World Backup Day 2013
Today is World Backup Day. Where folks like me remind folks like you about the importance of backing up your data. Some of the stats from the site are quite sobering. More than 60 million computers will fail worldwide in 2013. Only 1 in 4 people back up their information regularly - that's roughly 45 million times this year where files will be lost forever. 113 cell phones are lost or stolen every minute in…
My 3 items to look for when switching from Google Reader to Feedly.
Last Wednesday, Google announced that it was planning to discontinue Google Reader. This surprised and angered quite a few people online and immediately people started looking for a replacement. I’ve been using Google Reader for quite awhile and I love the 3rd party integration like Evernote and Buffer. being able to access it from a number of platforms was also an plus. When I started looking for a Google Reader replacement there were several criteria…
Tech at the worlds and elsewhere.
This week I'm helping out of the 2013 World Figure Skating Championships being held in my hometown of London Ontario. In particularly I've been helping the worlds media get their laptops setup to connect to wireless network that has been setup for the event. For the geeks among you I can say this is some serious heavy duty networking going on particularly on the wireless side of things. All media these days comes with a…