Last week Ivan Misner asked me to add some features to the BNI Podcast website, namely the Digg Digg and the Translate This Button plugins. Installing plugins is a simple enough task, as anyone who works with WordPress knows. Configuring them, however, can take some time. I determined that a horizontal layout was best for the Digg Digg sharing buttons given the fact that they showed up right … [Read more...]
Backup Bookmarks for February 3rd through February 22nd
These are my links for February 3rd through February 22nd: Snapshot Backup « WordPress Plugins - PopDrive - GoodSync Pro (for Mac) Review & Rating | PCMag.com - … [Read more...]
Computer History Museum’s New Exhibit Comes with a Warning
There’s a new exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, which the Ur-Guru and I enjoyed a visit to a few years ago. The exhibit is called “Revolution: the First 2000 Years of Computing.” What? Two thousand years? Yeah, you thought the Babbage Engine was old, but the Antikythera Mechanism dates back to the 2nd century BCE. The Computerworld article about the exhibit … [Read more...]
How Much is 295 exabytes?
http://www.vimeo.com/19779116 Our need for storage—and potential for backup bottlenecks—has grown 23% every year since 1986, according to a study by Martin Hilbert and Priscila Lopez. And we're at nowhere near the storage or information-processing capacity of nature. Hat tip to Computerworld. … [Read more...]
Chris Pirillo’s Tips on Cloning Your Hard Drive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt5IKSuKzDE … [Read more...]
(Belated) Review of Mozy 2.0 for Mac
This is a guest post by Stefan Didak, who tested Mozy 2.0 for Mac back in November on his new iMac and wrote about it in December. And yes, it is February now that I’m posting it, and have no one to blame but myself. After downloading Mozy 2.0 for Mac, I installed it on “Boron”, an Apple iMac 27 inch 2.93Ghz Quad Core i7 with 8GB RAM, 1TB HD, HD5750-1GB, and a 2TB Western Digital MyBook Studio … [Read more...]
Backup Bookmarks for December 19th through January 21st
These are my links for December 19th through January 21st: Indestructible Portable Storage | News & Opinion | PCMag.com - Synology DS1511+ does the 3TB-per-drive dance, backs up most of your neighborhood -- Engadget - Iomega eGo Desktop Hard Drive, Mac Edition (2TB) Review & Rating | PCMag.com - … [Read more...]
Bulletproof Hard Drive?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsaijC5jdP8 Revealed at CES 2011, ioSafe’s Rugged Portable hard drive is the answer to clumsiness, spilled coffee, and cats like mine who enjoy pushing things off the edge of tables for fun. Hat tip to Computerworld. … [Read more...]
Backup Bookmarks for December 7th through December 18th
These are my links for December 7th through December 18th: HP Portable External Hard Drive (1TB) Review & Rating | PCMag.com - Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 6 Review & Rating | PCMag.com - Hybrid hard drives finally come of age - … [Read more...]
Interview with Todd Esplin about Mozy 2.0 for Mac
Last Friday I had the opportunity to talk to Todd Esplin, principal product manager at Mozy, about the just-released Mozy 2.0 for Mac. As a PC user, I can’t review this product myself, but the Ur-Guru has recently started investing in Macs because he’s getting into iOS development, so he’s testing it out and will have a review for you soon. Meanwhile, I’ve waited long enough to publish the … [Read more...]
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