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Backblaze Welcomes Backify Customers
While the drama between Backify and Livedrive seems to have ended with Backify finally closing its doors there is some good news to come out of all of this. Backblaze has come to the rescue of Backify users with a great offer. This is a great chance to save 10% on your initial purchase of…
Advisory Notice from Livedrive Regarding Backify.com
Got an interesting email this morning from Livedrive regarding one of their now former resellers, Backify. Backify made a splash roughly a month ago when they opened the doors and offered users 512GB of space for free. They promptly ended that promotion stating in another press release that they had 50,000 users signup. At that…
CrashPlan+ Gift Subscriptions
CrashPlan has begun offering gift subscriptions for CrashPlan+ just in time for gift giving this Christmas. Them and Backblaze are the only two services I know that offer the ability to purchase gift subscriptions of their services. If you click though to the CrashPlan website you will also be able to take advantage of a…
Dropbox’s Roadmap Sounds Like Bitcasa
When you think about Dropbox your first thought is probably that special folder on your computer where you save things that you want to have access too on all your devices. While this might be a great advancement for many of us it is actually a pretty limited feature. You only get access to the…
Has Carbonite had a Privacy Breach?
Yesterday Richi Jennings posted an interesting article over at ComputerWorld outlining what appears to be a problem with Carbonite users getting spammed. In the article Mr. Jennings started getting spam email to the email address he used exclusively with Carbonite which lead him to believe either “Carbonite has either sold my personal details, or…
Carbonite Launches HomePlus and HomePremier Plans and New Features
Carbonite launched the new features that they talked about back in September. It is great to see Carbonite catch up to what some other services are already offering. To summarize the new features Carbonite is adding they are: Full system backup Backup and restore for external hard drives Automatic online backup for video files…
Review Dropbox
I get a lot, and I do mean A LOT of people leaving comments here on the Dropbox Review looking to increase their free Dropbox space by leaving their Dropbox Referral code. It got so bad at one point that I considered closing comments down on the Dropbox review to stop it. I was…
Test Page for Google GDrive?
TechCrunch had a post this morning with some interesting screenshots that I was still able to duplicate. It appears that searching Google for “Writely” shows a page in the Google search results partly with the title “test page for Platypus (GDrive)” Clicking through does not show much, just an error page for Google Docs.…
BeeCloud.eu 512GB Free Online Backup Solution
Note: Beecloud has since closed their doors as well. Another Livedrive reseller, BeeCloud, has released a news release today talking about their 512GB free online backup service. I can’t help but think they were a little jealous of Backify that came out on October 13 with the same offer, and then by October 18th…
Backblaze Version 2.0 Released
Backblaze just announced that version two of their backup software has been released. This release is mostly a release to improve performance of their client software but it offers some significant improvements with their service. While Backblaze offered unlimited storage they did have limits on file size (of 9GB) and what types of files would…
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