly enjoy. Forget the fact that the game is addictive. Researchers at Oxford University have suggested that playing Tetris can assist in the treatment of post-traumatic stress. According to the research, playing Tetris after a shocking [...]
Losing Everything on Your Computer Would be a Disaster
When purchasing a hard drive, most people look at the storage available, the speed, the price, and the warranty. The manufacturer’s warranty will be the last thing on your mind if there is a major hard drive failure. To put it in very simple terms, everything on your hard drive could be inaccessible. Everything on [...]
Small Business Security
Among our readers are those individuals who run small businesses and have the responsibility for many computers. A common complaint that is heard is that it is very time consuming to protect and restore data for all those machines. To make it easier to manage workstations, we are recommending Acronis Backup & Recovery. “Built to [...]
What Does the Tech Future Hold?
While writing about the astronauts tweeting from space earlier tonight, I couldn’t help but think about other technology breakthroughs that could be coming sooner than we think. Even five years ago, we wouldn’t have dreamed that we’d have people out in space sending real-time messages to us here on Earth via an instant-messaging type of [...]
Data Backup Has Never Been This Simple
Experienced computer users harp on this, and we have for years. Do a backup of your data. Do the backups often. It just prevents so many disasters. Think for a minute and consider the dilemma in which you would find yourself if everything on the hard drive was gone. Absolutely everything can be inaccessible if [...]
Solar Power Battery Charger
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Aside from communicating with the opposite sex, what is a Geek’s greatest fear? I’d have to say it would be the fear of losing power! We are always worried about our batteries dying just when we need them most! Due to [...]
Online Backup Service Review
This review was sponsored by KeepVault. Editorial was completed without sponsor intervention. Hardware crashes can – and will – happen to you at some point. It’s inevitable, and often unpredictable. You could be thinking to yourself that you’re safe. After all, your computer is fairly new, right? Or perhaps it’s not “acting funny” in any [...]
Keep Your Computer in Tip-Top Shape
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed The folks at PC PitStop have been a tremendous help to our community during the time we’ve been doing live streaming. We contribute videos to their newsletters as often as possible, and they contribute to all of you via excellent and [...]
Backup Security and Synchronizing (even for Macs!)
You’ve seen us repeatedly say to back up your files. When someone has computer problems, one of the first questions that we ask is whether there is a backup of the important files. You would be surprised at how many people do not have a backup. And there is no reason for that lapse in [...]
