With my testing of free software storage solutions I’ve been looking hard at how much data a small business uses. I’m helping out a small tradesman who has two desktop PCs, a laptop and two networked printers. Actual business files…
Longest name ever for a one trick app. Microsoft developed the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool to allow people to write an ISO file to a bootable medium: DVD or USB storage. When Windows 7 launched a lot of…
Backupify is a new online service that backs up your online services and is free to sign up until January 31st 2010. They provide backup services built on Amazon’s Web Services and supports a range of services including WordPress, Blogger,…
FreeNAS seems to be making a lot of news and tech sites lately; it’s a free network attached storage operating system so you can make your own NAS box out of whatever hardware you want. I haven’t been interested because…
I was installing an LCD monitor on a Windows XP PC and the user thought the native resolution of 1650×1080 was too small so I ended up lowering it to 1280×800. The text was jagged and horrible: very hard on…
If you don’t back up your files at some point you will lose them. We rely on mechanical storage to keep our information and inevitably it will fail. People used to say it didn’t matter since it was only a…
Microsoft is giving users 25 GB of online storage space for free, and has been for some time. It’s called SkyDrive and is part of the Microsoft Live group of online resources. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to get the exposure…
A friend of mine bought a used Mac Mini and then promptly had issues with the hardware and so it migrated to my storage closet. It languished there for a while but I needed a small PC for my wife’s…