startups, Software, IT Gregory T. Huang wrote: It could be the most exciting cloud-computing startup you’ve never heard of. It’s two guys in a room overlooking Lake Union, in a hard-to-spot building next to the Fremont Bridge. And it uses Amazon Web Services and other people’s comp...

Look, we feel your pain. There's about a gazillion options when it comes to portable hard drives, but the IDrive Portable actually does differentiate itself from the masses in one particularly useful way. Aside from being the "thinnest and lightest portable USB drive in its class," this 0.3 pound un...

LiveDrive is a free unlimited online storage services, it allows you to upload gigabytes of files onto their storage server. Unlike other premium service that charge you a hefty price for every gigabyte, LiveDrive provides unlimited storage space in exchange for advertisement. The benefits of using ...

The chronological Fallacy writes "In the aftermath of disclosures that Belkin employees paid users for good reviews on Amazon, David Pogue reports in the NYTimes that Carbonite has gone one better with 5-star reviews of its online backup welfare work written by its own employees. Pogue recounts how ...

Most virtual assistants I know are quite tech savvy. Some, like myself, are self-proclaimed techno-geeks. Why the preface? Well there's something new on (actually, above) the horizon that has my keen interest right now: cloud computing. Google the term and you'll be inundated with links to track dow...

Have you ever worried about your precious web site data, images, and database files not surviving a hacker attack, a power failure, a computer virus, or even a hardware failure? I certainly have been there. I recently lost some important files and digital images when a power outage occurred, and bas...

Filed under: Software, Productivity, Internet Tools, Security Update 3: Backblaze is looking into why some users were receiving errors when trying to install the application. They've temporarily shut-down the beta page to investigate. The first 300 users to sign-up will still receive invites. Go ahe...

Given today's holiday, I thought it might be appropriate to note my appreciation for some of the tools and strategies that have made my life easier in the last year. So without further ado -- since I know you have turkey and stuffing to get to -- here's my list of the five productivity tricks for wh...

Today’s Backup Reminder comes courtesy of Caroline Xerxes, who posted a comment to the Backup Blog asking us to cover BackUPMax. (Apparently there are two spellings of this: the personal version is BackUPMax and the business version is BackUPMAX.) She explained that she’d switched to them after ...

This week’s backup reminder comes to you from Howard Greenstein, one of the many who answered my call on HARO in July. Howard is a Social Media Strategist and President of the Harbrooke Group. He’s been blogging for more than 10 years—which means he used to do it all manually, back before ther...