Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced yesterday that Wikipedia will be joining the growing list of mainstream websites that are “going dark” on January 18, 2012 in protest of proposed United States legislation “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives and “PROTECT IP” (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. Only the English version of Wikipedia will be taken offline, ...
As you probably know, there are a number of great web apps for backing up your files. Many of us here at Techerator are partial to Dropbox. That said, for some people cloud-based storage is overkill. Others have serious reservations about trusting their files to others. Fair enough. So what can they do? Well, they can manually copy their important files to a CD or a DVD, or they upload them to a p...
CloudPull is an app that will back up the contents of your Google Docs, Reader, Calendar, and Contacts, but is available exclusively to Apple users using Mac OS 10.6 or 10.7. Sorry, PCs. It’s available for a 30 day free trial, but costs $24.95 if you’d like to use it permanently. This is your home screen. Once I logged in, the app was an absolute breeze to use and setup. CloudPu...
If you use Twitter, you probably know how difficult if can be to find a tweet that you posted a couple of weeks ago or more. Maybe it was a pithy quote. Or maybe it was a link to an interesting article or website. But once those 140 characters get mixed up in that sea of tweets you might as well kiss them goodbye. Or maybe not. While you can’t save your tweets from within Twitter itself, the...
Have you ever been looking for a file and then realize you trashed it? If this has happened to you recently, you may be in luck. You can download Disk Drill from Cleverfiles Software for the Mac. Disk Drill can scan your hard drive drive for recently deleted files and can restore the lost files or folder. Disk Drill is free for now, but pricing points for the full release have not been set yet. ...
I recently decided to part ways with my old LG Dare phone (VX9700), but before I got rid of it I wanted to back up the pictures that were still stored in its memory. Unfortunately, you can’t just plug the device into a computer and make copies, and it takes a long time to send each picture from the phone one at a time. This guide will show you how to quickly backup your pictures from you...
Are you tired of trying to keep up with synchronizing files on more than one computer or external storage device? SyncToy 2.0, a free application from Microsoft, solves this problem by allowing you to copy, move, rename, and delete files between storage devices or computers quickly and easily. Getting started with SyncToy is very easy: Simply download the application and install it. Once you...