Comments for My Tech Talk http://www.mytechtalk.com Helpful Advice and Information on Personal Technology Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:42:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 Comment on TeamViewer: Secure Instant Desktop Sharing (for free!) by Remote Desktop Software http://www.mytechtalk.com/?p=311#comment-2809 Remote Desktop Software Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:15:42 +0000 http://www.mytechtalk.com/?p=311#comment-2809 They do mostly the same things, but for my money the solution that Proxy Networks puts out is a bit beyond what TeamViewer offers. I think the latter just overwhelms you with options and it makes for a sort of muddled presentation. With the former I can just WORK and not have to worry about navigating through an overdone GUI. They do mostly the same things, but for my money the solution that Proxy Networks puts out is a bit beyond what TeamViewer offers. I think the latter just overwhelms you with options and it makes for a sort of muddled presentation. With the former I can just WORK and not have to worry about navigating through an overdone GUI.

]]> Comment on The Future of Mobile Computing? Palm’s Folēo, a mobile companion for Treo Smartphones. by Lilly Brookshear http://www.mytechtalk.com/?p=83#comment-2328 Lilly Brookshear Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:07:57 +0000 http://mytechtalk.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/the-future-of-mobile-computing-palm-creates-the-foleo-a-mobile-companion-to-its-treo-smartphones/#comment-2328 Highly impressed, discovered your post on digg.Glad I finally tried it out. Unsure if its my Firefox browser,but sometimes when I visit your site, the fonts are really small? However, love your site and will check back.Bye Highly impressed, discovered your post on digg.Glad I finally tried it out. Unsure if its my Firefox browser,but sometimes when I visit your site, the fonts are really small? However, love your site and will check back.Bye

]]> Comment on Western Digital Passport: An Excellent Option for Backing Up Your Data to an External Hard Drive by e74 http://www.mytechtalk.com/?p=87#comment-2045 e74 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:58:00 +0000 http://mytechtalk.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/western-digital-passport-an-excellent-option-for-backing-up-your-data-to-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-2045 Nice blog, I was performing some web snooping and happened upon your website, I was wondering if you knew your blog is displaying strangely in the K-mellon browser. I can see everything but the pictures are somehow out of whack. Probably not a huge deal since hardly nobody utilizes it any longer but I am old school and still use it. Nice blog, I was performing some web snooping and happened upon your website, I was wondering if you knew your blog is displaying strangely in the K-mellon browser. I can see everything but the pictures are somehow out of whack. Probably not a huge deal since hardly nobody utilizes it any longer but I am old school and still use it.

]]> Comment on Western Digital Passport: An Excellent Option for Backing Up Your Data to an External Hard Drive by Keith http://www.mytechtalk.com/?p=87#comment-2035 Keith Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:14:02 +0000 http://mytechtalk.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/western-digital-passport-an-excellent-option-for-backing-up-your-data-to-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-2035 I was genuinely surprised to find any positive comments here. While I have a long-time affinity for Western Digital products, nothing good can be said of DMailer's imbedded WDSync pseudo-app. It is an over-engineered, hard-wired, GUI-boy piece of digital junk which takes our money abroad and provides no service in return. It is inherently dangerous and WILL result in lost data for all but the most digitally savvy users. Now, if you plan to own only one computer for the rest of your life, never make a change to a file or directory structure, never update the target device OS, and never change an application or email client, then maybe this is the software and device for you. However, never confuse WDSync with a "back-up" application. It is not. The term back-up, since card punch days, has always inferred a level of user intervention and control necessary to insure the fidelity of data. Unfortunately, ou have NO privileges as a carbon-based lifeform with WDSync. Lastly, this again may be the device and application for you if you need no customer service. Based in Marseilles, France, DMailer must obviously take their cues from Renault or maybe the Maginot Line. Having engaged them professionally, with sound questions and years of experience far exceeding their help desk personnel, I was the recipient of nonsensical techno-babble and digitally illiterate responses. Even their test tools provide only vaguely coherent responses. Do yourself a favor - get a real back-up device and tool. If you're not comfortable with tools that approximate command line actions, have someone give you a class. Even if you make a mistake or two along the way, you'll be far better off that introducing WDSynce to your home or office digital environment. I was genuinely surprised to find any positive comments here. While I have a long-time affinity for Western Digital products, nothing good can be said of DMailer’s imbedded WDSync pseudo-app. It is an over-engineered, hard-wired, GUI-boy piece of digital junk which takes our money abroad and provides no service in return. It is inherently dangerous and WILL result in lost data for all but the most digitally savvy users. Now, if you plan to own only one computer for the rest of your life, never make a change to a file or directory structure, never update the target device OS, and never change an application or email client, then maybe this is the software and device for you. However, never confuse WDSync with a “back-up” application. It is not. The term back-up, since card punch days, has always inferred a level of user intervention and control necessary to insure the fidelity of data. Unfortunately, ou have NO privileges as a carbon-based lifeform with WDSync. Lastly, this again may be the device and application for you if you need no customer service. Based in Marseilles, France, DMailer must obviously take their cues from Renault or maybe the Maginot Line. Having engaged them professionally, with sound questions and years of experience far exceeding their help desk personnel, I was the recipient of nonsensical techno-babble and digitally illiterate responses. Even their test tools provide only vaguely coherent responses. Do yourself a favor - get a real back-up device and tool. If you’re not comfortable with tools that approximate command line actions, have someone give you a class. Even if you make a mistake or two along the way, you’ll be far better off that introducing WDSynce to your home or office digital environment.

]]> Comment on Jungle Disk: Unlimited Online Data Storage for .15¢ per GB by Mike http://www.mytechtalk.com/?p=263#comment-2034 Mike Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:27:14 +0000 http://www.mytechtalk.com/?p=263#comment-2034 Thanks Klaus. I think you just did for me. ; ) Thanks Klaus. I think you just did for me. ; )

]]> Comment on How to Backup your Data Online for Free: Shall we Mozy? by Mike http://www.mytechtalk.com/?p=77#comment-2033 Mike Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:26:17 +0000 http://mytechtalk.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/how-to-backup-your-data-online-for-free-shall-we-mozy/#comment-2033 Hi Bob, Thanks for reading my blog. A program like SyncToy is best used for backing up data files, but not entire systems. If I understand you correctly, you have backed up every single file (data files, software program files, etc) from your computer onto your Iomega external hard drive. If you need to reformat or replace your hard drive, you cannot have a "ready to go" computer by simply restoring your Iomega backup files onto a new hard drive. You can, however, restore the critical data files (photos, documents, videos, music). There is a backup process called "imaging" that takes a snapshot of your entire hard drive and backs it up onto another hard drive. In this case, an "imaged" hard drive can be used to restore a computer back to a functional state (including data, programs and settings). Here is a link to another person's blog post about how to use SyncToy for backing up data (but not hard drive imaging): http://www.pchell.com/support/synctoy.shtml Hi Bob,

Thanks for reading my blog. A program like SyncToy is best used for backing up data files, but not entire systems. If I understand you correctly, you have backed up every single file (data files, software program files, etc) from your computer onto your Iomega external hard drive. If you need to reformat or replace your hard drive, you cannot have a “ready to go” computer by simply restoring your Iomega backup files onto a new hard drive. You can, however, restore the critical data files (photos, documents, videos, music).

There is a backup process called “imaging” that takes a snapshot of your entire hard drive and backs it up onto another hard drive. In this case, an “imaged” hard drive can be used to restore a computer back to a functional state (including data, programs and settings).

Here is a link to another person’s blog post about how to use SyncToy for backing up data (but not hard drive imaging): http://www.pchell.com/support/synctoy.shtml

]]> Comment on Western Digital Passport: An Excellent Option for Backing Up Your Data to an External Hard Drive by Michael http://www.mytechtalk.com/?p=87#comment-2025 Michael Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:55:55 +0000 http://mytechtalk.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/western-digital-passport-an-excellent-option-for-backing-up-your-data-to-an-external-hard-drive/#comment-2025 Just to add to this thread, if you do need a professional to recover your documents, photos or other data in a fouled up WD Sync situation or just an inaccessible drive, I recommend ESS Data Recovery (datarecovery.com). They have a lot of experience with WD products and no doubt this issue as well and their service is affordable compared to other top tier recovery companies. They are recommended by Western Digital too - http://support.wdc.com/recovery/index.asp?lang=en&selregion=americas. You still have a good chance to get your data back. Just to add to this thread, if you do need a professional to recover your documents, photos or other data in a fouled up WD Sync situation or just an inaccessible drive, I recommend ESS Data Recovery (datarecovery.com). They have a lot of experience with WD products and no doubt this issue as well and their service is affordable compared to other top tier recovery companies. They are recommended by Western Digital too - http://support.wdc.com/recovery/index.asp?lang=en&selregion=americas. You still have a good chance to get your data back.

]]> Comment on How to Backup your Data Online for Free: Shall we Mozy? by Bob Bowen http://www.mytechtalk.com/?p=77#comment-2023 Bob Bowen Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:58:52 +0000 http://mytechtalk.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/how-to-backup-your-data-online-for-free-shall-we-mozy/#comment-2023 Hi Mike, well I'm happy for you you are in nice clean places, there's plenty worse, horrifying, to be in. I'm an old Grandpa of 73 and try as I might I can't find an answer to this: I have an Iomega exterior hard drive, which technically works well. My entire system is now "backed up" using SyncToy, left to right. So I was advised. Say I have to reformat and reinstall, the data on my Iomega is "read only" isn't it? So making my Iomega the left of the pair, and PC the right, surely I have not restored my PC as, what I synced back to my PC in not installed? I know the registry will be synced back, but is my system really installed and ready for use? Please settle this once for all for which I'll be grateful. Hi Mike, well I’m happy for you you are in nice clean places, there’s plenty worse, horrifying, to be in. I’m an old Grandpa of 73 and try as I might I can’t find an answer to this:

I have an Iomega exterior hard drive, which technically works well. My entire system is now “backed up” using SyncToy, left to right. So I was advised. Say I have to reformat and reinstall, the data on my Iomega is “read only” isn’t it? So making my Iomega the left of the pair, and PC the right, surely I have not restored my PC as, what I synced back to my PC in not installed? I know the registry will be synced back, but is my system really installed and ready for use?

Please settle this once for all for which I’ll be grateful.

]]> Comment on About by Danny http://www.mytechtalk.com/?page_id=9#comment-2000 Danny Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:24:42 +0000 http://www.mytechtalk.com/?page_id=9#comment-2000 Hey Mike, I have a question about syncing my WD Passport, and you seem to be the man to talk to from the other sites ive been looking at. Could you email me back so I can figure out how the hell to sync this damn ext-hd with my laptop. Thanks a Bunch Danny Hey Mike,

I have a question about syncing my WD Passport, and you seem to be the man to talk to from the other sites ive been looking at.

Could you email me back so I can figure out how the hell to sync this damn ext-hd with my laptop.

Thanks a Bunch

Danny

]]> Comment on What Women Want: Gadgets with Style by Blogcrazy1972 http://www.mytechtalk.com/?p=407#comment-1998 Blogcrazy1972 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:52:25 +0000 http://www.mytechtalk.com/?p=407#comment-1998 Why not try a Trackstick for this? Why not try a Trackstick for this?

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