CrashPlan Review

I went out and signed up for the CrashPlan 30-day Trial a little over a month ago. I started by backing up about 350GB. (It didn’t finish during the trial, but we – my family – have the lowest connection speed that you can get and still pay money for it. We get a max of 850 Kbps [+/-50 Kbps] up and an average of 1.1 Mbps down.) After the trial, my family decided (on my recommendation) buy the 4 year family plan. The family plan made much more sense than anything else because we have 5 computers in the house that need to be backed up.

Here are some CrashPlan features that I really like…

• Backup Sets

  I have a lot of photos. More than 80 GB to be exact. The photos that I have are priceless to me (especially the ones of our trip to Vietnam and our recent cruise to Europe). Because of this, I wanted my photos to be backed up before my program files and the like. I was able to achieve this goal by creating multiple backup sets

Office 2013 Review

A little while ago I downloaded and installed Office 2013 Preview on my PC. Now, with only a few days before the final version shows up in stores I decided to post some of my thoughts on it.

1. Files First

   

   When you open Word, you immediately see your files.

   The first thing that I noticed about Office 2013 is that it puts your files first.