Backing Up

Lately I have been backing up a lot cause of what happen to my old computers. I use to back them up to a CD every 2 weeks and I hade records of back up CD’s with my stuff on it that I thought were important. But I started to run out of room for all my back ups so I stopped doing it I thought nothing will happen and one day it did do to my dumbness. Everything on that computer I lost pics, vids, home work, notes, etc. So I had to get back what I could lucky for me most of my pic’s were on my space so all I had to do was download them back.

So a few months have past now and well I really haven’t backed up much. Except for lately I have. The other day at school I found the use fullness of windows sky drive. I was in typing class and I was done with my work so I thought I would work on an e-mail for a friend I wanted to send. I worked on it for about 10 min’s and the bell was going to ring soon I knew so I put my flash drive in and what happen next puzzled me windows would not install the flash drive and I needed it to. Then I knew that I could upload stuff to the inter net so I went to the live sky drive site and signed in. I took the doc file and uploaded it to my sky drive documents folder. When I got home from school that day I  got on my laptop right a way and went to my sky drive page and down loaded the file and finished it.

I started to think my be this would be a good way to back up my school flash drive cause now and then I for get it and im screwed normaly. So I took just took all my school work and just uploaded it to my sky drive and now if I ever for get my school flash drive it is there and it was easy. I just dragged and dropped it in the folder (a add on for IE & is needed to do that).I also added some pics that are important to me cause with the hole yahoo thing who knows what is going to happen to yahoo.

In the end I now feel a bit safer about my data and that im not going to lose it. The only bad thing I can say about putting it one the sky drive is that I can only restore as fast as my connection will let me. At least I know my school work my past blog past and important pics are safe and secure.

- Mike

True encrypt

Yesterday I did a full encryption of my system partion. I did it cause one I wanted to play with truecrypt and the other is I just don’t like knowing that my laptop is just laying there at home wile I’m at school and some one could be putting software on my laptop with out me knowing. So I encrypted the drive so I can be at ease. I went to the truecrypt web site and downloaded the latest version of it. My be it is just me but I like knowing nothing is getting in or out of my computer (for the most part) with out me knowing.

 

- Mike

Sky Drive Is Live

This week windows live sky drive came out of beta and is now live. They have added 5GB of space so for me that good for backing up my blog and stuff. They also add an extension for Internet Explorer 7 that allows you to just drag and drop stuff into your drive. It is also much faster uploading files to it than it was in beta. It is a really grate for back up and its 5GB free.

As grate as it is I think there is one thing they could do to make it better. I would like it if they were to allow you to download a program or something to be able to sync a folder on your computer to your sky drive. They should make it so it syncs to the sky drive when you can. Like for example have it set to sync my blog folder every Saturday at 4 PM then at 4 PM it dose it or every day or weekly how ever much you need it.

That for me would make sky drive so much better. Though I guess I can’t complain its 5GB for free I just got to stop being lazy and remember to back it up once a week. Well I hope to tell what’s on my mind about tech again tomorrow bye.

 

Mac VS other OEM's

Last night I was watching one of Chris Pirillos show on my Ipod and he talked about mac VS PC and I though hmmmm..... I wonder what he's thoughts on it are cause I know he has touched on this in previous nights. so watch the clip cause I don't think  anyone can put it in better words than he can.

Waiting for sp1 still

I talk about morwe tech stuff.

you can got Pocket KillBox.

Death of HD DVD

I talked about HD DVD and dumb people.

Talking about my coputers

What I want on my new computer

Well as you all probably know I broke my HP computer just before X-mass. I’m getting a new computer built from some off the newer things I put in my old computer just before it went and some newer things. I was told to make a list of things I have and things I want in that new computer so I’ll start with the things I want.

• Windows Vista Home premium (Yes I want Vista)
• RCA input
• SD Card adapter
• DVD Burner X2

That’s all I really want on my computer. Now the things I have aren’t any longer.

• Motherboard
• Wireless G card
• 4X hard drives 2GB-160GB

And that is about it I know I don’t want much but hey its what I want.

-Mike

Vista SP1 Here yet???

I read today from the vista blog that it might be here today. So I go see if it is yet watch =].

Some vids I did

Here are some Tech videos I did on ustream awhile ago there bad but should be shown. they may be out of order.

Vista Numbers

The other night I was listening to Windows Weekly and Paul Thurrott started talking about Vista one year latter and SP1 for Vista. He stated talking about the sales numbers for Vista in its first year and Windows XP in its first year and basically they found that in Vista’s first year sold more copies than XP did in its first year. Though I remember when XP came out and I wanted to upgrade from Windows 98 to Windows XP all I ever herd was XP sucks don’t upgrade basically the same things I hear about Vista and just like Vista with everyone buying XP in grate amounts as they are now when XP came out everyone was buying windows 2000 and got mad when Microsoft stopped making 2000. I have come to one answer and that is no matter what Microsoft dose this cycle will always happen. Sorry Microsoft.

If you want download the Episode of Windows Weekly of past ones at as well go to Pual's page.