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SyncBack: Synchronize and Backup…

Written by The Digitante on March 23, 2010 - 1 Comment
Categories: computer, productivity, security

I’ve covered a number of posts about backing up your information (Twitter/Facebook/Gmail with Backupify and documents/spreadsheets with Dropbox), but I haven’t really touched on how to protect yourself from a catastrophic failure of your computer. In a tweet by Eddie, a frequent commenter here, he posted another lecture on backing up your data, by Merlin [...]

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Tuesday Quick Tips: Alt Key…

Written by The Digitante on March 17, 2010 - 0 Comments
Categories: TQT, productivity

Over the past couple of weeks of posting my Tuesday Quick Tips, I’ve actually be learning a ton of stuff. I would encourage you to head back to the past postings and check out the comments for each. A couple of weeks back, my buddy Eddie pointed out that the middle-click tip was perfect for [...]

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Tuesday Quick Tips: Middle Click…

Written by The Digitante on March 10, 2010 - 3 Comments
Categories: TQT, computer, productivity

If you’ve ever used a mouse, you pretty quickly notice there is a left mouse button which you can use to click, double click, and hold down to drag things around. The right button brings up a little menu called the context menu that has commands that you can use to perform available actions such [...]

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Portable Apps…

Written by The Digitante on March 2, 2010 - 0 Comments
Categories: Firefox, computer, internet, productivity, software, travel

Last week I talked about using someone else’s computer and the traces it can leave behind. Furthermore, sometimes you aren’t allowed to install programs on the computer you are using such as when you go to the library or if you are in a corporate environment. However, there are applications out there that can be [...]

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Tuesday Quick Tip: Delete Autofills…

Written by The Digitante on February 24, 2010 - 3 Comments
Categories: TQT, productivity

We’ve all done it: you visit your favorite site and misspell your login name. Uh-oh, now you are stuck with a misspelled autofill entry for the rest of your life, right? Wrong! Who’s Teh Digitante? My evil twin brother perhaps? Hardly. He’s just a phantom that we can easily make go away with a couple [...]

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