If you’re a Carbonite online backup customer, they’ve released yet another way to get at your files when away from your computer. The company has released a Carbonite iPhone App (it works on iPod Touches as well). From the CEO of Carbonite: The Carbonite app gives me access to the backed up files from each […]
Continue readingBeing on the geekier side of the spectrum (as my wife is happy to remind me as I am hooking a Mac Mini up to our TV), I really like hearing about the inner workings of the software that we use. Too often things are dumbed down so much that they aren’t actually saying anything. […]
Continue readingOK, this has been out for quite a while. I realize that. However, I just had laser eye surgery and have been down for the count for a little while so you’ll have to cut me some slack here. I still want to mention this because Dropbox is one of my favorite services, and their […]
Continue readingIf you are a user of Amazon Web Services’ S3 storage service, you have probably come across CloudBerry Explorer, which is a tool for managing your S3 data. Well, now the team from that product have taken the next step and have a new product in Beta called CloudBerry Online Backup which, not surprisingly, acts […]
Continue readingMost people know that Carbonite is a good solution for backing up your PC or Mac. However, what a lot of people don’t know is that you can also access your backed-up files on the go. A while ago, Carbonite rolled out their new Remote File Access feature. To access it, go the Carbonite homepage. […]
Continue readingAs we all know, one issue with doing online backup is if you have a huge amount of data to upload or download, it can take a lonnnnnnnnng time to upload or download. Amazon has a clever solution to take care of this problem for you. You can ship them a hard drive and have […]
Continue readingOne company that I have been meaning to write about for quite some time is SpiderOak, which is an online backup and sync provider I have been hearing a lot of good things about. Cross Platform While other online backup providers have been Windows-only until just recently, SpiderOak has been cross platform right from the […]
Continue readingAccording 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 […]
Continue readingDid 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! […]
Continue readingPhoto 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 […]
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