Tag: cloud
How To Backup Your Software
Owning a computer means you probably invested in commercial programs from major vendors. Just like backing up your computer and its operating system, it’s also important to backup your software. Now, let me clarify something: I am not referring to backing up installed programs in Windows, but the actual install files or installation discs. It is [...]
How to Map Amazon Cloud Drive to Windows as a Network Drive
The Amazon Cloud drive service is a free storage locker for music and other files which offers 5GB of storage for free. You can access the Amazon Cloud service from your browser, but if you are on a Windows notebook you can can map Amazon Cloud Drive as a Network Drive, giving it a drive [...]
How to Store and Share Large Files Online
We live in a connected world and we always want access to our most important information, anytime, anywhere. The buzz word lately is the cloud, which is a way of utilizing the Internet to store, manage and share information. Utilizing the cloud is still a new idea for many although we have dabbled with in [...]
MyDitto Review: Affordable Network Attached Storage That’s Simple To Use
MyDitto is a dead simple way to add network attached storage to your home network. The MyDitto system adds a hard drive to your home or office network and thanks to the included USB keys, can easily be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection — even away from home. If you don’t want to use the [...]
No More Google Cr-48 Netbook for Now
Google has announced that it has shipped the last of its Cr-48 netbooks, which run on the company’s Chrome OS and looks reminiscent of Apple’s black MacBook of yore. The Cr-48 was announced late last year and have been shipping to developers and pilot users. Google was delivered 64,000 units from Inventec, and now the [...]
Google Cloud Connect Syncs Office Docs to Cloud, Simplifies Collaboration
Working on an office document with a coworker or team member has traditionally been one of the most annoying and troublesome tasks for users involving numerous email attachments, merging of changes and time wasted finding the most recent version. While Google Docs has fixed this for many users, those who need to do work on [...]
Apple ‘Safe Deposit Box’ Locks Up Your Data in the Cloud
A new patent for an Apple service, which may tie in with the Cupertino, California Mac-maker’s existing online MobileMe subscription service, reveals plan for digital cloud-based sotrage for a ‘Safe Deposit Box.’ Discovered by Patentedly Apple, the service will allow users to store data, files, and information securely in the cloud and may either augment, [...]
A Streaming Only iPhone Raises Many Questions for End Users: Data Caps, Airplane Mode and Poor Signals
Earlier we reported that Apple is working on both a smaller iPhone – an iPhone Nano if you will - and some changes to their cloud based backup and storage service MobileMe making it free and offering possible streaming iTunes capabilities. A new report out of Cult of Mac says that the two stories go together [...]
Apple’s MobileMe to be Free, Possibly Sync iTunes
Apple’s MobileMe cloud syncing service for Mac OS X and iOS devices will soon be free, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Currently the service costs $99 a year. MobileMe offers the ability to backup and sync things like a calendar, contacts, and email between iOS devices and Mac computers. It also will [...]
Dolly Drive Review: Cloud Backup for Macs Acts More Like Beta Software
Dolly Drive is interesting new service which was announced at MacWorld 2011 that allows users to backup to the cloud using the Time Machine tool found on MacBooks. Unfortunately the folks at Dolly Drive probably should have waited a while to announce the service which feels like it is in need of more beta testing. In [...]
