Data Backup For BeginnersWritten by Niall Roche
It's 10pm. Do you know where your data is?Data. Small bits of information clustered together to make Word files, documents,pictures, MP3s, HTML etc. We work on our computers every single day never sparing a thought for all those millions of chunks of data spread all over our hard disks. The data is there and it does it's job. Until of course data is not there anymore. 72 hours ago I suffered from massive data loss. There were no hackers involved. No power surges or lightning strikes. Just wear and tear on my hard disk. 20 Gigabytes of business and personal information gone forever. Passwords, HTML files, ebooks all gone. I didn't lose any sleep though. Why? Simply because this was my secondary hard disk that was only used as a backup drive. All my critically important data is safely stored elsewhere. Picture this scenario. You sit at your computer, turn it on and nothing. Dead. You've just lost everything you've worked on for last 12 months. All your Adwords campaigns, website templates, ebooks, Excel files. Everything. How do you feel? How do you go about recovering? ======================================== 70% of companies who suffer serious data loss go out of business within 12 months. ======================================== The truth is that most people never recover from losing all their data. What can you do to prevent this happening to you? Backup.Backup. Backup. Use a backup system. How do I backup my data? You could use a zip drive, a CDR/DVD writer, a USB drive or a secure online storage service. Using any of above is far better than using nothing at all and hoping for best.
| | PC Doctor+ Guide 10 Pop-Ups and How To Stop ThemWritten by Steve Latimer
POP-UPS AND HOW TO STOP THEM What Are Pop-Ups? OK. So you've been quietly browsing away on web when suddenly out of nowhere a small window appears advertising some previously unheard of product or service. Welcome to Pop-Ups.Actually, Pop-Ups can have a useful purpose and are a legitimate programming tool. For example, they are useful for entering sign-on information. Suppose you need to enter a password to get into a web site - its much better and quicker to use a small, supplementary window than to have to wait until a full 'Password Entry' screen is loaded. Pop-Ups are also useful for small Java Applets such as those little buttons that allow entry into many chat rooms. Where do they come from? For most part, Pop-Ups are caused by small pieces of Java script which are attached to web pages that you view. Some are timed to appear after a set period as you view a page while others will open a pop-up window underneath current page and so only become visible when you close browser window (pop-unders). The main use of Pop-Ups is for intrusive commercial advertising. There are quite a few software programs that claim to control Pop-Ups - some good and some not so good. There are so many in fact that I don't want to get embroiled in a program by program comparison. If you want to take a look at a selection and make your own mind up then I would recommend Download. COM Just enter Pop-Ups in search window and I'm sure you'll be kept occupied for some time. For purpose of this guide I want to concentrate on method that I personally use to control Pop-Up Ads because I know that if you're suffering from little blighters then this approach will lower your stress levels significantly without requiring much effort on your part. Firstly, we have to consider our old enemy SPYWARE. Remember main job of Spyware is to feed back to an organisation your surfing habits i.e. things you are interested in. The other side of this coin is forward traffic this produces to you PC which often takes form of Pop-Up Ads. So you visit a couple of insurance web sites and pretty soon you're deluged with pop-ups trying to sell you car insurance. Getting rid of Spyware is therefore stage 1 in a 2-step process and for this I would ask you to read The PC Doctor Guide 3 on Spyware. Our main weapon against Spyware is Spybot Search and Destroy which you can download from download section of Arrival site at www.arrival-computers.co.uk or from download.com. Stage 2 is to install one of my favourite little add-ons GOOGLE Toolbar. I like GOOGLE Toolbar for a number of reasons. Firstly, it’s FREE – an important point as many of other pop-up stoppers are commercial programs requiring payment. The second reason is because GOOGLE have had sense to keep it small. As a result it sits unobtrusively under explorer bar; unlike other similar toolbars which seem to take up so much space.
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