I always suggest you have a backup plan for your precious data on your computer and the most convenient and fastest way is some sort of on-site plan, but what happens if there is a fire?

You should adopt some way to backup your files off-site. Whether it be a VPN (Virtual Private Network) where you backup files to another computer at another location or burning files to discs and giving them to a neighbor, you should keep files in more than one place. What if you have a fire or what if someone steals your computer.

Well… Carbonite.com has a simple solution. Backup your files with them. I must say for the price, I am very impressed. Carbonite offers unlimited data backup for only $50 per year, per computer. Seriously, that is a really good deal for me because I have tons of data. If you have multiple computers, just put a couple of hard drives in the carbonite computer and backup all other computers to the carbonite computer.

Carbonite encrypts the connection so no one sees your files being transferred and it all works automatically in the background. You want the encryption and you want the automatic running in the background so you can forget about the backup. The only downside to Carbonite is the slow backup and having to select media files to upload. You would expect a slow data transfer with any online backup because it is online and you don’t want to waste all your bandwidth if you have a limit. The other downside is the fact that Carbonite did not automatically backup movie files I had. That’s ok, all I had to do was right click the folder they were in and tell Carbonite to back them up. Done and done!

Overall, for the price, you cannot find a better deal for online backup. If you subscribe to this service, you should still have an on-site backup because if you lost a hard drive full of songs it would still take a while to download all of your files. If you have a fire and lose all of your backups, it will take a while to get all of your data from Carbonite but it will be there. I keep carbonite’s service as yet another backup plan for more data redundancy and you should too. To give you an idea of the data transfer, 600 GB will take about 200 days or so to fully transfer. If you are interested use my link to get 15 days free to try it out, I get no money but I think I get 15 free days on top of my subscription. Carbonite works with Windows XP and Vista 32 or 64 bit versions

I have been using a ScottEVest Fleece 4.0 for about 6 months now and have since purchased a shirt and a sweatshirt from them. For those of you Geeks who don’t know what a ScottEVest is, shame on you. ScottEVest clothing has created and I believe patented the PAN or Personal Area Network. Basically, ScottEVest clothes have a ton of pockets for all your gadgets. Seriously, my jacket has 20 some pockets and I never use them all but they are really useful.

To start, all pockets have magnetic enclosures on them to keep your stuff secure if you don’t zip up the pocket. This magnetic enclosure also helps keep you gadgets positioned the same way you stick them in your pocket. This means your stuff stays closer to you and does not stick out when you move around. There is seriously a pocket shaped for anything I can think of and I think every Geek should try out ScottEVest once.

The only bad thing I can think of is Fleece is most common in the vests and sweatshirts. This keeps me warm but I would like another cotton option because my dogs hair is simply magnetized to the Fleece. The ScottEVest Fleece 4.0 is available for $100 @
http://scottevest.com/v3_store/40_SeV_Fleece_Jacket.shtml

The holiday numbers are in, Apple Inc. had their biggest quarter ever with $9.6 Billion in revenue and 1.58 ba, ba, ba, Billion in profit! If you do the math, that is about 16.5% profit. Profit after all rent, utilities, and employees are paid. Those iPhones and iPods are making Apple some money, I have even heard they are marked up around 50%.

This revenue growth was 35% higher than last year’s holiday quarter, actually best in Apple’s history. Wow! Look out Microsoft.

All information quoted from Apple.com, for the full report from Apple check out this link. www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/01/22results.html