Xmarks Bookmark Service Closing (or not?)
Xmarks is a browser add on for all the major leading browsers. I’ve been using for several years and it does an excellent job. In a nutshell it keeps a copy of your browser bookmarks (or favorites in IE speak) to the cloud and allows you to synchronize them over multiple computers. It will also synchronize your bookmarks over different browsers ( From Firefox to Chrome) Because of these features it’s also an idea way…
Hard Drive Horror Stories
Here’s another case where you will be glad to have external backups. I read of a case recently where someone took their laptop into be serviced for a loose hinge. During the repair the service company apparently replaced the hard drive because it was ‘defective’. The laptop owner was not aware of this until they got the laptop back and all their data was gone. And they had no backups. The last paragraph from the…
Slides from Photocamp talk
Several people at my photocamp talk asked where they could get a copy of my presentation. I’ve uploaded it to slideshare. If you have any questions shoot me an email.