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How the Cloud Can Help Your Podcast
I spend a lot of time listening to and working on podcasts. It’s one of my favorite hobbies. It can be pretty difficult to know where to start and what tools to use, though. Without cloud storage and backup services, podcasting would be even more difficult! Here’s some ways to use cloud technologies to get…
Summer Carbonite Offer Code
I was doing a little web browsing today and took a minute to visit the Carbonite website and notice that they have a great summer offer available on personal plans. For a limited time it looks like you can save a nice 20% off all personal plans from Carbonite. It appears that this offer is…
4 Services to Transfer Files Between Cloud Storage Systems
At some point you may find yourself needing to transfer files between different cloud storage providers. There’s many reasons this might be: you’ve run out of space on one provider and need to move some files or maybe you just want to switch to another provider entirely. Moving your files from one provider to another…
Backing Up Bookmarks in Internet Explorer
Windows 10 is going to be shuttling in a new Microsoft experience for Windows users – and that includes those of you who use Internet Explorer. The future for the much-maligned browser is not entirely clear but Microsoft has revealed that they are working on a new browser for Windows 10. It’s best to back…
Backing Up Bookmarks in Safari
If you use a Mac, you have probably used Safari at some point and might even be using it now. If you want to make backups of your Safari bookmarks, you have a few more steps to go through than some other internet browsers, but it’s easy enough if you know where to go. …
Dropbox File Requests
While it might seem that everyone has a Dropbox account, that is not actually true and sometimes you need to collect files from people who do not have a Dropbox account or for a specific reason. Email has its limits and collecting larger files from many different people can be a nightmare with files occasionally…
Cloud Storage vs. Cloud Backup
Cloud storage and cloud backup are two different types of services, that are often confused with each other and they are really two different tools for different jobs. Part of the confusion comes from the fact that some cloud backup services, like IDrive, SpiderOak, SugarSync and even Carbonite, offer cloud storage as well as cloud…
IDrive Android Review
Google provides a basic way of backing up your Android device by keeping track of the apps you install, keeping your email and other data synced into the Google cloud and backing up your photos and videos to Google Photos. While Google does provide some basic protection for your mobile device data if you want…
Backing Up Bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox
Continuing on in my bookmarks backup series, this week I’m covering how to create backups of your bookmarks in Firefox. Luckily it is a very straightforward process and Firefox does some of the work for you. It automatically makes backups of your bookmarks and you can restore from any of the past 10 backups it…
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