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Archive for July 14th, 2006

Need insurance for your laptop, PDA or other valuable electronics?

Posted in Good Websites, Mac OS X, Windows XP on July 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve read through some Apple forums, and found good reviews about www.safeware.com. It’s an insurance company that insures your valuable electronics against damage. You pay a yearly premium. Seems fair priced. I just did a quote lookup for a $1200 laptop, and it quoted me $72/year, pretty reasonable. I even [...]

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A great, free backup solution from Microsoft: SyncToy

Posted in Useful Software, Windows XP on July 14, 2006 | 2 Comments »

The fact of the matter is, you can’t rely on your hard drive to be last forever. Mac or PC, it doesn’t matter. A hard drive will eventually fail, perhaps b/c you dropped it, or b/c of an OS failure (more likely on Windows than Mac), or just b/c it’s gotten a bit [...]

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