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How Do I Know if my Cloud Storage is Secure?

I am a big fan of cloud storage services. It’s magic to me, the way that the photos that I take with my cell phone appear on my PC when I get home, without having to plug anything in. And to have all of my work from my desktop PC available to me on my laptop.

My data is available to me alone unless I choose to share it with someone. Most cloud services encrypt the […]

By |October 29th, 2013|Cloud Services, Password Management, Technology|2 Comments

What Everyone Ought to Know About Automatic Local and Cloud Backups

Your digital data is crucially important to the quality of your life. Imagine losing all of the photos of your children, or your client information, or your financial information.

Most of us know about backups and that we should be doing them regularly. Did you know that there continues to be new and easier ways to automate the process?

I recommend three copies of your data:

On your computer storage
On external storage media
In the cloud

Use […]

By |September 24th, 2013|Back-Ups|3 Comments

Photo Sharing

In this age of digital photography, we generate tons of photos – our families, pets, vacations, school field trips, concerts, parties; the list goes on and on. The old days of getting our photos printed and into binders and scrapbooks are largely gone. It used to be fun to pull out the old photo albums and sit down with family and friends to laugh at crazy poses and faces, and to experience a shared emotion […]

By |July 23rd, 2013|Cloud Services, Digital Chaos Control, Photo Management, Technology|Comments Off on Photo Sharing

Do You Need a Cloud Service?

You may have heard of “The Cloud”. It’s a term that basically just means Internet storage.
Your email, for example, is a cloud service. Your email is stored on an email server, and delivered to your device(s) over the Internet. If your PC dies, or you lose your laptop, your email goes on accumulating on the server, and you can download all of the new email as well as all of the previous email, when you […]

By |May 21st, 2013|Back-Ups, Cloud Services|Comments Off on Do You Need a Cloud Service?