Till date, we have discussed many cool tools to access services like Dropbox, SugarSync and Google Docs right from your Windows explorer. All the services use different tools and thus one needs to switch from one tool to another if he uses these services simultaneously. Otixo however, is one amazing web service that lets you [...]
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Few days back, my brother mailed me asking a solution to one of his problems. He wanted to know it there’s any way he can work on the documents and files in his Google Docs accounts – meaning spreadsheets, presentations etc – offline on different computers and have them synced with Google Docs, just like [...]
We use our browsers across many devices these days…from a desktop computer to a PDA. Carrying our bookmarks and other browser data across all these devices saves us from duplicating our data and effort. That’s why if you are a Firefox fan, you will appreciate the default Firefox Sync tool that helps you backup and [...]
These days it’s a facet of social networking sites that you can use them as bookmarking tools. Be it Facebook or Google Plus, our likes (and +’s) are captured and hopefully stored for eternity. A biggie as it is, Google isn’t going to fold anytime soon. But you never know when one service may get [...]
Dropbox is one of the most common names that comes to our mind whenever we hear the word cloud storage. No doubt Dropbox is stable and reliable and beyond doubt, one of the most widely used cloud storage services with a large user community but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t other good alternatives around. [...]
The world’s largest social networking site has become a habit. From sharing links to photo albums, Facebook is a virtual timeline of our lives. Thus, it is the next best thing to a digital diary. Agreed, it is not going to shut shop in a hurry, but there’s a chance that your Facebook account gets [...]
Delicious is one of the most popular bookmarking services around; irrespective of the fact that Yahoo didn’t actually tap its potential to the hilt. Now, we can expect some rapid fire changes as it has been bought by AVOS Systems. Helming AVOS are the guys who founded YouTube – Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. So, [...]
Product keys are like bank accounts. They should be kept somewhere safe. A Windows crash is misery enough without the hair-splitting if you happen to lose your product keys. Product keys are imprinted on the package your installation disks came in. Keep them safe and backed up is the first advice. Know how to retrieve [...]
It’s said about life and sports that if you do the basics right, everything will fall into place. The same think can be said about the simple job of backing up your files, folders, and vital data. The simplest jobs should be done with the simplest of tools. Bvckup – a free, real time Windows [...]
In a previous post, I talked about how you can backup and restore Google Chrome Profile data. The tool is amazing for users working on Chrome but what is you prefer some other browser like Firefox or Opera and use it as your default browser. Today I would like to introduce you to FavBackup, an [...]
Hardware failure and system crashes are not uncommon events. One night you are working on your computer without any problem and next morning when you wake up your computer fails to boot. Suddenly you realize you are in a big mess as the last backup you made was about a week old and all your [...]
For people like me, browsers are not just another tool to surf the web. Instead, they’re a lot more. As I spend most of my working day on web browsers, I need them to be stable, feature-rich and highly customizable, and Google Chrome meets those standards. It’s equipped with great features which make it the [...]
Your email account is definitely an important asset in this information age, and you really can’t afford to loose the data associated with it. While most of the mail providers ensure that your email is backed up and safe in the cloud, nothing is for certain. Hence backing them up offline on your computer is [...]
In one of our previous articles, we demonstrated how a user can backup all his data from Facebook on his local computer. We used Mozilla Firefox with ArchiveFB plugin installed on it to do the trick. The only setback was that the above trick worked with Facebook alone and did not provide any solution if [...]
How do you go about sharing online a screenshot or a video file or an mp3..any file from your desktop? Yeah, I know, there are tons of ways for sure. You could use Opera Unite for instance to share big files, CloudApp on Mac is an option, for private peer-to-peer sharing we’ve got iSender (or [...]
Most of the PC manufacturers these days have stopped shipping a driver backup disc with a new system. You could get them online but that isn’t usually the most convenient method, especially when you are reinstalling Windows, and might not have the network drivers handy in order to connect to the internet. Hence it is [...]
