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In the life

Spring’s on its way. Backup now — before you’re too busy.

March 12, 2010
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I’ve writ­ten a lot about back­ing up your data over the years. But even though backups are import­ant, some­how they’re always 2nd or 3rd on the pri­or­ity list. ‘Some­thing to do when I get time’. And as Spring approaches, time is one thing that there’s going to be less of as pri­or­it­ies shift from inside […]

Tagged as: 13th, Backup, Backups, ClickFree, contest, Data, hardware, Murphy, process, safety, software, Spring, Time, Transformer

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Finally. If it’s Friday then it’s time for a video.

March 12, 2010
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Earlier this week OK Go par­ted ways with their record label in order to have more cre­at­ive and pub­lish­ing con­trol over their music videos. Short ver­sion — EMI was not let­ting their videos be pub­lished through You­Tube. Longer ver­sion and over­view at Fast­Com­pany.
Since that rela­tion­ship has ended, the fol­low­ing link to the You­Tube video of […]

Tagged as: DRM, Entertainment, Friday, Marketing, Music, OK Go, publishing, Video, YouTube

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How to keep your travel communications costs down, easily.

March 9, 2010

Whether you’re on vaca­tion or trav­el­ling for work, tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions costs are a pain, and can really impact your the cost of your travel. Recently I’ve star­ted using two tools that let me call home or the office, talk as long as I want, and not break the bank. …more

This post is an excerpt from […]

Tagged as: Communications, free, phone, skype, telecommunications, Travel, voice chat

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The view out my window

March 8, 2010

Daily I work in a cube, except for today. As you can see, I’m in my ‘away’ office, yet still connected.

And yes, I am work­ing. Through the won­ders of tech­no­logy, I’m crank­ing out the copy, send­ing the email, edit­ing the text and pho­tos.
This is Life­style Tech­no­logy at work. Wifi enables me to be mobile / […]

Tagged as: Image, online, Photography, Travel, Working

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Write a comment, win a prize!

March 1, 2010

I’ve been a fan of Click­free backup sys­tems for a while now. Drop­dead simple and effect­ive for most home usage. Well now the kind folks at Click­free have given me the oppor­tun­ity to share the love, so to speak, in the form of a con­test, my first, in fact.
All the gory details are here, but the […]

Tagged as: Backup, Blog Contest, ClickFree, Data Loss, Entertainment, free, Lifestyle Technology, Technology, Writing

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Upgrading from Windows 7 RC to Retail — easily!

February 28, 2010
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Well, being the cut­ting edge kinda guy that I am, I had the Win­dows 7 release can­did­ate (RC) on my sys­tem from the first day it was released. Of course, that means that I was enjoy­ing all the Win­dows 7 good­ness on my sys­tem, with the know­ledge that I’d even­tu­ally have to upgrade to the […]

Tagged as: 7100, Microsoft, RC, Retial, Upgrading, Win7, Windows, Windows 7

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