Back Up Your Contacts
My in-flight reading for last week’s trip to Cleveland was Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith. (Yes, oh FTC inspectors,...
View ArticlePutting Your Data in Danger
Would you entrust your data to a company called “Danger”? Microsoft and T-Mobile did. And it was your data, if you were a Sidekick user. The adventure began on October 10th. The headline in TechCrunch...
View ArticleVisiting Spare Backup
Last week while we were in Pasadena visiting family members (mine), the Ur-Guru and I drove out to Palm Desert to the corporate offices of Spare Backup, Inc. Long-time readers of this blog may remember...
View ArticleBack Up Your Contacts
My in-flight reading for last week’s trip to Cleveland was Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith. (Yes, oh FTC inspectors,...
View ArticlePutting Your Data in Danger
Would you entrust your data to a company called “Danger”? Microsoft and T-Mobile did. And it was your data, if you were a Sidekick user. The adventure began on October 10th. The headline in TechCrunch...
View ArticleVisiting Spare Backup
Last week while we were in Pasadena visiting family members (mine), the Ur-Guru and I drove out to Palm Desert to the corporate offices of Spare Backup, Inc. Long-time readers of this blog may remember...
View ArticleData Disasters: Did You Forget Your Mobile Workforce? FileSlinger™ Backup...
The Ur-Guru and I have just returned from a week of Extreme Tourism in Chicago. He took 28 GB of photos. Each night he copied them all from his camera’s 8 GB Compact Flash card onto the two portable...
View ArticleShaking Up Your Backups: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 07-20-07
The earthquake at much-too-early-AM today reminded me that it really might be a better idea to sleep with the computer under the bed than on top of it. On the other hand, I’d probably give myself a...
View ArticleDownloads, DRM, & Backups: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 02-09-07
I haven’t written about backing up downloads before, because it’s not something I do much of, myself. (Well, okay—I do keep copies of program install files.) After all, if I downloaded a file once, I...
View ArticleRAZR-Sharp Backups
Lest anyone think this has become the Maxtor backup reminder, I’m going to talk about something different today: cell phones. I’ve written about cell phone and PDA backup once or twice over the past...
View ArticleFileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 04-28-06: Back Up Sagaciously
Apologies for the late reminder message. On the fourth Friday of every month I go to the Bay Area Consultants Network meeting in San Rafael, and I have to leave here at 6:45 AM. I’m a morning person,...
View ArticleFileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 1-13-06: Cell Phone Backups, ca. 2006
One of this newsletter’s loyal readers suggested that I write something about the proliferation of mobile devices and how to back up the data we carry around with us as a result. I did actually include...
View ArticleBack up that cell phone!
Attention cell phone users! A recent survey conducted in the UK showed that 1 in 5 people use their cell phones as their only record of phone numbers. I’ve started to do it myself: why bother writing...
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