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Review: Carbonite Online Backup Service

Posted on April 29, 2024

Have you ever had a laptop stolen or suffered a hard drive crash?

If so, you already know that losing your precious photos, music, Word documents and other critical files is even worse than having to replace the hardware.

If you didn’t have a current backup, you most likely lost every scrap of your irreplaceable data. That’s why always having a current backup of your hard drive on hand is absolutely critical.

But did you know that just backing up your data onto an external hard drive isn’t enough?

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How to easily back up the photos on your smartphone

Posted on October 20, 2023

Do you have a large collection of irreplaceable photos stored on your phone?

Photos that you’d hate to lose if your phone should ever go belly-up, or get lost or stolen?

If so, there’s a very easy way to prevent losing your photos if something ever happens to your phone: Keep them backed up to the cloud!

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3 reasons why you need an external USB hard drive

Posted on August 14, 2023

Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.

External hard drives used to be expensive luxuries that transferred data between the PC and the drive at a relative snail’s pace.

But thankfully, that has all changed thanks to the proliferation of incredibly fast, yet very inexpensive external USB hard drives.

In fact, prices have now dropped to where you can pick one up starting at around $50.

I now believe that every computer user should own at least one external USB hard drive, for the following reasons:  [Read more…]

Why I use VaultPress to back up my WordPress blogs

Posted on July 26, 2023

Do you run a WordPress blog?

If so, you’ve probably spent a lot of time thinking about what would happen if your blog got hacked or your server’s hard drive crashed?

I know I have, and it isn’t a very pleasant thing to think about.

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How to quickly fix a WordPress blog that was broken by a ‘bad’ plugin

Posted on June 7, 2023

If you have a WordPress blog, chances are you will install a new plugin or update an existing one that “breaks” your blog at some point.

Trust me, it happens to most every blogger at one time or another.

I remember the first time it happened to me…

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