3-2-1 Backup Method

What is the 3-2-1 backup method?  It’s simple!  A 3-2-1 strategy means having at least 3 different copies of your data; 2 of which are local but on different devices, and at least 1 copy is stored off-site. This method is based on one concept: redundancy. Each...

What is the Cloud?

You’ve heard of “the Cloud”, but do you know what it is?  Do you know how it can benefit you? “the Cloud” Basics What “the Cloud” is not; “the Cloud” is not some big storage space sitting out somewhere in the sky...

Facial Recognition in Photo Sharing Sites

While researching information for another blog article, I ran across an article where Shutterfly was sued for using facial recognition in their database.  So, I had to jump on this as facial recognition and tagging are used more and more in photo sharing sites.  So...

Happy Father’s Day

In honor of Father’s Day, how about remembering a lesson your dad taught you? There were lots of lessons my dad tried to teach me. One of those lessons was how to take a hook out of a fish. That didn’t go well as a kid. But when I had my own child, I had...

Facebook and How Apps Others Use Affect You

I was doing further research this morning about Facebook deleting secret photos.  The keyword here is secret, and believe this is if you have turned on syncing with your mobile device. Anyway, what really caught my eye was something I had not seen before.  You know...