Category: tools

  • From CrashPlan to BackBlaze

    Since CrashPlan backup service doesn’t support home users anymore, I’ve just finished successfully switched to BackBlaze. It took 25 days to backup around 800Gigs … so not too bad. I had just left it running in the background, probably could have gone quicker if I optimized it by playing with settings. Gladly my hard-drives didn’t die…

  • First Chrome Extension Installed on a New Browser

    Update: Thanks to ThisAsYou on Reddit, brought to my attention that LastPass has lots of vulnerabilities. So I will most likely switch off of them to something else. Perhaps 1Password. —- So I’m trying out Vivaldi which is a “power-browser” (highly customizable) browser built by a co-founder of Opera browser, built on top of Chrome. The…

  • Samsung taking a page from Apple? Uh oh

    http://technofres.com/2016/08/14/galaxy-note-7-samsung-getting-far-ahead-apple/ The new Samsung Galaxy Note 7, only has one model, 64gb.  It’s very simple to decide which Galaxy Note 7 to get… The iPhone use to be that simple… Now I have to decide between the regular, plus or pro? GB choices, and color… more skus… I think technology is meant to make our…