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Windows Live Sync

By Mark on Saturday, July 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Windows Live Sync is a part of the Windows Live Essentials Beta. The old Live Sync would not sync to Skydrive, the new version will. There is one little problem. With a Skydrive account you get 25 GB of storage yet you can only sync 2GB. This seems silly to me. Is Microsoft afraid Skydrive [...]

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Me Want Drobo

By Mark on Sunday, April 11th, 2010 | No Comments

My first three rules of computing are backup, backup and backup. You may have  heard this before? I use Carbonite a cloud backup solution that works very well but I really should have a local backup as well. 321 Backup Drobo looks like a great solution. Drobo is an external hardive based storage device that [...]

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One Is Not Good Enough

By Mark on Sunday, April 11th, 2010 | No Comments

I have a set I rules I follow when computing. The first three are backup, backup, and backup. This poor lady came to my computer users group with a external harddrive that was not functioning. I took a look at it. When I plugged it in to the power it started click loudly. I plugged [...]

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Cloud Storage Overview

By Mark on Monday, March 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

Here’s a list of services that will store store your files online. GMail- Send yourself important files as email attachment to a GMail account or use GMAil Drive to create a webased drive on your computer. >7GB/ FREE SkyDrive- 25GB of online Storage. FREE ADive- 50GB FREE Amazon S3- Unlimited storage for a very small [...]

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Skydrive

By Mark on Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Called “Skydrive” a part of Microsoft’s “Windows Live” it allows you to store and share up to 25GB of data (documents, photos and other media files). “Windows Live Photo Gallery” syncs automatically to Skydrive which is terrific. What I am a very disappointed by; there is no method to transfer other files by a desktop [...]

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Cloud Storage Rap Up

By Mark on Thursday, October 30th, 2008 | No Comments

My rule number 1 is: “If you don’t have two copies of a file on different devices you don’t have that file!” Here are some programs to help you to that end. Carbonite PC only Unlimited storage for one computer. Easy install! My Documents and Desktop set to backup automatically. Right-click to select other items [...]

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Host Podcast For Free

By Mark on Thursday, September 18th, 2008 | No Comments

Yes you can host your podcast (or any audio content) for the web) for free with Podserve (one of the Big In Japan. The other great thing about Podserve is that it create an RSS feed for you so you don’t have to figure out how to do that. I guess if your podcast got [...]

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