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Reality Absorption Field: Backups Capsule

by Ross Rubin (May 8th, 2013)

Despite the great success and momentum of the iPad, the iPhone is still probably Apple's product that continues to receive the most attention by the broadest number of consumers as well as by investors. The smartphone slips easily into a pocket, accesses cloud from virtually anywhere, has a slick ...

Add a clone partition to your backup drive

by Shawn "Doc" Boyd (Apr 9th, 2013)

In case you missed it, March 31st was World Backup Day, a big topic of discussion on the last few Talkcasts, which culminated in a visit by the team at Dolly Drive. Inspired by the conversation, I wanted to create a clone-sized partition to mirror my SSD. I had an extra external drive on my desk ...

Talkcast tonight, 7pm PT/10pm ET: Backups and Clouds and Dolly Drive!

by Kelly Guimont (Apr 7th, 2013)

Another Sunday means another talkcast! As you may have noticed, Kelly's put some prep work in for tonight. We have some special guests tonight coming in from Dolly Drive, and we'll be discussing backup services, and cloud services, and what happens when you get your backup all in your cloud, or ...

Audiobooks are not backed up by iCloud, can only be downloaded once

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 3rd, 2013)

Audiobooks, unlike your other iTunes purchases, cannot be re-downloaded from the store. On a Mac, you can dig into your iTunes folder and move the DRM-protected files to another authorized machine. iOS devices, however, lack a file system that the user can access, so if you never sync with a ...

World Backup Day 2013: Don't be an April Fool!

by Steven Sande (Mar 31st, 2013)

Today is World Backup Day 2013, the day we (and other technology sites) try to implore our readers to make sure that they back up their data early and often. Believe it or not, as much as we hammer on the topic of backing up data, there are still a lot of people who just don't pay attention ...

Roundup review of iOS apps to backup your contacts

by TJ Luoma (Feb 19th, 2013)

There are scads of apps on the App Store which will offer to backup your contacts. I tried four: a free app, a $1 app, a $2 app, and a $3 app (all prices listed are USD). One was great, two were pretty good, and one was downright atrocious. (Note: all of the apps I reviewed are "universal" ...

Lessons from Sandy: CrashPlan and the importance of off-site backup

by Erica Sadun (Nov 6th, 2012)

When disaster happens, you want to make sure your data is safe. The reality of Hurricane Sandy demonstrated how important it is to store copies of your most precious records, pictures and correspondences off-site. If you are a CrashPlan backup customer, the company is making it easier for you ...

Missing your iDisk? OpenDrive is an easy-to-use substitute

by Mel Martin (Oct 8th, 2012)

When Apple killed MobileMe and iDisk I was pretty unhappy. It was great for quick small backups, and an easy way to share files with friends by giving them access to a public or password-protected folder. There are plenty of sync/backup solutions out there, like MediaFire, Dropbox, SugarSync ...

Mountain Lion 101: Multi-volume Time Machine

by Michael Rose (Jul 25th, 2012)

It's the little things. Since the introduction of Time Machine in OS X Leopard, Apple's built-in backup utility has provided a safety net for millions of Mac users by delivering effective, dead-simple data protection. Every hour, the latest versions of our files are neatly copied to external ...

MobileMe customers get free 20 GB of iCloud storage until September

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 7th, 2012)

Last year, Apple announced that it's shutting down MobileMe at the end of June 2012. To ease the transition from MobileMe to iCloud, the company offered 20GB of free iCloud storage to all existing MobileMe users. This free storage expires June 30, 2012, but a change in Apple's website, noticed ...

How to backup your Mac App Store apps

by TJ Luoma (Jan 23rd, 2012)

The excellent ReadNow application, which allows you to easily read articles from your Instapaper and Read It Later articles on your Mac, has been pulled from the Mac App Store "...because of an infringement letter." Developer Michael Schneider added "[i]n my current situation I'm not allowed to ...

G-Tech G-Drive slim: stylish storage in a small package

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 27th, 2011)

I've been trying out the G-Tech G Drive slim portable hard drive for a few days and I'm quite impressed with it. The unit I tried was the 320 GB version, and in my "everyday user" tests, the drive performed remarkably well. Design The first thing you notice about the G Drive is that it ...

Dolly Drive brings the Time Machine cloud closer to European customers

by Steven Sande (Aug 16th, 2011)

Everyone's favorite sheep-shaped online backup point, Dolly Drive, has opened a data center in Rome, Italy to give European Mac users faster Time Machine backups to the cloud. The new facility is part of a planned grid of data centers for the relatively new (less than a year old) and ...

Build your own Lion install USB thumb drive for cheap

by Erica Sadun (Aug 11th, 2011)

Why pay Apple $69.99 when you can build your own Lion install drive for the App Store purchase price of $29.99 -- plus the cost of an inexpensive thumb drive. Here's how to create a full install on a drive, not just the recovery disk that we recently posted about. You'll need a copy of the OS X ...

Iomega's SuperHero for iPhone provides an iTunes-free backup solution

by Mike Schramm (Aug 8th, 2011)

Personally, I have no issue with plugging my iPhone into my Mac every evening before I head to bed, recharging it, backing up my contacts and photos, and syncing my podcasts and music when I want it to. But I've heard before that a surprising number of iPhone (and iPod touch) users don't ever ...