add to reddit! add to del.icio.us Good backup habits are essential to everyone who uses a computer with important information. It takes just a few accidental clicks of the mouse - or worse, one isolated hardware failure - and valuable data can be lost. One dilemma for backup users is often where to put their backups. Storing [...]

add to reddit! add to del.icio.us Almost everyone with an e-mail account has experienced unsolicited commercial e-mail, or ’spam’ - and everyone knows how irritating it can be. Every day we can read about new breakthroughs in anti-spam technology, or another successful prosecution against spam senders located in the United States and Europe. The most surprising thing [...]

add to reddit! add to del.icio.us There have always been scams. Get-rich-quick letters, pyramid schemes, fake competitions, charities that don’t exist. The Internet hasn’t increased the chance of falling prey to scammers - it just makes it easier for the scammers to get your attention. The tools available to senders of disreputable e-mail are extensive and [...]

add to reddit! add to del.icio.us Let’s get to the important part first - if you’ve just lost your data, skip past this introduction and go directly to our first tip, so you can start your rescue operation. If not, a few minutes spent now might help you a lot in the future. Pay special attention [...]

Fifteen years ago, increasing numbers of people had computers, but their important data consisted of small documents and perhaps a few basic programs. To backup all they needed was several blank floppy discs and a compression utility. Even a “power user” might find themselves with two megabytes of data to preserve. As we collect more and [...]

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