Living in the Cloud(s)

Like most of us these days, we spend a lot of time on our computers. Along with that, we store a lot of our information on these computers such as photos, music files, documents, etc.

One of the risks of storing our precious files only on a computer is the problem if that computer fails or malfunctions. To solve this problem there are many solutions such as backing up the data to disk, using an external hard drive, or using online services that connect to the "cloud".

"Cloud" back-up of data can be reliable, cost effective and relatively easy to set-up. Some very popular solutions that do this service very well include Dropbox, Carbonite and Google Docs to name a few.

All of these services back-up your files in different ways, and have different pricing (some even free!) so they are all worth looking at.

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