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A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
If I had it my way, the $10 surge protectors you get at Wal-Mart would have their name changed to "power strips". I don't think they stand a chance at protecting any kind of real surge. They do, however, do a great job of turning one electrical outlet into 6 or 8 outlets. Don't read this the wrong way. Not all surge protectors are junk. This is definitely one of those areas where you get what you pay for. I just don't think $10 cuts it for quality protection. In fact, if you truly want good protection, I recommend an… Continue reading...
A few weeks ago I explained here on my blog how I recovered 100% of my data after my hard drive crashed. Part of that process involved replacing the dead hard drive with a brand new hard drive. Some of you might not know this but you can't just put a brand new hard drive into a computer and expect it to boot up just like it did with the old hard drive. There is special software on the computer, referred to as the operating system, that must exist for the computer to boot properly. Furthermore, there are all kinds… Continue reading...
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Ever since I put together Noobie's 100 iPhone Tips eCourse, I've been really spoiled by tip #42: iPhone Tip #42: Jump back to the top When viewing a long web page in Safari, it often takes a lot of swipes to get back to the top of the page. Next time, try this instead. Touch the bar across the top of the screen (where the clock is) and watch your iPhone instantly scroll back to the top of the page. This tip works in most of your apps too! We hope you are enjoying Noobie's 100 iPhone Tips! What about… Continue reading...
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So now that the whole mess of my hard drive crashing is behind me, I'm curious to know about your backup habits. Do you backup your computer? If so, how? By using a USB hard drive or flash drive? CDs or DVDs? Or do you use a backup service like Carbonite like I do?
Or do you throw caution to the wind and ignore backups altogether?
I've created a new poll to gather your answers. Will you take a second to vote in the poll below?
How do you back up your computer?customer surveys
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Last week I explained why Carbonite couldn't come to my rescue after my hard drive crashed. At the end of the post, I promised to explain how I still managed to get 100% of my data back. So here goes... For starters, and to be fair to Carbonite, most (but not all) of the data I restored came from my online Carbonite backup. This included the majority of my digital picture collection, my music collection and my older Word, Excel and other documents. The next round of data came from a backup set on my HP Media Server. This backup… Continue reading...
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