Backup your stuff without thinking
Submitted by jason on Wed, 10/15/2008 - 19:05.
It happens when you least expect it....
Lets face it. Our lives are on our computers now. Email, photos, important documents. There are too many things that can go wrong on your computer, but there are too many cheap and easy ways to backup the files on your computer to have an excuse.
Online backup is the better because it is easy, cheap and off-site (flood, fire or electrical damage).
I encourage everyone to use a webmail service. All your emails are hosted on the provider servers and you never have to worry about backing up or switching computers. All the major providers give you more than enough space to store all of your email forever. Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Live Mail
Photos
For most people, photos are the most important thing they want to protect on their computers. They represent irreplaceable memories.
If you just want to backup photos we recommend buying space at your preferred photo sharing sites. Share and store at the same time.
Picasa Web (by Google ) buy extra storage
Flickr (by Yahoo!) - pay for unlimited storage
Documents (or everything)
For general online backup of all your files the two big dogs are Mozy and Carbonite. Both are really good at what they do. You just install their software on your PC or Mac, choose the folders to backup and it will back up those files several times a day if needed.
Mozy - 2GB Free, Unlimited $4.95/mo (I use the free version)
Carbonite - Unlimited $49/yr
If you click the link below you should be able to get a free account of 2.5GB instead of 2GB.
https://mozy.com/?ref=4K5FSF
Cool Link:
OK, so Google is the King of search. But I like the Quintura approach. They help you if you don’t quite know the right words to search for. They have a visual cloud of related words and terms that you can better define your search with. You can actually play around with this search engine and build a search interactively. Try it.
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