Storage

I’m going on vacation and considering not bringing my MacBook because I really want to travel light. But I’m worried about having enough storage on my 16GB iPhone for all the movies and music that I want to bring, plus the photos that I’ll be taking. Can I upload big batches of photos to Flickr or somewhere else?

OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro "Triple"

Posted 01/14/2010 at 3:07am | by Roberto Baldwin

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It happens all the time. You get a brand-new Mac, and you can’t imagine a time when the hard drive could possibly be full. About a week later--after you’ve installed all of your applications and you’ve edited one movie--you’re stuck deciding which season of Doctor Who to delete so you can make room for all those boring PowerPoint files you need for work.

Google Docs to Gain File Storage

Posted 01/12/2010 at 3:39pm | by Cory Bohon

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Google will expanded its Docs service to accept file uploads that were previously not allowed.

Apple Updates iPhone iDisk Application

Posted 12/16/2009 at 6:06pm | by Cory Bohon

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Apple updated its iDisk iPhone application that works with MobileMe.

SpiderOak

Posted 07/15/2009 at 12:50pm | by Susie Ochs

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SpiderOak is flexible enough to back up anything, to share files easily with your friends, and to sync files between Mac, Windows, and Linux machines. It installs as an actual application, but it’s Flash-based, so if you use it on two or more platforms, the experience will be the same.

Dropbox

Posted 07/15/2009 at 12:27pm | by Susie Ochs

Dropbox is the mayor of Sync Town, working like iDisk but more reliably. And since anyone can have a 2GB account for free, there’s no reason not to try it out. Paid accounts are $50 a year for 50GB of storage and $100 a year for 100GB, so you might decide not to back up your entire hard drive. But the sync and sharing services are the whole point.

Carbonite

Posted 07/15/2009 at 11:56am | by Susie Ochs

Similar to Backblaze, Carbonite lives in your System Preferences, with an icon in the menubar for checking backup status, pausing a backup for 24 hours, or launching the System Preference. By default, Carbonite backs up your whole hard drive (excluding applications, operating system files, and temporary files, just like the other services reviewed here), but the file browser is clear and easy to understand, making it a snap to assemble a custom backup set.

Backblaze

Posted 07/15/2009 at 11:22am | by Susie Ochs

Set-it-and-forget-it Backblaze really wants to back up your entire hard drive, although you can exclude anything you want.

DV on DVD? (The Extra D Is for Don’t)

Posted 09/04/2008 at 12:04am | by cyoung

dvd I backed up a whole bunch of DV files to a data DVD. But when I play those DV files from my external DVD drive, they hiccup and skip as if they’re missing frames. But when I copy the DV files back to my hard drive, they play just fine, with no dropped frames after all. Any ideas?

Answer after the jump.

A Neat Hard Drive Is A Happy Hard Drive

Posted 08/17/2007 at 4:10pm | by Eugene Robinson

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Inspired by review editor Roman Loyola’s dogged insistence on every bit of technology lasting as long as physically possible, I’ve recently decided to resist the blandishments of all new gear and get my trusty PowerBook G4 to last as long technologically possible. Or, however long I can take it before I break down and yield to the KoolAid consumed in these regions every time Apple turns on the klieg lights.