Back 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...
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 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 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 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 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 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...
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Visiting 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 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...
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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,...
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