Last week, I looked at the apps chosen by CNet for the productivity section of the Webware 100. There were, however, 10 other sections – 9 categories of apps voted for as top in their class and an extra categories of apps chosen by the editors at CNet. This week, I…

It’s hard to maintain a secure, virus-free Windows set-up. The Internet is like a minefield, where a poorly protected computer can become infected by all sorts of virii or allow malicious individuals to tinker with your hard drive’s contents, or worse, your operating system itself. Don’t waste any time getting your Windows computer secured. You don’t…

Last week, I wrote on how bloggers could make the most effective use of the FriendFeed service. A question I heard from a few people went something like this: I’m not a blogger, but I want to centralize my content on the Internet. How do I do this? There are so many ways to manage information online…

Hard drives form the basis of our computing. The use of computers comes down to manipulating data, and the hard drive is, of course, where we store all our data; family albums, music, work documents, email, the list goes on. Most of the components in your computer are electronic devices. They don’t fail with time like…

Backing up your data is an essential part of digital life and protects you from losing important information. But when something goes wrong with one of your systems, it can mean you have to sift through thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of files for each project you’re involved with. Over the last few months, I set…

Too often people go through life with a tunnel vision approach of how they plan to go about their daily activities, long term goals and work related endeavors. Any well thought-out strategy is successful because the planners know that “the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry”. Life is always tossing in…

This post is part of the Trial By Fire Productivity series. “True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.” ~ Tom Robbins This wasn’t the entry I expected to post this week. Last week the death rattle of…

There are many pieces of software that are available to help you backup your hard drive. However in my opinion, the simplest and most customizable way of backing up your hard drive is to do so with a homemade script. I will show you how to create a very simple script that…

As Professional Organizers helping people organize their home offices and workspaces, here are the 7 biggest information-organizing mistakes we see in our work with clients– are you making these mistakes too? 1. Not knowing the difference between “Action” & “Reference” This concept is very important for beginning to get through your piles. You need to…

Email is important, especially they are business related and important to archive. You never want this happens to you. Chris Brogan has reminded me to backup my Gmail account by enabling and using POP access. The help document of enabling POP in Gmail. You may have done it before, but remember to take Chris’s…

Listible has a list of online services on file storage. The list currently stays at 93 sites – many for you to choose from. Most of them are free and easy to use. You can use them to send big files, or backup your documentations. Some services can be accessed from your web browser…

I’m just getting ready to do some backups of my system, and I was going to do a pile of DVDs as my backups, but then I realized just how much time that would take. Booooooring. So now I’m thinking that I’ll just go buy an external hard drive, shove everything over, and store it…

Engadget runs a really great howto article on backing up your blog. I must freely admit that, until reading this, I hadn’t considered this one bit. Somehow, I just thought my host would handle it. Maybe they do, maybe they don’t. Wouldn’t I feel cruddy if all my work just vanished one day? Bad things…

The Sitening blog has a tutorial on how to backup your Mac intelligently. It’s well considered and goes through steps, what to expect, and some of the tricks you might encounter along the way. Last week Jon wrote about the horrifying experience everyone eventually has to deal with – data loss. His wife’s hard drive…

It is always good to backup your stuff – especially to find some ways to backup your online bookmarks, because there aren’t any ways to retrieve it if the service is down, or gone. Backup del.icio.us has 11 ways to backup your bookmarks, such as: Export to HTML format Export to XML format Direct website-to-website del.icio.us bookmarks copy Automatic…