January 20, 2011
Buying a new desktop or laptop computer is always good geeky fun. Although computers have generally accelerated beyond the level needed for mere “adequate” use, the performance wars haven’t calmed down in the slightest. New PCs also often have cool features like touchscreens. The only problem with buying a new PC ““ one that has [...]
January 16, 2011
In my third and final article about Amahi Home Server, I’m going to show you how to create new network shares to store files in, set up file-duplication for critical files using the Greyhole storage pool, and have a quick look at the other applications in the app store, such as Transmission for downloading torrents. [...]
January 13, 2011
After receiving a portable hard drive as a gift this Christmas, I became very excited to make full use of that hard drive as a way to back up and protect all of the important family photos, videos and research documents that I wouldn’t want to lose if my laptop hard drive ever failed on [...]
January 4, 2011
Did you lose a little faith in the cloud when you heard about Delicious shutting down (even though they say it will be sold now)? Do you use multiple services online to organise and express yourself? Do you need a backup of those things just in case? Well, I’m about to let you in on [...]
December 4, 2010
With an incredibly simple user interface and the ability to encrypt and backup your data to network drives, external drives, FTP/SSH servers and even Amazon S3 storage, Déjà Dup is the perfect Linux backup solution. Set up a secure, regularly-scheduled backup in minutes. It’s like Carbonite for Linux, except you can pick where your data [...]
November 23, 2010
If there’s only one thing that I learned from the (almost) sleepless nights when I tried to revoke my old WordPress blog (aside from the importance of backups), it would be the importance of the ability to easily restore those backups. The simple export-import method was not an option for me since my blog has [...]
November 11, 2010
Since everybody went a bit crazy about Facebook‘s iron grip on your personal data (myself included) the team have been hard at work improving their current system. Now it is possible to download every single bit of information you have put on Facebook, including pictures, status updates, events and messages. This is undoubtedly the control [...]
November 3, 2010
How often do you find yourself upgrading your laptop or computer, or reinstalling the OS on your current machine? Getting everything back exactly the way you had it can always prove to be a huge hassle. With Paragon Virtualization Manager 2010, migration of a Windows system becomes a simple and streamlined task. This week, we [...]
October 11, 2010
DVDs come with a shelf life. So, it’s a careful man who will take the effort to backup his painstakingly collected collection of DVD movie titles. If you are one, then WinX DVD Ripper Platinum for Windows is the tool for the job. WinX DVD Ripper Platinum extracts (rips) a DVD and converts it to [...]
October 7, 2010
Despite being an enthusiastic Twitter user, there are some things that irritate me about the service. One of them is how all of my tweets seem to fall down a huge black hole once you get to a certain point. There is no search function that allows you to search back through all of your [...]
