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[18 Jun 2010 | 11 Comments | 2,692 views]

A friend told me a story recently about a colleague who walked into her office, in a panic about backing up the organization’s files: “When do you do backups? How long has it been? I woke up in the middle of the night worrying about this. I couldn’t find a backup disk. What if the hard drive crashed? WHAT WOULD WE DO?”
You might remember from a posting a few months ago about a web service called Mozy that we use to back up files.

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[11 Mar 2009 | No Comment | 346 views]

Don’t you just hate it when your hard drive fills up, thus sharply reducing the amount of space available for virtual memory?

If this is you, don’t panic. This hard drive bloat problem is fixable:
Space is so precious. But you can free some up on your computer by deleting large programs and archiving bigger files.
To archive those big files, clone your computer’s hard drive using Fog or Clonezilla for Windows or SuperDuper for Mac to a bigger hard drive. You can move your files from a smaller drive to a 500 …