Software Review: Mozy

This utility is so fantastic it’s almost too good to be true. Mozy lets you backup up to 2GB of your data absolutely free and it’s very simple to install and use. If you need more storage then you can subscribe to Mozy’s unlimited plan for $4.95/month.

I use it to backup my My Documents folder. The only problem I had was that I had over 2GB of data there and I wanted to use the free plan. So, I had to move my music collection to another location. A little bit of a pain but it’s worth it to know that I’ll never lose any of my critical data. If you have a lot of stuff like pictures and such that you don’t want to worry about losing then the unlimited plan is probably your best bet.

The Mozy software runs every night and creates a backup of any documents that have changed since the previous backup was performed. These are stored on Mozy’s servers so you won’t be using up any disk space. The data transfer is encrypted and access is password protected so it is safe and secure.

If you aren’t doing nightly backups you should be and this is one of the best solutions around.

Software Review: Foldershare

I don't know about you but in this age of technology and complexity when something comes along that simplifies things I get excited. And Foldershare is just such a "something".
I have a couple of computers at home, a laptop, and one at work. In addition, my wife has a computer at home, a laptop, and one at work. Each of us has files that we would like to keep synchronized across all of our own computers and sometimes we like to share them with each other. There are even times when we are at a computer that is not our own and we would like to have access to our files. And that is exactly the problem that Foldershare solves. All you have to do is have your computer connected to the internet. As soon as you update a document it will be updated on your other computers as well (assuming you have configured the folder for Foldershare updating). You can also synchronize your browser's favorites.

Wow! And you get all that for $0 (at least for now).

I've been using this for almost a year and I've never had a single problem. The only limitation I have run into is that there is a limit of 10k files per share. I exceeded that once and had to reorganize.

So, if you want a little something to make life easier then I suggest you download Foldershare and get it installed.