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Back me up

22.Oct.06 | 1 Comment

[Introducing our first post from Peter!]
Now that I’ve acquired a fancy digital camera that emits JPEGs averaging 3-6MBs, my personal storage situation is getting a bit out of hand. I’ve given up the idea of backing up music files and honed in on finding a reliable solution to backing up my ~18GB digital photo [...]

Captive Bookmarks

30.Sep.06 | 4 Comments

I’m feeling a bit trapped with my current online bookmarking service, BlinkList. I have over 500 bookmarks there… and I see no way to get them out in a usable fashion. Distressing. Normally such things don’t bug me, but things have been a bit unstable there this past week and I began [...]

How-to: Using SyncToy to make a nightly mirror of My Documents

20.Sep.06 | 28 Comments

I promised a client recently that I’d help set her up to mirror her “My Documents” folder to an external USB drive with nightly updates. I then realized it might be helpful to other folks as well. I promise this is not a highly technical article.
The Goal: Setup a Windows XP machine to [...]

I have a dream…

19.Aug.06 | 1 Comment

Ok, here’s what I’m looking for. I’m sure it must exist, please feel free to leave comments!
Prelude
From time to time I take on side jobs that aren’t development related at all. Instead, they are the kind of job best described as “OMG our PC runs really really slow please make it better!” [...]

Mozy on over for some backups

01.Aug.06 | 11 Comments

(ok, worst title ever. I apologize)
Late last week I received an invite to try out Mozy, an online backup solution still in beta (natch). I had last looked at it, and other options, back in February when I trying to find something interesting to use for online backup and/or storage. [...]

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