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T-Mobile Wants to Slow You Down with Caps and Throttling
Beginning October 16th, those of you with T-Mobile who use more than 5GB of data per month are going to be quite angry. As of that date, the company will begin reducing data speeds after you reach 5GB of usage in a single billing cycle. The previous cap was 10GB per month. The company claims [...]
Et Tu, Cloud? Caveat Clickor!
For the longest time, we knew where our data existed – it existed on our computers, typically on a hard drive or potentially a floppy disk. So now when we create files, let’s say on a Web service like Google Docs, for example, we may never actually know where that file sits. We know we [...]
Simple Backups Can Save You Time and Money
It should be a simple rule that every computer user should follow: back up your data. It is not a matter of “if” your computer will give you problems. It is a matter of “when.” This applies to everyone. Students, for example, should back up regularly. Your whole academic year, with notes, papers, presentation, lecture [...]
What’s the Most Secure USB Drive?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed No two flash drives are built the same. This new 2GB flash drive I have has software and hardware security built right into it. When you plug it in the first time, you set up a password which will automatically encrypt [...]
Computer Backup
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I have talked many times in the past about how critical it is to regularly back up your computer data. Here are some excellent tips sent in by a community member, to help you decide what to back up, when to [...]
Do You Have a Data Backup Crash Plan?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I have reviewed online backup services before, but I never bit the bullet and signed up for any of them. I didn’t want to pay to access my data, and I didn’t like not knowing where exactly the “remote location” is [...]
Pirillo’s Picks for 02/21/2007
I send my picks to 140,000 subscribers every day – join them by sending an email to picks@lockergnome.com. If you blog and encourage others to subscribe to the list, your site will be placed in the queue to be featured in an upcoming Pirillo’s Picks! [OOPS] Microsoft apologises for serving malware (tags: security, Microsoft, apology, [...]
