When I’m downloading files from file hosting websites I often use JDownloader for a more convenient download experience. While it still does not automate the captcha entering process before downloads start, it ensures that I do not have to keep the websites open until the countdown reaches zero. And, I get to keep the downloads [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

When you review a lot of backup software like I do, you notice similarities and differences. There are however features that make backup programs more attractive, like an uncomplicated setup, sufficient local and remote backup options or automation to run backup jobs regularly after the initial setup. The free backup software Duplicati offers all of [...]

Categories: Linux, Software, Windows

It’s the age-old problem with Windows and something I get more email about than anything else.  All the time people are emailing me saying that Windows has failed and they’re at risk of losing all their files and data.  It is really appalling to me that this is still happening.  After all, the focus of your PC [...]

Categories: Advice

Steam users have several reasons for backing up some of their Steam games. Maybe they want to move the games to a new computer so that they do not have to download the games again there, or they would like to save their single player save games to copy them to another system or preserve [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

If you are following the news on Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Windows 8 you may know that the Redmond company is planning to add a restore to factory defaults option to the OS. When you press the button, the system is returned to its initial state, handy for public systems but also for users who [...]

Categories: Software, troubleshooting, Windows

AVG LiveKive was introduced last month as a beta version. Users from all over the world were able to signup for the service for free and use 5 Gigabytes of space during the beta period. Today, AVG launched the online backup service LiveKive in select countries. The basic concept of the service has not changed [...]

Categories: Mac, Software, Windows

I have been using the encryption software True Crypt for years and ran only once into a situation where I nearly lost all the data on one of the partitions. Back then the header of the volume became corrupt, but since I had a backup of the header I was able to restore it so [...]

Categories: Security, Tutorials Basic

Dropping transfer rate costs per Gigabyte and faster connection speeds make the online storage niche attractive. One of the latest players to enter is AVG, developer of the popular antivirus solution. AVG announced the LiveKive service in February and promised that a beta would soon follow. The beta has just started and everyone who participates [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Most development programs have built-in options to save or backup the source files automatically. While that’s definitely helpful it sometimes may not be enough as they are stored on the same computer as the originals. Source code could get deleted or corrupted in a hard drive crash, affected by a virus or other malicious software, [...]

Categories: Software, Windows