Online Storage Free Trials
You can visit the website of any major file storage provider and find some sort of “free trial” offer. Sometimes these are limited-time free trials, other times they are free guest accounts. In either case, the purpose of the free trial is to let you give the service a try without risking anything up front.
Are free trials legitimate?
All the free trials I’ve looked into have been good deals. In most cases, you don’t even have to provide your payment information. There are lots of other storage services continue article...
File Versioning with Carbonite
One of the lesser-known features of Carbonite is file versioning. It’s a handy feature that deserves a mention, because Carbonite has a reputation as a simple, bare-bones backup service. Carbonite may be simple, but it’s not completely lacking in features.
Carbonite provides file versioning by taking a snapshot of each file once every 24 hours. These snapshots are saved on 30 day running periods. This allows you to retrieve older versions of your files going back up to 30 days.
Why is this useful? Well, continue article...
Guy Gets Busted for Extorting Nude Pictures from Women Online
Ladies and gentlemen, I urge you to be careful when it comes to sharing compromising pictures on the internet. The Central District of California has a notice on its website that explains how one man hacked into the online accounts of at least 350 women in order to find revealing pictures and private information.
The perpetrator didn’t stop there. He then used those pictures and that information to impersonate women and convince their friends to send their own revealing pictures. And as if that wasn’t enough, continue article...
The OpenDrive Unlimited Storage Plan
I missed this story at the time, but OpenDrive announced in January that it now has an unlimited storage pricing plan. The new plan costs $9.95 per month and you get unlimited storage space and no bandwidth limitations.
$9.95 per month may sound expensive compared to other unlimited storage plans on the market, but there’s a key difference that makes this a good deal. Unlike other unlimited storage plans, this one does not require you to keep a copy of your files on your computer at home.
The fact that you continue article...
BillDiary.com Wants to Help Manage Your Bills
BillDiary is an online service that is designed to help you manage and track your bills. The point of the service is to help you keep track of the myriad of services you pay for – utility bills, rent, student loans and other things of that nature.
There are a few interesting things BillDiary.com has to offer. For one, it can help you keep track of your monthly expenditures and figure out how much you owe each month. You can input your bills, note recurring payments, set up text and e-mail reminders and display continue article...
Netflix vs. Vudu
Netflix and Vudu are both online video streaming services that allow you to watch movies and TV shows on any internet-connected TV. I’ve seen a few questions recently in which people are asking about the differences between the two and which one is better.
Here’s the deal: you don’t have to choose between Netflix and Vudu. Netflix has a monthly cost associated with it, but Vudu is a per-rental movie service. It costs nothing to browse the move titles on Vudu – you just rent or buy content whenever you continue article...
3 Cloud Storage Mistakes to Avoid
Online file storage is a fairly simple business overall. You sign up for an account, select the files you need to back up and let the software handle the rest. However, there are three easy-to-make mistakes that can cause problems for those who are new to online storage.
These three mistakes are easy to run into, but they are also easy to avoid. Take note of these pitfalls and you can continue on in your file storage mission with confidence.
1. Giving your business to anyone who doesn’t offer zero knowledge continue article...
How to Take Screenshots of Entire Web Pages
You can take a screenshot of the viewable portion of your monitor any time by hitting the “print screen” key. That will save a screenshot of whatever you have on screen to your clipboard, and then you can paste the image in Microsoft Paint or any other photo editor.
The problem with the old “print screen” trick is that it cannot effectively capture long web pages. If you need to take a screenshot of an entire web page, the print screen key won’t do the trick. You need to do something else.
The easiest continue article...
How to Download Streaming Videos
I don’t know about you, but I used to always find myself wishing that I could download an awesome video from YouTube to save for later. I mean sure, you can always just save the link somewhere, but videos get taken down, internet connections fail and sometimes you just want to keep the darn video.
Well, there’s an easy way to download videos from YouTube and most other sites with streaming video. It’s a Firefox extension called Video DownloadHelper. After you install it, you can download just about any streaming continue article...
Smart Toothbrush Can Send Data to Your Dentist
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Conspiracy theorists beware. There’s a new toothbrush that wants to track your brushing habits and share that data with your dentist. The Beam Brush is a new toothbrush that tracks your brushing frequency and the amount of time spent brushing your teeth every session.
The good news for the privacy minded out there is that it’s completely optional to share this information with your dentist. You have to actually push a button to sync that data with a separate app that can continue article...
