Gadget, Gizmos and Widgets
Are there Alternatives to Dropbox?
By Nerino Petro at 8 July, 2011, 4:39 pm
Dropbox has quickly become a widely used product and service with a good reputation at least up until recently. In the last few months, Dropox has made a number of misstatements and gaffes regarding who has access to your data and to what extent that Dropbox could make of it. From a lawyers perspective, Dropbox should not be used for confidential or other sensitive data unless it’s been encrypted prior to uploading to your Dropbox account.
Read More >>ioSafe debuts new Rugged Portable external drives at CES
By Nerino Petro at 6 January, 2011, 7:35 pm
I’m a big fan of ioSafe external hard drives for data backup and protection from fire, water or impact (go ahead, crush it with a tank). You can check out videos of their drives being torched, dunked, crushed by a tank at the links below the break. However, weighing in at 15lbs, no one would call their previous products portable. That’s all changed with the introduction of their ioSafe Rugged Portable line of drives at his years Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, NV..
Read More >>The Unofficial Guide to Dropbox Now Available
By Nerino Petro at 23 November, 2010, 12:03 pm
I’m a big fan of Dropbox and wrote about this terrific tool in my recent post Dropbox: Have you Got Yours? With consummate timing, the folks at Makeuseof.com posted an article entitled The First Unofficial Guide to Dropbox , making available for free download or online reading, Matt Smith’s Using the Magic Pocket: A Dropbox Manual ebook.
Read More >>Dropbox: Have you Got Yours?
By Nerino Petro at 22 November, 2010, 6:50 pm
If you haven’t signed up for a free Dropbox account, you should do so. Now. Immediately. Don’t Delay. Get’r Done. You get the idea and that’s how strongly I feel about this terrific tool that is part online storage, part file synchronization and part file sharing service.
Read More >>Windows 7 Resource Links that are useful
By Nerino Petro at 9 September, 2010, 9:12 pm
As part of that presentation, we thought it would be helpful to provide links to Windows 7 resources that covered things from pre-upgrade checklists to resources for using Windows 7 after installation. We have found these links to to be very helpful in making the switch to this terrific new operation system and hope that you will as well.
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