Tag: Data
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How your mobile phone or tablet could save your life
Believe it or not, there are many ways your mobile smart phone could be used when you find yourself in the middle of an emergency situation, aside from the obvious — making a phone call for emergency assistance, I mean. The recent events in Japan and New Zealand have shown that when disaster strikes, getting the…
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Keeping your holiday photos safe
The holiday season is upon us, which means that we’ll be enjoying time spent with family and friends. Many of us will grab our handy camera-enabled data phones and snap priceless shots that we’ll want to share, and keep for posterit...
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Fat lady sings. Winners announced soon.
Thus endith my first blog contest. And a very cool ride it was. My good friends at Clickfree, a Canadian backup technology company, agreed to provide the prizes (Clickfree Transformer SE) for a blog contest challenging folks to provide there best (or worst I guess) backup horror story. I’ve received some rather good entries. Check out the…
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How to backup files across a network easily
Before I start, a friendly reminder that you only have a day left to enter the contest for a free Clickfree Transformer backup system. Tell me a backup horror story. It’s one thing to backup the files on your local computer and another to backup files stored on other computers on your network, or Network…
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Monthly Backups: Have you started yours?
Before I start, a friendly reminder that you only have 2.5 days left to enter the contest for a free Clickfree Transformer backup system. Tell me a backup horror story. One thing I like to do is, at the end of every month, verify that I’ve got a full backup of what I like to call…
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Spring’s on its way. Backup now — before you’re too busy.
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…
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Friday the 13th: Refuge in the backup
Ok, it’s a lousy title for a movie, but it is a great reminder to review and execute your data backup strategies, both at home and online. Why Friday the 13th? Simply, it’s a day-date combination that happens infrequently, almost ad-hoc. When it does occur, you can easily plan to take time out to perform your…