Currently I am working on a big job for a client. The client has a computer that is approximately three years old. I got a cry for help last week saying "it is really bad". This is how cases like this normally start off. By the time I get called they are in deep trouble. This ...
This week I made a change to an application that I use on a daily basis. I thought I would talk about the reasons I made that change and why it was a good change for me to give my readers some insights to the though processes I have when I look at changing ...
This week there were major rumblings in the blog world that one of the biggest blogging platforms had a security vulnerability. A lot of people would figure this was major commercial software – even Microsoft being involved. Believe it or not the product was not a Microsoft ...
The Cloud is becoming more and more used everyday. Their are companies starting up all the time and their are companies that close all the time. How many of us think to back up data we store in the cloud? My bet is not many of us. As far as I am concerned if you ...
In the old days we all backed up to floppy disks. The floppy disk has died in recent years. The two big factors in this happening were reliability and size of the files. Files are just way too large to fit on a floppy. People then started burning files on cd roms and later DVD drives. ...
Today I was reading Techcrunch online when I came across an interesting story. They reported that their is now a social networking backup site called cucku. This site lets you pair with a backup buddy to exchange backups with each other. What an interesting concept. I am going to test this out and see what comes ...
Many people have asked me over the years what I use for computer protection. Well I use a pile of free utilities plus one paid utility to do my yearly backups. The following is what I use: Virus Scanner - AVG Free Firewall - Zonealarm free. Spyware Scanners - Adaware/Spybot - both free. Spam Blocking - Gmail - all ,y ...
Backups are always something that every computer user should be doing. I have a couple of methods which I use depending on the types of files. For day to day files, I use a product called Carbonite. I will back up any files you specify with the default being the My Documents directory. The program backs ...
