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How To Backup All of Your Holiday Photos for Free Online

Posted on 30. Dec, 2009 by Squealing.Rat.

Photos are so beloved that to lose them would crush a person. Many people keep them just on their computer, but doing that can be especially dangerous. Hard drives fail all the time, and losing all your pictures would be heartbreaking.

In a worst case scenario, you always want to have backups elsewhere. While backing them up on an external hard drive is a fine backup, here are some tools that will backup your photos online for offsite backup.  Offsite backup gives you that extra layer of protection, so you can keep your memories around forever.

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Transfer Music and Settings from iPod to PC with CopyTrans 4

Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by srikanth.

Disclosure: Copytrans currently advertises with LostInTechnology.

Have you ever had your hard drive crash?  I know I have, and one of the most painful parts of it is losing all of your music. I had all my music on my iPod at the time, but iTunes won’t let you import music from an iPod.  Therefore, what should work as a great back up device doesn’t really help you out at all. You must clear all the music on it in order to get music back on it. Doesn’t really make sense does it?

Good thing for all of us, there is a great piece of software out there that makes it easy and hassle free to get all that music off your iPod or iPhone.  CopyTrans 4 lets you copy everything on your iPod and iPhone to your computer in order to safely recover your iTunes library. You can transfer all media (music, video, podcasts etc) including artworks, date added, ratings, playcounts and more. It enables you to import iPhone artworks automatically into iTunes and import iPhone media to respective iTunes categories.

Now, your iPod and iPhone are actually a great back up for your iTunes library.

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Mozy Home Unlimited Winners – Announcement!

Posted on 18. Oct, 2009 by Douglas Reynolds.

Wow, what a great response we had with our Mozy Home Unlimited Giveaway!

Thank you to everyone who participated!

We wish we could have given away a Mozy subscription to everyone that entered, but only 3 could win.  We hope you had fun participating in our contest, be sure to keep coming back for all of our great articles and even more giveaways in the future!

The winners of the giveaway were chosen using a random number generator.  Here is a representation of how we chose the winners.  We took the total number of entries and ran the generator 3 times in order to pick the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners.

Without further adieu, I’d like to announce and congratulate the winners!

1st Prize – 2 Year Subscription to Mozy Home Unlimited: Vanessa Sandoval – Posted to Twitter

2nd Prize – 1 Year Subscription to Mozy Home Unlimited: Max Sal – Posted to Twitter

3rd Prize – 6 Month Subscription to Mozy Home Unlimited: Sampath Iroshan – Posted to Facebook

I am so pleased to congratulate the winners!  I know from personal experience that Mozy is an excellent backup solution, this is a great prize.  The winners can be assured that their data will be safe.  If you didn’t win, remember, you can get a limited, 2GB, Mozy Home subscription for Free!  So head on over to Mozy and get your data backed up!

We’ve notified Mozy with the winner’s contact information, if you haven’t already been contacted then you will in the next few days.

A big thanks goes out to Mozy for partnering with LostInTechnology and making this contest possible!

(By) Douglas Reynolds is an application developer, holds a degree in Software Engineering, and owns an independent Flex application development consulting company.  He maintains a personal and technology blog located at dougrdotnet.  His business Web site is located at Douglas Reynolds Consulting.  Find him on Twitter @dougrdotnet and LinkedIn.

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Don’t Forget! Register For Our Mozy Giveaway

Posted on 05. Oct, 2009 by Douglas Reynolds.

There are only a few days left to register for your chance to win one of THREE Mozy Home Unlimited Backup subscriptions from LostInTechnology.  Just go to my previous post about the contest, and follow the instructions to enter the contest.

Mozy is a simple to use off-site backup service.  The Mozy client (backup tool) is easy to use and provides automated backup scheduling features that make it a breeze to create automatic backups.  Never worry about forgetting to backup your data again, let Mozy take care of it for you.  Your data is stored safely in a secure remote location, ensuring that your data is available in case of any type of failure or disaster.  With the unlimited backup subscription, you’ll have the ability to backup your entire computer and recover your entire hard drive in the event of a worst-case loss.

So, what are you waiting for?  Go register!

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Mozy Home Unlimited Giveaway!

Posted on 22. Sep, 2009 by Douglas Reynolds.

Win A Mozy Home Unlimited Subscription!

That’s right, we’re giving away some Mozy Home Unlimited love!

Mozy is a secure off-site backup service that I personally use as part of my backup scheme.  When combined with my on-site backup I am assured that I can get my data back, even in the event that my on-site archives are destroyed.  What’s all this fuss about backups anyway?  Keep reading to find out more about Mozy and how to win a free subscription!

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Should I Back Up Locally or Off-site?

Posted on 07. Sep, 2009 by Elmer.Thomas.

Computers are an integral part of our lives and almost have become a commodity. However, the data on them is often times invaluable. We place tremendous value on intangible items that physically are just a bunch of electronic and electro-magnetic bits and bytes. Sure, you could take your computer apart and hold the hard drive inside it, but what about holding the contents, each photograph, document, spreadsheet, family movie and song?

That data, which now fills our hard drives, becomes as important to our lives as the way older generations treasured the physical items that are represented now digitally. One virus, Windows blue screen of death, theft or accidental deletion of digital files can erase years of memories. Backing up all of these important files is an often-overlooked necessity that can help to greatly alleviate the financial, emotional and incredible time lost should something go wrong. Correction, when something goes wrong.

There are two schools of thought on how to backup data: (1) locally, meaning at the location of the main computer, or (2) off-site, in case of water damage, fire, home invasion, etc. Neither is hands down better than the other, but fit different needs.

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How To Back Up Mozilla Software Using MozBackup

Posted on 13. Aug, 2009 by UzEE.

I’ve always had problems while trying to migrate my Firefox profiles between different machines, and most importantly, when testing out alpha and beta builds of Mozilla’s browser.

The biggest problem is that the user profiles get overwritten so its almost impossible to downgrade to an older version which doesn’t support the new additions. Whenever you fire up different versions, profiles get messed up and at the end of the day, you have bulky profiles that take ages to load up.

Luckily though, there is a solution to every problem, and this particular one cane be solved by using MozBackup.  This tool will backup your profiles from a host of different Mozilla based applications.

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4 Hard Disk Utilities You Should Have to Pay For

Posted on 01. Jun, 2009 by JP.Thompson.

Sometimes you to run into the case when you need a utility or two to keep your PC in tip-top shape.  Well, I ran into the case of needing four different utilities for fixing up my hard drive and for various reasons.

These utilities work so well that I’m surprised the authors and companies aren’t charging people for them!  Here are four great utilities for cleaning up, defragging, unlocking, and backing up your hard disk drive.

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