When Jennifer Davis from thebluedoor invited me to review SocialSafe on this blog, I was faced with a small problem. SocialSafe is a program designed to back up your Facebook data, and I don’t use Facebook. (I object to their terms of service.) But I have readers who do use the social network, and I wanted to cover this product precisely because getting anything out of a walled garden like … [Read more...]
Fireproof Backups
Making your hard drives more secure seems to be the trendy thing to do these days. Within the past couple of months, I've been contacted about two similar products for protecting your external hard drives from fire and water—not to mention spilled coffee. I haven’t had the chance to test either product myself, so I can’t give you a firsthand account, but it seemed worth mentioning them in case … [Read more...]
A Reformed Windows User Takes on Time Machine
This week’s backup reminder comes courtesy of Noel Saw, organizer of the East Bay WordPress Meetup. Full disclosure: I was a hardcore PC (Windows) user for over 10 years. Ironically, I began my computing career with the black and white Macintosh SEs with a gigantic 20-meg hard drive in my journalism classes in high school. As I began my graphic design career, the companies I worked for were … [Read more...]
“Pirate” Backup Is Not for MP3 Downloads: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 09-05-08
Before he went home to redesign the world’s most famous home office, the Ur-Guru and I visited the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. In addition to watching a demonstration of Babbage’s Difference Engine #2 and sitting down to rest on a Cray supercomputer (and of course pointing out which of the early personal computers each of us had owned), we saw one of the first ever hard drives. It … [Read more...]
Saved by SuperDuper: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 08-22-08
This week’s (very late) backup reminder is one for the Mac users. It comes from Dave, the founder of EAR/Rational Music. Dave also writes his own Music Blog. I’m a SOHO owner and Mac user and I was saved by SuperDuper!, disk cloning software made by Shirt Pocket Software. (Not affiliated with them other than being a satisfied customer.) I have a separate building on my property from which I run … [Read more...]
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