Carbonite 6 months later - new review

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Written by Marco Conti Sunday, 11 April 2010 18:25

Carbonite Online Backup

Last August I blogged about Carbonite, the Cloud Backup Service, and it turned out to be one of my most popular issues with over 30K hits in the space of a few days (and still going strong). At the time my review was less than stellar because I couldn't even install their software on any of my machines and their tech support could have handled the situation a bit better.

But I always intended to come back and give Carbonite another shake. I don't enjoy bashing products or companies unless they really go out of their way to be rude and unhelpful and after my previous article I have to say that the carbonite people handled themselves very well.

Today, a bit over 6 months later I have been using Carbonite for about 3 months and I am ready to write a new review, this time based on using the product. In the meantime I have had a major crash that took my computer offline for a week, a laptop meltdown and a remote access need for some of my files.

TechSmith hits a home run with Camtasia Studio 7

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Written by Marco Conti Friday, 02 April 2010 15:45

Camtasia 7 Full Screen

TechSmith is a company that specializes in screen captures and related technologies. Their flagship product, Camtasia Studio, has been the last word on screen captures on Windows systems for many years now. Version 7 is a great leap forward for the company and with its release they have cemented their position at the top of the industry.

Windows 64 bit OS still a battered child?

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Written by Marco Conti Sunday, 13 September 2009 10:19

A Sunday Morning rant on windows stupidity.

A couple of yars ago I made the big jump to installing Vista 64 on my main workstation. The main reason at the time was because I felt the time for 64 bit computing on windows had come, drivers were easier to find and I wanted to utilize my motherboard 8GB maximum capacity.

Carbonite Online Backup - Too Good to be True? Possibly.

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Written by Marco Conti Tuesday, 11 August 2009 14:36

NOTE: April, 11 2010 - I just wrote a new review on Carbonite based on my experience in the last 3 months. Please read that article as well.

I was listening to the Leo Laporte Podcast the other day and he mentioned how happy he was with the Carbonite Online Backup service. Since I have been looking for a good online backup service when I got back home I checked them out and I decided to purchase it right there and then.

After all "Unlimited Online Backup" it's too good of an offer for less than $50 a year (after discount).

Since I have been having issues with some Hard Drives failing on me, and I am planning a major clean installation of Vista 64 on my main computer, I couldn't wait to put my music, movies and documents on a secure online storage. I almost lost my data once already when a "MyBook" WD Hard Drive almost failed. I can't risk a data loss. For $50 a year I certainly cannot justify NOT doing it.

And that's when the comedy of errors started.