Telus, our local telco this past year chose Creston as one of the small towns to revamp with fibre optic to the building. This is a major upgrade for their customers who have previously had access to 3 or 6 Mbps ADSL, Shaw's services or Point-to-point wireless offered by one of two loal providers. T...
Which is better DAS - Direct Attached Storage or NAS - Network Attached Storage?
You are backing up your computer(s), right?
Direct Attached Storage can be as simple as a hard drive attached to a port on your computer - USB, eSATA, Firewire or Thunderbolt. Drives are available at many price points,...
Does one email address cut it? I'm a believer in creating as many email addresses as you need. Email addresses are so very easy to create and dispose, that it makes sense to have more than one. Working on a time limited project? Create an email for that time period. Need to exchange files or share e...
Working on a project? Looking for group collaboration software? Wiggio was created to provide web-based electronic collaboration opportunities for high school, college and university students, however it is open to all. Wiggio provides a number of useful tools for this purpose. Each individual has ...
I've been following a VoIP startup Voxox for a few years now, waiting for a mature OS X app to be developed. On a recent visit to their site, I found that indeed a Mac desktop application was now available in addition to iOS, Android and a long-standing Windows desktop application.
Voxox centralize...
In late 2009 I purchased my first smartphone, an iPhone. I was sufficiently impressed with the quality of the device that I began to question switching from my aging Windows XP computer. At the time I was engaged in a few specific tasks, so I decided to learn if my needs would be met on the new plat...
Hopefully this is the final design of a minimalist business card. As discussed before in the Business Cards passé and Personal Domain posts, I'm not marketing anything in particular, and wish to give folks the means to reach out to me. I feel this card covers it: name, email address, telephone num...
In the few years since I migrated to an iPhone and MacBook I've accumulated various pieces of software to meet my needs. Where possible it has been Open Source, though I have paid for software and Apps which have value to me. Here's a partial list:
Macbook
Further to the Backups and Archiving article of May 9, I read a great article on this topic on Anandtech website titled "Averting Disaster - A Guide to Computer Backups." Read it, and all the comments here.
My personal approach is to use Apple Time Machine and two Time Capsules in rotation, with one ...
These two terms are of times confused. A backup is a copy of your data held somewhere to address the loss of a data storage device. An archive is a non-current data set; it too needs to be backed up to insure against loss.
There comes a time when a large number of the files we keep on a hard drive ar...