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Have you ever been frozen in Carbonite? That might not be a bad thing, so long as Carbonite is the program you’ve installed to backup all your data to a virtual hard drive in the sky. Throw away the tape drives, man – it’s all about your Internet Backup options. Yes, Carbonite happens to be an up-and-coming application that lets you store an unlimited amount of data to another computer in the universe (in a set-it and forget-it fashion). Jason Dunn has been using it for a while, and his word is gold when it comes to software and Web services – so I trust Carbonite vicariously. Of course, I’m not recommending Carbonite for 100% of your backup needs – but it will make for a great backup of a backup (truly off-site). You can download a copy and try it yourself. It’s free for 15 days, but unlimited Internet storage for $5 a month!? Dude, you’d be insane not to use something like this to backup your data. And as a disclaimer, I get credit for download referrals (and you can sign up for their referral program, too).

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24 hours a day. I’ve always wanted one of these – in the PC space. This doesn’t do me any good, as I only own one Apple computer (though we have three iPods in this house). Plus, I don’t live anywhere near New York. If I knew anything about retail, and I weren’t that busy making a business out of the Internets, I would get a loan to open a 24-hour computer supply store. How many times have you needed a new hard drive at three in the morning and you just could NOT wait until 10am when the store opened? How many times has your video card blown right in the middle of looking at pictures of… well, how many times have you needed a piece of hardware and (a) nobody had it or (b) nobody was open when you needed it. The 24/7 technology store is coming – and I applaud Apple for being the first (at least, that I know of). I’d even pay a premium for products at a computer store that was open all the time. Like, at 10pm, the prices are marked up by 10% or something. I’d pay that when I needed something, easily.

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