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Redo Backup makes it super easy to backup and restore your computer. Many backup programs are filled with complicated bells and whistles that make the process confusing and intimidating to new users. That’s a shame since these are the users who are often most in need of having their stuff backed up. That’s why I’m [...]

I have dreadful fears of the dentist, so whenever I read about new tooth technology that potentially eliminates the dentist drill I get a bit of a smile on my face. The latest future innovation that is currently working in mice was just documented in Popsci. It is (drum roll please) a hormone gel that [...]

Sometimes when you buy a computer with Windows pre-installed you just don’t receive all the disks you need for an emergency recovery if Windows just can’t find some of the files it needs to run. NeoSmart is offering a free download which can be burned to disk and used to rescue you in just this [...]

I don’t know if it will work with Windows 7, but Western Digital is currently offering its Acronis True Image drive cloning tool as a free download. This looks like excellent software with many of the features you would want for backing up your files and OS before a migration or for a quick restore [...]

Mathway is a simple website that just would have saved me in high school.  Just enter your math problem, tell mathway what kind of math you are doing and poof it solves the problem. If you sign up for a free account, they will even email you the step by step details on how the [...]

It is not unusual for friends to ask me for help when they are tossing out an older computer and don’t want to leave their data out there for some identity thief to pick up. These friends are smart enough to know better. Most people don’t. If you pick up a used computer or used [...]

When I want to do a new OS install on my laptop, one of the things I hate is reinstalling and re-updating my drivers. I was just reading about a free piece of software called Double Driver that makes it easy to back up all of your drivers to a USB flash drive and then [...]

I pretty much started ignoring information about the Kindle. I don’t like the policies, the equipment doesn’t seem to quite be there yet, and it is still on the expensive side. I just kind of put it out of mind. Until I happened to read David Pogue’s article in the NY Times this morning. Turns [...]

Adam Savage has an article up on Gizmodo explaining that electricity doesn’t kill us by frying us like an egg but just sort of short circuits us. It’s a fun read.

Do you know your fonts, do you want to point at things and shoot them? Then I recommend trying out the font game at deep.co.ukI used to be in pre-press, so a few years ago I would have done pretty good on this. Out of practice though, so my score was only a little over [...]