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Since I’ve done quite a few Mac posts lately, I thought I’d throw something out for my awesome Windows users (don’t worry Windows faithful, I have even more coming soon). A while ago Mozy released their version 2.0 software, but for Windows only (the Mac version will be out later in 2010).  I thought I’d [...]

According to the Mozy blog, the online backup company has just updated their Mac client. The biggest functionality that they have added is the ability to exclude types of files from your backup. Seems like pretty critical functionality for a backup client but hey, who am I to judge? Here’s a list of the enhancements [...]

Did you know that datacenters worldwide use up as much energy as Sweden? Neither did I, but it is one of the many things I learned from this awesome post by Mozy from a few weeks ago where they put together a bunch of stats to show how much data a petabyte actually is. Awesome! [...]

Photo by technicool Recently, Om Malik wrote a post called The Ugly Truth About Broadband: Upload Speeds. The article is about slow upload speeds in general – you can have the fastest download speeds in the world, but for many tasks that involve uploading, even our broadband is excruciatingly slow. One of the things Om [...]

Recently I came across this tweet from Ross L. Kodner and he brought up a good point – one of the benefits of an online backup is having your data safe and sound. If you live in a city that is prone to earthquakes, hurricanes, etc., it kind of defeats the purpose to have your [...]

In the last few weeks, two online backup services, HP Upline and Yahoo Briefcase have both announced that they are closing. While some have said that this is a sign that the online backup market is not sustainable, both Mozy and Carbonite have been clever and used it as an opportunity . Nate from Mozy [...]

Recently I posted about how to backup your ScanSnap profile settings if you are on the Mac. Here is how to do it on Windows. The ScanSnap settings are stored in C:\Documents and Settings\yourusername\Application Data\PFU\ScanSnap. Obviously, “yourusername” would be replaced with your Windows username. If you can’t see the “Application Data” folder, go up to [...]

We all know that staying up to date with software is generally important, but sometimes it can have unexpected side effects. Recently, a whole bunch of people started getting green checkmarks beside their document icons. For example, if you had a Word document, when you looked at it in Windows Explorer there would be a [...]

If anyone has been wanting to sign up for Mozy’s Unlimited Service, I have a coupon code for you. It’s for 10% off all annual and bi-annual signups. To get the discount, click here to go to the MozyHome Unlimited signup page, and then enter the coupon code OCTOBER (really sneaky). Of course, if you [...]

There has been a lot of debate lately about “living in the cloud” and whether to keep data and applications locally or stored out on the Internet with backup services like Mozy or Carbonite. Which is better for backing up your documents? Online Backup Pros: The data is (hopefully!) encrypted Depending on the service you [...]