James, from LAlarm.com, offers the following tip:
Don’t throw your old USB flash drive away. Instead, you can use an old flash drive to prevent your laptop from being stolen. Here is how.
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This guest post is written by Patrick Jobin who gives eight tips for picking an online backup for your Windows Laptop. Find 0ut more about Patrick at the end of this article.
1. Make sure it’s properly encrypted
When traveling or working remotely, you can never be too sure about the integrity of your network or the other people who might be using it. When picking an online backup system for your Windows laptop, make sure you pick one that offers the right encryption options for your needs.
If you’re worried about securing the confidential data stored on your laptop, you want to make sure that your data is properly encrypted during transmission using a strong protocol such as SSL, and that the data stays encrypted when stored on the providers remote server using a password that’s only known by you. (And not the online backup provider)
If you spend a lot of time in Gmail, Google Reader or Hotmail reading email and feeds, or if you have a Facebook addiction. Then Prism is a great app for you!
Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.
I only came across this last week and find it invaluable already!
I recently reviewed Poladroid, a program, which turns your photos into Polaroids. A representative of Rollip.com approached me and asked me to try their service. In this review, I’ll show you what Rollip can do.
Rollip Features
Rollip is a free service that lets you upload your pictures and apply effects to them before turning them into classic Polaroid-style pictures.
Microsoft Word 2010
Now, as I am sure you have heard, Office 2010 has been released to developers as a technical preview. I have managed to secure a copy, so I will review it now for all those who weren’t lucky enough to acquire it. So, what can you expect from this revolutionary new software suite, planned to be seamlessly integrated with Microsoft’s Web-Apps?
Now web-apps have only been released to a select few, randomly chosen, to have their skydrive upgraded to include web-apps. I was not a member of the lucky few, so I won’t be posting screenshots off of the internet on here. If you want these, or you want to read a review of them, you can Google the subject.
I wish I could say that this is free, but none of the free options were high enough quality for me to recommend. That being said, it is by far the best solution for remoting into your Windows machine. Whether you are a gadget lover who likes having the coolest toys, the productivity geek who needs to have multiple solutions to every problem, or even the Windows SYS Admin who wants to be prepared…. just in case; if you need the best solution to remote in, I recommend Jaadu. It’s 25 bucks, which for an iPhone app isn’t cheap, but if you need remote desktop access it’s 25 dollars well-spent.
I’d write up a step-by-step of how to install it on Windows, but Jaadu already beat me to it with great Vista & XP guides already written up.
Jaadu RDP gives you full control of your PC’s mouse and keyboard while providing a rich visual display of your computer screen on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Jaadu RDP’s patent pending TouchPad interface lets you use applications running on your PC easily and efficiently.
Jaadu RDP lets you stream audio directly from your PC to your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Jaadu RDP is secure, using data encryption for all communication with your PC.
Jaadu RDP uses Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol to communicate directlywith your Windows machine. This means better performance and no additional software downloads to access your PC. Just configure your system and go!
International keyboard support.
Your PC in your Pocket. Anywhere, anytime.
Detailed Features List
- Intuitive Touchpad mode makes it a breeze to efficiently control PC applications using your iPhone: watch the video.
- Mouse support: left click, right click, double click, drag-drop and scroll wheel.
- Smart gestures: 3-tap quick zoom in/out, 2-finger vertical scroll, 2-finger horizontal swipe for task switching.
- Keyboard: modifier Ctrl, Alt, Tab, Win, cursor, short cut keys, CTRL+ALT+DEL and much more.
- Support for international keyboards and characters.
- Touchscreen mode for touch-screen friendly PC applications.
- Built-in RDP 128 bit encryption.
- Fully compatible with built-in iPhone VPN for corporate networks.
- Support for SSH proxies.
- Three audio quality control settings for optimal bandwidth usage over 3G/EDGE connections.
- Option to leave audio on PC or to turn audio off completely.
- Very high screen resolution support: 3000×1500 tested and works perfectly.
- 15-bit color and 256 color support
- Performance settings to increase responsiveness on slow internet connections.
For Administrators:
- Manage your servers from anywhere using your iPhone/iPod Touch
- Full support for Windows Server products (Windows 2000 onwards)
- Connect to unlimited number of servers using Jaadu’s server manager
- Console session option
Installation instructions for Vista
Installation instructions for XP
P.S. If you really want to go crazy with remote desktop with the iPhone you can go in reverse & login to your iPhone from your PC. You might wonder “Why would I want to login to my tiny iPhone screen when I have my PC?” but it can come in handy if you like keeping your notes all on your iPhone (and you’re not a fan of Evernote), for example. Click here for details on Veency.
Windows Guides reader, TheManRetired, offers two guides to help users who are new to Windows. The first guide covers installation of Ashampoo Burning Studio 6 Free. This second guide covers setting up your first backup to CD or DVD. If you’d like to provide help (simple, advanced etc., let me know.)
Hopefully you have the program installed but if you don’t I have written up an installation document that shows how to install it and where to get the program with a link to site that I know has it, so here we are going to start using the program. The screen shot here are made using the FastStone Capture program. With Burning Studio you can backup just about anything that is on your hard drive but I suggest only backing up what you have created as you can never get all the files and registry setting for programs and it is safer and better to reinstall the programs anyway so they set right and work and you don’t have to try and find out why they are not working like before. Here I am backing some music files that I ripped from my cd’s but the principles apply to all your files, you will just have to change the location of where you get the files to places on your hard drive and sorry this document will not go into all the places on your hard drive that the files are, most of them on a windows system will be in my documents(or just documents depending on your version) and most of them are located under your user account in either Documents and Settings or under Users depending on your version of windows, I am not going into any Linux or Mac systems as I don’t have them but if you want to give me one I would be happy to write up a document like this for those systems.
Windows Guides reader, TheManRetired, offers two guides to help users who are new to Windows. This first guide covers installation of Ashampoo Burning Studio 6 Free. The second guide covers setting up your first backup to CD or DVD. If you’d like to provide help (simple, advanced etc., let me know.)
Here is how to backup just about anything you want to a recordable CD or DVD. These instructions where made using Ashampoo Burning Studio 6 Free with the FastStone Capture program.
If you use Google Calendar, you’ll know how useful and simple it is. In this guide, you’ll learn about a tool, which brings your Google Calendar entries to your desktop.
If you run a website, you’ll know how important it is to keep file sizes down and optimize images, code, and files as much as possible. In this guide, I take a look at four image optimization tools, share their features, and compare them against each other.
