When I’m looking at a search engine, I rarely just use it to find a website or person whom happens to just be on the internet. I have a habit of chewing up all resources piece by piece. So without further ado, I give you: How to properly use Google…
When I’m looking at a search engine, I rarely just use it to find a website or person whom happens to just be on the internet. I have a habit of chewing up all resources piece by piece. So without further ado, I give you: How to properly use Google…
It’s no secret that I love FiOS. I’m not even paid to say that! However, after dealing with my cable company for so long, I was ecstatic when Verizon finally installed my FiOS Service. In fact, dealing with cable, satellite, DSL and even another fiber optic service in my daily work life, I feel more than qualified to sing the praises of FiOS.
What exactly is FiOS? Here it is in plain English.
There are many reasons you might want to move to a new hard drive. Perhaps your internal hard drive is starting to fail, or perhaps your replacing your internal hard drive because you need more storage space then your current one offers. Whatever the reason, there’s some planning that goes into replacing any hard drive, or making any data migration. Here are some Tech Tips to keep in mind if you’re planning on moving your digital life to a new hard drive.
Author Credit: Lincoln Spector
Joseph Blough Jr. plans to upgrade his hard drive. How does he move Windows, his applications, and his files to their new, larger home?
I’m not going to discuss the hardware issues of making sure your new drive is compatible or of physically installing it. See How to Install a New Hard Drive. If you have a laptop, read Mobile Computing: Upgrade Your Notebook’s Hard Drive, as well.
So let’s get on with copying everything from the old hard drive to the new one. You can’t just drag-and-drop copy the files, as that will miss your boot sector, important parts of Windows, and any hidden partitions. If your computer came with Windows installed, there’s a good chance that you’ve got a hidden partition that you’ll need on the new drive should you have to reinstall the OS.
There are two approaches here: Imaging and cloning. Imaging backs up everything on your hard drive to a single, very large file on a separate piece of media–usually an external hard drive. Cloning directly copies the contents of one drive onto another. I’m going to discuss cloning here because, for this particular job, it’s probably the better choice. See Should I Image the Hard Drive or Clone It? for more on these two approaches.
I suffer from what the Germans call “Reisefieber,” which loosely translated, means pre-travel apprehension, or even anxiety. It’s a running joke around that office that I like to “have all of my duckies in a row” before I do anything. If you’re anything like me, this article may be for you.
There’s one point I feel that the author missed, and that would be to make sure all of your Mobile devices have been backed up and synced. He touches on this in #3. Let’s call this point #3b.
Enjoy!
Whether it’s a week’s trip to the country or a three-month break from school, you’ll enjoy your vacation more if you take a few preliminary steps to ensure that things will run smoothly in your absence, and that you can handle any crises that may come up. Here are five things you should be sure to take care of in the hours before you leave your desk.
1. Update your backups
Murphy’s Law dictates that disaster will strike when you’re least prepared for it. Take out some extra insurance by updating your backups just before you leave. For maximum security, make a complete duplicate of your disk using a program such as SuperDuper , and store it in a safe, offsite location. That way, even if the building burns down while you’re away, you’ll be able to get back to work quickly without losing any data.
By Chris Foley
The first question out of people’s mouths when they see me hanging out in a café, working with my iPad, after we get past the “Wow that’s heavier/lighter than I expected” and of course, the “Wow, that is just COOL..” has been, almost unanimously “Can I replace my computer or my netbook with one of these iPads?”
Well, I didn’t really think much of it at first, but by the 3rd or 4th time I was asked this question, I started to realize that there was really something here.
Well can it?
Most of my consulting clients are creative professionals; Filmmakers, Designers, Photographers, Music Producers, etc, and the simple truth is no, the iPad will not replace a professional-level workstation any time soon. However, as I think more and more about our normal customers, who represent the majority of all computers sold, whose technology needs are far simpler than these creative professionals, I realize that the story is somewhat different.
What IS the iPad?
Q: Is it just a big iPhone, or a big iPod Touch?
A: Yes. And much more.
Q: Is it just an underpowered laptop computer running a mobile phone operating system?
A: Yes. And much more.
Q: Is this thing the future of computing?
A: Yes. And much more.
The iPad will easily (and elegantly) handle the basic needs of many computer users. Let’s take a look at what we can do.
Web
Email and Web browsing are handled with the Mac Mail email application, and Safari, respectively. If you currently access your email via a web browser, than you can continue to do so on the iPad. The device connects to your Gmail, Yahoo mail, Hotmail or MSN, AOL, etc.
The Safari web browser on the iPad is NOT a crippled mobile version of a web browser, as you’ll find on many mobile devices INCLUDING the iPhone. Some sites do recognize iPad’s Safari as a mobile browser, and will deliver a mobile version of the site, but these sites very frequently have a control at the bottom of the page while allows you to switch from mobile view to normal page page view. Twitter.com is a good example of this. I’ve not run into any issues with this yet.
NOTE: I’m not a very big fan of safari on the iPhone, though I do recognize that before the iPhone came out, we were all trying to access the internet on mobile web browsers which really shouldn’t have been called “web browsers” at all.
Safari for iPad is a full-sized web browser which interacts well with every website that I’ve visited — with the obvious exception of all pages containing Flash content, which the iPad does not support.
Click HERE to view a showcase of Top-Level websites that function beautifully on iPad.
Social Networking
There are many Twitter and other social networking applications available for the iPad, similar to the assortment currently available for the iPhone/iPod. Also, the iPad will run all of your iPhone applications as well, though they don’t look very good on the iPad. There are thousands of apps already available for the iPad, with more coming every week.
Workflow
iPad does not support Microsoft Office products, such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. There are several Office-compatible applications available, however, such as Apple’s own Pages (a replacement for Microsoft Word), Apple’s Keynote (a PowerPoint replacement) and Numbers (an Excel replacement.) Now, I’ve already replaced my own need for Microsoft Office products by moving my workflow into Google Docs, which I can access from any computer no matter where I am in the world. There are already a handful of superb applications for the iPad which enable you to access and edit your suite of Google documents from the iPad.
Bottom line, you can work with word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, make flyers, etc.
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