How To Defend Your Data From Webapp Closures 
How To Fix The Stupid Things You Do Online 
Five Best Online File Storage Services 
How To Upgrade To A New Android Phone And Take Everything With You 
How To Migrate To A Solid-State Drive Without Reinstalling Windows 
Turn An Old Computer Into A Networked Backup, Streaming Or Torrenting Machine With FreeNAS 
The web apps and services you use are often ephemeral. Your data could disappear in an instant due to an acquisition, failure, or even a domain seizure. Although the cloud offers many advantages, you never know when it may dissipate. Here’s how you can safeguard your data in case of a shutdown and select your web apps more frugally to mitigate the risk.
Mac: If you’re an avid bookmarker you likely have a few hundred great pages saved that you’d like to have access to no matter what computer or device you’re using. If you’re an Evernote user, Booknote Importer pulls your bookmarks from you browser and sets them as notes in Evernote so you have access to them no matter where you are.
Yesterday afternoon, Twitter announced that it had acquired blogging platform Posterous, and by all indications, it was mostly for the talent. If you’re a Posterous user, this means that your Posterous blog, called Posterous Spaces, is in limbo.
SD cards have started getting cheaper, and you can find some pretty huge cards at prices that seem worth the joy of never swapping out cards again. Here’s why that could be a bad idea.
Earlier this week, website owners with sites hosted at a service called Cornerstone got a big scare: The service appeared to be closing without notice, and their owner was nowhere to be found. Terrifying, right? Unless you back up your website regularly, that is. Here’s how to set up automated backups for your website so if worst came to worst, your data would remain safely in your hands.
Floods, bushfires, earthquakes, nuclear disasters — if those events in 2011 didn’t demonstrate the importance of having a good backup and disaster recovery solution, I don’t know what would. But a recent survey suggests that plenty of businesses still haven’t got their backup strategy sorted.
The internet can bring you a lot of joy, but it can also turn into a world of pain the moment you make one stupid mistake. Perhaps you’ve been feeding the trolls, using “password” as your password, or selling your soul for access to a “free” web app. Your dumb mistakes can come back to bite you in the arse if you aren’t careful. Here’s how you can save yourself from yourself online.
Chances are you have a backup regime in place to ensure you don’t lose crucial work information from your computer systems. But do you have a plan that includes where everyone will work in the event of a major emergency? One recent study suggests the answer is probably “no”.
A few months back, I was looking to migrate my aging Dell M1330 from its 160GB magnetic HDD to a Crucial M4 128GB SSD. I was reluctant to do a straightforward backup and clean install of Windows 7 onto the SSD, including reinstalling applications, if I could avoid it. So, I did some Google investigating and tried several open source options, before settling on Clonezilla. Sadly, after fluffing around for hours trying to configure a backup, Clonezilla would either hang or stop mid-way, a painful experience when backing up over 100GB of data. Little did I know there was a much easier way to get the job done.
Bushfire season has well and truly kicked off in Australia. The big technology lesson to remember? Make sure you’ve got a good backup strategy in place that includes both physical and offline options — while drive recovery techniques are impressive these days, bushfires represent one of the most challenging scenarios, since they can literally melt your hard drive.
