July, 2008

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Jul 08

Western Digital, my book 2, Raid, 1TB Studio edition review

External hard drives have come a long way in the last few years, long gone are the noisy and slow performing devices that offer no real practical application as they run via usb and are unable to power down on the fly.

Western digital are a good established company and I have the pleasure of using two other smaller drives from the my book edition recently that I client was using. So I know what to expect, a lot of quality.

I needed a lot of storage as I wanted to back up everything, not just the essentials. So 1tb was the way forward, I also decided to us eSata ( to a sata2 port) for speed.

I know that there are some 1tb drives out their but the raid 0 set up is a brilliant addition, as a high data transfer rate is one of my main concerns.

Also the drive is very quiet and even though it does have a power switch (button) on the back it automatically powers down as computer shut down. So it is set and forget wear!

I give it 10 out of 10 :)

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Jul 08

BullDog online back up 6 month free trial review

Bulldog back up is not just another online drive. It is a brilliant automated system.

The importance and practical application of automated backup systems is really coming into its own as more and more people get access to high speed broadband connections.

Bulldog back takes advantage of this by providing you with an online drive that initially is 10gb. I am lucky enough to be trialling a free 6 month version thank you to the cover disc in this month’s edition of www.pcpro.co.uk . I really like it, provides that off site back up facility that is essential now a days in case all if your equipment is destroyed or lost.. It also includes a great system for backing up locally and the best thing is it is set up and forget about software as if you set bulldog to run the backup job when the computer is ideal it will back up your system whenever it can.. You can also manually start the jobs as well.

I will certainly be buying this when the trail ends.

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Jul 08

WordPress upgrade 2.5 to 2.6

WordPress have released a new version of this brilliant package. I have just taken the brave step of upgrading to the latest version, if you are to believe the general talk that is around forums at the moment.

I have to admit it was easy, just a case to copying over the files and bamn it is done. Very smooth.

Thank you wordpress team!