Olografix Tech Blog

Here's something everyone should do, but nobody does : Backup. And part of those that do backup, don't do it well. Like me. Not so recently, I was upgrading my computer and had to reformat my hard drive. No problem I thought, transfer everything to my external hard drive, clean format my computer and get everything back from my external hard drive. Right? Wrong. My external drive decided to die on me in the exact same time frame that my computer was being setup. So I lost everything, well, almost. I had been given a free 1-year subscription to Carbonite and had given it a try. You install a client on your PC, tell it what folder you want to backup and everything is sent over on the web to secure encrypted servers (at least we hope it is secure!). The thing is pictures are synced automatically, but not videos, they need to be synced manually. Being the optimist that I am, I never synced my videos. I know, idiot. What this means is I could get all my pictures back and now th...

I should write about this because I've been researching this a little. When it comes to syncing documents across computers and devices, it seems everyone is trying to develop the perfect solution. I'm just uncertain which way is the best. I hate to have multiple versions everywhere and trying to keep things up-to-date. Here are a few things I've been using (and I use it all as they all do something different. Google Chrome .  I've switched to this light weight browser a little while ago. Of course, I use Google products quite a bit and their tools sync nicely together. One nice feature is bookmark and extension sync. Enabling this allows me to use Chrome on my home PC and anywhere else with my portable version of Chrome (found here ) and have all my bookmarks and plug-ins organized the same way every time I launch the browser. The portable version of Chrome is really nice as well. This allows it to be installed on a USB key. Just plugin the key and launch the app, no ...