I found this highly recommended NAS hard drive for backup and storage purposes. Check it out:
You can connect this drive to your router or switch on your home network and it will configure to a specific private IP address. Then you can use the massive 500GB drive to backup data, music, pictures or your entire computer! Very cool stuff. I recommend Acronis for your software solution as well. Enjoy!
A family member’s laptop recently crashed. This person didn’t have any backups at all. They had iTunes installed with a bunch of music that they lost due to the crash. Here’s how to get songs off your iPod if this happens to you:
1.) Enable your iPod for Disk Use – Connect your iPod and iTunes should open up. If you’re running the newest version of iTunes you’ll see an option for enabling disk use. Click it and OK the warning message. Then at the bottom right, click Apply. Alternatively you can right-click on your iPod in the menu on the left and click on iPod Options, you can also use to enable disk use.
2.) Now you can leave iTunes open or close it. Alternatively you can close iTunes, disconnect your iPod and then reconnect it for assurance. Once it’s connected open My Computer. On the Tools menu click Folder Options. On the View tab find the option for Show Hidden Files and Folders and select it. Apply the option and close out.
3.) You should be able to open up My Computer now and see your iPod listed as a disk. Could be something like “Joe’s IPOD (F:)“
4.) Once you’ve navigated to your iPod you’ll see a dimmed folder called “iPod_Control” open that. Click on the folder Music and you’ll see a bunch of folders like F00, F01, F02 etc. These folders contain all of your music files. Copy them to your hard drive and you should be all good.
5.) Once the files are on your hard drive, import them back into iTunes and you’ve got your music back!
Thanks for CNET for this.
This is kind of interesting. I’ve been speaking with some colleagues and I can’t see how Microsoft will survive the onslaught of rage that will inevitably come at them if they do not release a service pack for Vista… Check it.
Intel CEO Gives Away Service Pack Date
With any luck, this article is true and MS is indeed planning on an update to the OS. Don’t get me wrong, I love Vista – but it needs some work.
I recently purchased a great backup solution for my computer. It’s from Acronis and it’s the True Image 10.0 Home Edition software backup solution.
This software is similar to products you may already be familiar with like Norton Ghost. However I’ve used Norton Ghost v12 and I didn’t like it. The interface is not user friendly and it does not function like a great backup solution should.
Acronis on the other hand has released version 10 of their True Image software. It has some great features that make it really stand out. It also supports a variety of file systems from Fat to NTFS to Ext3. Very cool. The suite costs $50.00 from their website and offers some really nice benefits if you register your product including account management and notification of upgrades. It also activates your support for the product.
So if you need a great way to backup your data and image your hard drive in case of failure, Acronis is the way to go.
