The New ScreenSavers

The New Screen Savers is a variety show for tech on the TWiT network. Viewers get live tech help, interesting guests, insights into the latest innovations, products and trends, plus lots of fun things thrown in, too. There will also be special guest co-host appearances from Patrick Norton, Kate Botello, Kevin Rose, and more. The…

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DD-WRT Router Firmware

DD-WRT is a Linux-based alternative OpenSource firmware suitable for a great variety of WLAN routers and embedded systems. Originally intended for the Linksys WRT-64G (the popular blue router) DD-WRT has been modified to be used with many popular low-cost routers. The DD-WRT firmware adds professional  functionality like: Access Restristions Ad Blocking, Client Bridge, Client Mode,…

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Microsoft Everywhere Announced At Build

This week at Microsoft’s “Build” conference we found out at least part of their new strategy is making their products available on every platform. Not just on Windows and Windows Phones but also Mac OS10, iOS, Google Chrome and the Chrome OS, Android as well as any web-browser. Not only will Microsoft apps be available on any…

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FIDO and the Yubikey U2F

The FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance is an industry consortium launched in February 2013 to address the lack of interoperability among strong authentication devices and the problems users face creating and remembering multiple usernames and passwords. PayPal and Lenovo were among the founders. The FIDO U2F Security Key by Yubico is a specially designed YubiKey,…

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Backing Up to USB Media

Flash Drives: Probably the most common  back-up media are USB flash-drives or thumb-drives. These are small, convenient, reliable and very inexpensive. Copy all of your files to a thumb-drive and your backed up. Sizes range from 2 GB to 256 GB. Prices begin at about $5 and up. External Hard Drives: If you need more storage space…

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Cloning Your System

What is cloning? One popular method of backing up is cloning. In cloning you make a copy of the entire hard drive or partition. This method is great for quick restore of your system but it is not very useful for the everyday task of backing up your files. Acronis Acronis True Image is a…

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Automatic Cloud Backup Solutions

Carbonite and CrashPlan are in a class of online backup solutions that are unlike Google Drive or Dropbox. With these services you pay one low price for unlimited backup of one computer. The unlike Google Drive the backed up files are not supposed to be easily accessible online. Carbonite And CrashPlan are not for file-sharing either. They are…

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Free Online Storage

Today there are lots of online storage sites. Many of them free for some small amount of space which can very from 2 to 30 gigabytes. If you are saving only MS Word documents and a few pictures, these amounts of space could be adequate. Which service and how much space?: Dropbox gives you 2 gigabytes…

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Two Ways to Backup with CrashPlan

CrashPlan is an online backup online data backup service with a difference. You can use the CrashPlan software for free to send an encrypted backup to a friend’s computer and you never have to buy the CrashPlan service ever. Most people go ahead and purchase the service rather than go through the has of setting…

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3-2-1 Backup Strategy

The purpose of a backup is to make sure that your digital data can survive any of the hazards that await. Fire, flood, burglaries, hard-drive failure and disasters of all kinds are no problem if you follow some basic rules. With the 3-2-1 Backup Strategy you always have at least 3 copies of your data: One…

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