So, you have a NAS box, or perhaps a USB external storage device. It sits there on the shelf, or desk, and occasionally you head on in to retrieve the Abba album you squirrelled away, or perhaps that photo of uncle Philip asleep on the sofa at Christmas with a party whistle up his nose. And certainly these devices do this very well. Have you ever wanted to do a bit more with it though?

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Apple has launched the 2TB version of its wireless network backup solution Time Capsule. At the same time it has lowered the price of its 1TB model. As well as being a wireless backup device, the Time Capsule is also a full-featured 802.11n Wi-Fi base station. And now it operates in 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands simultaneously.

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I’m incredibly snap happy with my phone. The camera is the main thing I look for when I get an upgrade, and boy do I get my use out of it. But more often than not the photos stay on my phone for months before I get round to taking them off and sorting through [...]

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Most companies with any sort of IT infrastructure have got some sort of disaster recovery plan. Whether it be a set of tapes or CD’s or a redundant data centre, the idea of loosing the company accounts on a hard drive that has become a paperweight is something that keeps IT managers awake at night.

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This story at TechCrunch has shown just how precarious your data might be up in the cloud. It turns out that the company has possibly lost over 7,500 companies data over the weekend.

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Welcome to a review of five on-line storage solutions that are on offer today on the net. I have chosen them because if you type, “on-line storage” into Google, these are the ones that take up the top spaces. I have also chosen a bit of a sneaky choice that may be of interest if you like using existing technologies creatively. If you would like to know, read on…

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The Sandberg fingerprint hard disk box arrived at my door four or five days ago. I have been getting to grips with it, and finding out just what makes this drive enclosure special. Read on to see what I think, and indeed, to see if this is the drive enclosure for you!

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So it’s happened to the best of us…you’re sat on the train and don’t notice that your phone has fallen out of your pocket or handbag until you actually get off at your stop. You tell yourself not to panic because phones can be replaced but then start kicking yourself because you’ve just managed to loose all those important phone numbers, videos and pictures you’ve taken years to build up.

Just like we wouldn’t dream of not backing up all our important files on our PC, why do we not share the same ethos for our mobile phones?

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