One common argument is whether it is better to back up to an external hard drive, or better to use an online backup service. In fact, I wrote an offline vs. online backup post a while ago. What doesn’t get mentioned a lot is that a lot of people (myself included) do both. It looks […]
Continue readingA while ago we profiled a mail-in document service called Pixily. For those of you that don’t want the hassle of scanning things in and organizing them yourself, here is another one called Shoeboxed. Shoeboxed has a much tighter focus. It is going after those of us that have a lot of receipts and business […]
Continue readingWow, there was a shakeup in the online backup space today. Rackspace, a well-known web hosting provider has bought Jungle Disk, an online backup provider. The cloud backup space is heating up. Jungle Disk provides an interface to Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service, which makes this deal a little strange. Many people think that Rackspace […]
Continue readingElectronic books and electronic readers have been promised for a long time, but have never really taken off (though people who have the Amazon Kindle do love it. Looking at my recycling bin, one area that could really benefit from going digital is the newspaper. Sure you can read it online, but the whole point […]
Continue readingLifehacker has put together a pretty useful spreadsheet comparing a bunch of different online storage providers. Here’s our feature-by-feature comparison chart of the current roster of online storage services. (All of these services offer some form of security and privacy with uploaded files, along with, in most cases, the ability to share and/or collaborate on […]
Continue readingPhoto by Legozilla While the Fujitsu ScanSnap might be super-easy to use with only one button, there is a lot going under the hood to make it work that way. When you have problems like paper jams or more than one page getting pulled through, it might be time to replace (or at least clean) […]
Continue readingA new version of Carbonite (3.7) has been announced. Here is the PR-speak: “We spent a significant amount of time talking with customers for this upgrade of Carbonite,” said David Friend, founder and CEO of Carbonite. “We’ve always had the goal of Carbonite being the simplest online backup to use and we’ve been lauded for […]
Continue readingAs everyone knows, I am a pretty big fan of scanning in documents. But what to do you do if you don’t have a scanner, or don’t want the hassle of actually sitting there scanning stuff in? Pixily is a service that will take care of that for you. For documents that you already have […]
Continue readingIf 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 […]
Continue readingIf you are in the UK, I noticed today that GadgetSpeak is offering a Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 as their prize draw for the month of October. This month we’re really lucky to have Fujitsu sponsor the competition. They will be providing the lucky winner with one of their excellent ScanSnap S300 scanners. Looks like registering […]
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