Top 10 Websites to take Online Backup of Data for FREE!

1. Online Data Backup by Mozy.com

Mozy has Free, Home & Pro versions. The free version comes with 2GB of secure online backup which you can use to back up photos, music, and documents, on your home computer. You would need to download and install a software once you signup with them and then using their UI, just have to pick and choose the files and directories to backup. The Pro version offers unlimited data but costs $5 per month.

2. Secure Online Backup - IDrive.com

Get 2 GB of full featured Online Backup for free. Features include Automatic Backup, True Archiving, Versioning, Continuous Backup, Mapped Drive Backup and Web-based Backup Management. You are required to install and login a software and all it takes is exactly 2 clicks to start protecting your critical data.

3. Revolutionary online Backup - Adrive

ADrive’s Basic plan offers individual users 50GB of online storage and backup for all file types for FREE. The Basic plan is intended for individual or personal use only, but I guess that should suffice for any personal needs. Adrive’s online data backup service is not as secure as Mozy or IDrive, but 50GB limit is surely attractive enough to be considered in this list.

4. SkyDrive Online data storage from Windows Live

Skydrive is a Free Online data backup service from Microsoft Windows Live. They offer 25GB of Free storage which you can use to easily store and share your files and photos with almost anyone. You need to drag files into your online folders, just like on your PC. All the files/folders will be password protected. All you need to have is MSN or Hotmail or Windows Live ID!

5. Free Online storage from Humyo.com

Humyo offers 10GB of space for FREE to store your personal data. Drag and drop option makes it easy to use this service. You can access your data from any browser or mobile phone from anywhere ,even when your computer is offline . One can easily upload and download any Size file and share with your friend or you easily publish your media on the web.

6. Free Online Storage from 123-reg.co.uk

Access your digital life anywhere with up to 10GB of free secure online storage from 123-reg.co.uk, the 123-drive is the perfect place for your information and files - it’s always ready to store, share and show-off your digital lifestyle wherever you are in the world. Easily share your files with as few or as many people as you like. You simply set permissions on your uploaded files and share them with the world or just the chosen few. I loved the security offered as well - 256-bit encryption, firewalling, a partitioned network and a structure which requires specific permission to view a file.

7. Online Backup from DriveHq

DriveHQ offers Online backup files, emails & database. It is Easy, secure and automatic. You can backup multiple PCs, laptops & servers. The free version comes with just 1GB so you can use it only for those most important data files you want to backup.

8. Remote File Access and Backup from OrbitFiles

They claim to be “The most reliable and advanced storage platform to manage your files online and it’s FREE!”. Well, I do not contest that claim, but they do offer 6Gb space to backup your data and share it online. If you wish to have unlimited space, you can have it for just $5 per month.

9. Online backup and sharing - MyOtherDrive

MyOtherDrive backup provides 128-bit encryption that occurs on your computer, before your files are sent to their servers. Your files are stored in the data center computers in encrypted format, so that no one but you can read them. On download, you supply your encryption password, and the files are decrypted on your computer after being downloaded from the servers. By the way, they offer 2GB of Free Space.

10. Secure Online Storage and Backup from SpiderOak

SpiderOak provides an easy, secure and consolidated free online backup, storage, access, sharing & sync tool for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Ubuntu & Debian). It preserves all historical versions & deleted files. You get 2GB of FREE online data storage space for backup.

Easiest Way to Backup GMail Data

I am damn sure that GMail freaks (like me) will adore this post! I have always tried different ways to backup the data in my GMail account, since it is my primary email account. I had tried configuring Microsoft outlook and Outlook Express for GMail, so that I can download those important

mails to my PC. But they turned out to be pretty slow.

But now, Jan Švec & Filip Jurčíček have developed a small utility called Gmail-Backup which can be used to backup and archive GMail account in a single click. It basically uses the IMAP feature in Gmail to save and restore the complete archives.

But now, Jan Švec & Filip Jurčíček have developed a small utility called Gmail-Backup which can be used to backup and archive GMail account in a single click. It basically uses the IMAP

feature in Gmail to save and restore the complete archives.

The messages are stored in the local directory in files which names follow the format YYYYMMDD-hhmmss-nn.eml where YYYY is the year, MM the month number, DD is the day number, hh are hours, mm are minutes and ss are seconds when the e-mail was SENT. Label assignment is stored in the file labels.txt which is the plain text file and it pairs the emails stored in the file described above with the assigned labels.

It is really a very simple tool to use. After installing, just enter your GMail username and password, select the folder for storing backup and then click the backup button. That is it! you are done!!

Download GMail-backup

The world will end in 2012 Say experts [ This is not end , Its Beginning of end]

Several experts from across the globe are predicting that the earth is likely to end by the year 2012. The reason could be a human effect or natural disaster. From Chinese theories to scientific predictions the most likely date is the year 2012.


SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS from around the world are predicting that five years from now, all life on Earth could well come to an end. Some are saying it’ll be humans that would set it off. Others believe that a natural phenomenon will be the cause. And the religious folks are saying it’ll be God himself who would press the stop button. The following are some likely arguments as to why the world would end by the year 2012.


Reason one: Mayan calendar

The first to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things -- building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and sacrificing virgins.

Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it’s likely they’ve got the end of the world right as well.

Reason two: Sun storms

Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery. Our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic and it’s supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the earth with lot of radiation energy. It’s been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse and calculations suggest it’ll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012.

Reason three: The atom smasher

Scientists in Europe have been building the world’s largest particle accelerator. Basically, its a 27 km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it’s properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They’re predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.


Reason four: The Bible says it

If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn’t bad enough, religious folks are getting in on the act as well. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between good an evil, has been set for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese Book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings.


Reason five: Super volcano

Yellowstone National Park in United States is famous for its thermal springs and old faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple -- it’s sitting on top of the world’s biggest volcano and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we’re many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.


Reason six: The physicists

This one’s case of bog -- simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berkely University have been crunching the numbers. They’ve determined that the earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event.

Even worse, they’re claiming that their calculations prove that we’re all going to die, very soon. They are also saying that their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 per cent; and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it occurs.


Reason seven: Earth’s magnetic field

We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that shields us from most of the sun’s radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call North and South have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so -- and right now we’re about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30 kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is under way, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches.

What is the iPhone 3G S?

Definition:
The iPhone 3G S is the third iPhone model released by Apple. It takes the second-generation iPhone 3G as its base and adds fine-tunings and a few major new features.

The major changes to the iPhone 3G S come in the areas of performance and media. The 3G S performs much faster than the 3G, with Apple claiming an overall two-fold increase in speed.

In the media arena, the iPhone 3G S sports a new camera that boasts 3 megapixel and can record video. The phone also includes onboard video-editing software. The iPhone 3G S improves in battery life, also, when compared to the one used in the iPhone 3G.

The iPhone 3G S doubles the capacity of the iPhone 3G, offering 16GB and 32GB.

As with both previous models, the iPhone 3G S has a 3.5-inch touchscreen and runs Mac OS X.

Features
Overall faster performance
a 7.2 Mbps 3G network connection (faster than the iPhone 3G connection)
Increased storage capacity
3 megapixel camera, with video recording at 30 frames/second
Onboard video-editing software, with sharing over text, email, YouTube
Onboard digital compass
Hardware encryption
Voice control interface letting users dial and control iTunes by voice; the phone can also speak what songs are playing
Improved accessibility based on the phone speaking content
Built-in support for Nike+ Improved battery life
3.5-inch touchscreen
Bluetooth
Built-in GPS
App Store support
iPhone OS 3.0 support

Capacity
16GB
32GB

Colors
White
Black

Battery Life
5/12 hours 3G/2G talk
300 hours standby
9 hours WiFi Internet use
10 hours video playback
30 hours audio playback

Size and Weight
4.5 inches tall x 2.4 inches wide x 0.48 inches deep
Weight: 4.8 ounces

Availability
Announced: June 8, 2009
Released: June 19, 2009
Discontinued: N/A (still being sold)

Also Known As: Third-Generation iPhone

High Capacity Discs within a Decade Watch out Blu-ray! Discs with 10TB storage coming soon

Massive storage capacity in your palms!

E-Mail Print We had only recently, on one of our Future Watch articles, covered a new technology being developed by GE, the U.S. based electronics giant. It talked about holographic storage that will allow users in the near future to straddle a staggering 470GB of data on a singe disc.


Now, we have another team from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, in collaboration with Samsung who are working on a new technology that can help create discs with a capacity 10,000 times greater than current generation DVDs. The technique allowed them to store an incredible 1.6 terabytes of data on a singe disc - with the potential being believed to be in the vicinity of 10 terabytes! To give you a fair idea on how large this is, a singe terabyte of storage space would be enough to hold 300 feature length films or 250,000 songs.

The technology will use a nanostructured material incorporated onto a disc in such a way that the researchers would be able to increase capacity without increasing the physical size of the disks. This is achieved by "adding" two more spatial dimensions on to the discs in addition t the existing ones. The new dimensions are the spectral and polarization dimensions. These new additions helped researchers to significantly up the storage capacity of the discs.

As for issues, the most daunting one is to find a way to write data on to the discs without having to wait for long periods of time. In any case, it would be a while since these discs would ever make it to the consumer market. We envisage a serious medical and military use of this one as this can be used for storing large amounts of data with encryption - a thing made easier, thanks to the increased data density