Tag: CARBONITE

Acronis is a well-respected name in IT circles, and when they release a new application people tend to take notice. They were nice enough to give me a heads up that their online backup app for Windows was now ready for download. A good reputation is a big deal when you're selecting an online backup provider, and Acronis certainly has that. So how does their Online Backup stack up? The ...

Don't want to spend more on shipping your gifts to arrive before Christmas than they're actually worth? Don't worry, there are lots of online sites where you can give some super gifts via download online certificates. Here are 14 places to check out to give some great gifts: E-Gift Cards: Amazon.com offers the ability to send gift cards via email in any denomination from $1-5,000. Your gift ...

Carbonite isn't a web based storage service per se. It doesn't let you watch uploaded videos or look at pictures like other services such as Box.net. But as an online backup service, Carbonite can store a lot of your data online in case your hard drive crashes or you lose your computer and you need to restore your files. Recently Carbonite decided to make it easier for users to access their ...

Carbonite has been providing online backup services for PC users for years. This week the company launched a Mac client. Here's how it works. For $54.95 a year, Carbonite provides you with unlimited online storage space to backup all the important files on your computer. At regular intervals, the program will scan the folders you designate and copy any new or changed files to the server. If ...

The holiday shopping season is upon us, and if you're trying to think up a few good gift ideas for your geeky or not so geeky friends and family, we're here to help. Over the next few days we'll be bringing you a number of suggestions for Download Squad style gifts. To kick things off, I wanted to talk about a gift idea for the computer user who doesn't really need any new software: ...

So far I've told you about two applications that were so awesome that I had no problem sending some cash to the developers to pay for continued use of the products. But both BeyondTV and Pocket Informant only require one time payments. Sure, you might want to pay for the major upgrades that are released every few years (smaller updates are usually free), but you don't need to keep paying to keep ...

A friend of the Squad, (we're not naming names here Ben), recently had a little mishap with his data backup plan. He was doing a fresh install of Leopard on his Mac, and so he backed all of his data up to a external hard drive, installed OS X 10.5, and then found out that the drive was corrupt. No problem, he logged into Mozy, his online backup service to access his 60GB of offsite data. But he ...

Carbonite is one of the best service for backing up your Windows XP computer online I have seen. Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch echoes that sentiment by calling it the "closest to perfection we've seen so far." You download a small file, then Carbonite goes to work backing up your computer at a rate of 2GB per day. You pick the files, you tell it what you want backed up, and Carbonite will ...