Comments on: Google’s Gmail and Online Documents Saved Me From Disaster

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:13:08 +0000

Thanks to Adam’s comment above, I finally purchased an external hard drive to back up my files. I purchased a WD Passport portable hard drive (160GB) at Costco. I love it. This thing fits in my shirt pocket. It doesn’t need any power source other than a USB connector. It worked the first time and at great speed. Now maybe I can sleep better knowing my data is pretty safe.
PS. This product is listed in the current Costco member passport coupon book. It will be $20 off between July 30 - Aug 5. I think I’ll get another for my wife’s computer.

By: larrylohrman

larrylohrman — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:33:31 +0000

Susanne,
Yes, you can import your address book into Gmail.

Luckily I’d backed up all the important files from my laptop to my desktop and to an external drive. There’s nothing like a hard disk going bad to give new focus on having good backup.

By: Cherie Irwin

Cherie Irwin — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:35:53 +0000

I think there’s a rap song that says something like that…Back, back, back it up! But somehow I don’t think they are referring to the same thing. However, I use that line all the time when I host a training class for new real estate agents.

By: Adam Maurer

Adam Maurer — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:06:57 +0000

Three golden rules when it comes to computers and your data;
1) Backup
2) Backup
3) Backup!

I find it quick and easy to periodically copy everything to the second harddrive in case my c: crashes.

By: Gary Weinheimer

Gary Weinheimer — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 03:42:51 +0000

I save my address book to it. I also use a Palm Treo to which I back up my address book.

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 03:20:27 +0000

I don’t know why this isn’t more advertised. One cool feature is that I can save any upload doc or spreadsheet file as a pdf. Its nice to have a converter to pdf at no charge.
Mike

By: Susanne Hayek

Susanne Hayek — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:55:27 +0000

Can you import your address book?

By: Gary Weinheimer

Gary Weinheimer — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:37:46 +0000

I use idisk for similar reasons. these kind of things are good when you have a group of files that you can’t live without…

Peace, and rock on.