Jim Becher - Surfing the Web

I have a lot of storage at my house. I have over 3 terabytes worth of storage available to me. The problem is not space, it’s files. I have files everywhere. The best example I can use is pictures. I’ve got pictures on my computer, my wife has pictures on…

I always seem to have some type of software that I need to install on my machines. This is normally due to re-installing or getting new machines. There is a great site that helps you add all your favorite programs in one install (allmyapps) basically makes a custom installer. You…

There is a sysinternals tool that allows you to take your computer and make a vhd (virtual hard drive) from your system. This is just fantastic. I can’t wait to find a reason to use this. I can see the reasons where you can want to make a backup or…

I finally did it. I now own a MAC. I recently purchased a new to me MacBook. I won’t bore everyone with the specs, but it has 2 gig of ram and the Intel Duo processor. I want to create an Iphone app and realized that you really do need…

If you are like me you use your camera on your iphone. I have to admit it is not the best camera, but I always have it on me. So I have found over the last year that I have taken a lot of photos. I wanted to re-stage my…

Since my hard drive was failing on my laptop I purchased a new drive. To migrate from the failing drive to a new drive was very easy with Macrium Reflecthttp://www.macrium.com/. This is not an ad for them, but the software works great. You just run the image creation while in…

My laptop hard drive decided to start acting up yesterday. Before it formally crashed (I’m not counting the 6 times where it just clicked and stopped working) I decided to make an image of it. After I validated the image I went out and purchased a new internal SATA laptop…

I am a huge fan of Mozy (Mozy.com). They offer free and paid backup solutions online. I use their services on every computer I have. Recently they announced that they have over 15 petabytes worth of data. What is a petabyte you say? Well, it is a lot of data….

I am always amazed how sites can launch and draw traffic. Then add a feature that just takes off. The facebook chat feature that lets you have an IM / Chat session with another facebook friend has over 1 billion messages a day. 1 billion is a huge number. In…