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A few days ago I had a DirecTV HR23 box go belly-up. I awoke one morning to the smell of melted plastic. I didn't open the box, so I don't know what went wrong, but it was obviously something bad. Despite having no LED lights on the front panel there was still power - although it wouldn't even try to
Andy McCaskey invites Ian Collins of Clickfree into the booth to talk about ClickFree's automatic backup solution. I think all of us know that we're supposed to backup our hard drives and memory cards, but how many of us actually do it? Not many going by the number of times friends have phoned me up to see if I can
As smartphones get more powerful with more storage, the possibility of losing something important when your phone is misplaced or stolen, gets ever greater. And it's not really business documents that are important, it's your photos that are really irreplaceable. Iomega's new SuperHero Backup and Charger for iPhone and iPod Touch can help with this problem. It's a charging cradle
It may not be the latest and greatest, state-of-the-art in computer backup technology, but my solution for this very-necessary process is cheap and fairly easy to set up for the intermediate to advanced computer user. And it's been working flawlessly for the past 2 years. It starts with having an old desktop PC laying around. It doesn't have to be
What are you doing to back up your data? CD/DVDs, external hard drive, cloud backup, or nothing at all? We have all heard stories about someone losing their data because of fire, flood, or computer failure. Generally it's not that business proposal or the letter to Aunt Maude they were working on that they get upset about, but the loss
A nice item to have in your geek toolbox is a way to share files on the Internet. Sending large photos or videos through email is simply not possible so you need another way. There are a number of sites that allow you to do this, but there is one that I've been using that has some unique features. It's