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…
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…
What To Backup
There are as many different answers to this question. As usual it depends on what you need to backup and also how quickly you need to get back to your data. Prior to Windows 7 most user created data was stored in the users “My Documents” directory. How ever many programs would store data in the hidden “application” directory. This would be fine in some cases but many of these programs included email programs life…