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Is Windows 7’s built-in backup program worth using?


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Use disk utility to create virtual copies of your disks


How to partition your hard drive

Use Windows Disk Management with ease


How to switch to a flash storage drive

Solid state drives might be worth considering


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Maxwell Cooter

A bit of geek history

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What do you buy the geek who has everything?Well, this set of IBM programming manuals would probably hit the spot for plenty of people out there. They're part of a series of lots offered up by Bonhams, the auctioneers. Or;if...read more.

John E. Dunn

Pirates built online music so why not eBooks too?

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Despite daily hype and devices aplenty (iPad ahem), eBook publishers are a long way behind the music industry when it comes to shifting content and market building, and I think I know why. There just aren’t enough pirates copying and...read more.

John E. Dunn

The lesson of the Twitter hack: Passwords are pitiful

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Twitter’s advice this week to reset passwords after the latest attack on its users strikes me as not far off throwing a scuba mask at a shark. It works out that you are defenceless and just circles round to come...read more.

Maxwell Cooter

Is the future of the iPad as a thin client?

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One company certainly hasn't been resting easy since the appearance of the iPad.There have been two divergent states: either praising the device to the skies as the the saviour of the book/inewspaper industry or dismissive comments along the line of...read more.

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