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…
Where to Backup
These days the most practical methods for backing up is to another disk drive locally and/or online. A local backup is useful for being easy to get to for a restore. However if your office or residence suffers a disaster both the computer and the on-site backup would be destroyed. For this reason it’s important to have an off site backup. Many people will backup to another external hard driver and then take it to…