I’ve used Norton Ghost for years but have been eternally frustrated with the software as I can’t get it to do what I really want it to.
Ideally I’d like to create a customized version of a master restore disk similar to what used to ship with most computers that consists of the current OS (MS XP) and all my core programs installed (MS Office, iTunes, etc). Then the only thing I would need to maintain backups of is my documents folder itself and of course my WoW folder.
With Norton Ghost the easiest setup consists of a backup of your entire computer plus a record of the changed files (called incremental backups) - unfortunately there is no easy way to burn the initial backup to a DVD to use as a master restore disk and Norton uses a special file format for all of its backup files and not the industry standard Zip files.
All of this has me thinking that maybe it’s time to retire Norton Ghost and just look for a program that creates regular Zip files…maybe something like ZipBackup?
Written by Stan on September 5th, 2009 with no comments.
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So what did I buy the light of my life for her 37th birthday?
The only thing she asked for of course… A new digital camera!
Unfortunately, she wanted the HP Photosmart R725 and I couldn’t find one in stock locally. So I hopped on over to mySimon for a little comparison shopping and the best price I could find was at pcRush. I’d never ordered from them before so I wasn’t sure how reliable they were but they did have some nice reviews from previous customers and I was using my VISA so that I had some recourse if things went badly.
I needn’t have worried as the box that arrived from pcRush via FedEx was well packed and arrived quickly as I placed my order on April 3rd and my order shipped on April 4th!
I can honestly say that I will be purchasing from pcRush again!
Order yours from pcRush!
Written by Stan on April 7th, 2007 with no comments.
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Well, I decided to keep my ZUNE, due in part to the fact that there are two other ZUNE owners where I work so I can be “socialable” with my ZUNE.
One of the first things I discovered about the ZUNE is that the 3.5mm headphone (audio out) jack seems to be very “stiff” causing me to worry that I might damage the headphone jack while swapping out my headphones for my car audio patch cable. So my search ensued for a short dongle/extension cable that I could plug directly into the ZUNE headphone jack that would eliminate the necessity of connecting headphones of patch cables into the ZUNE itself. Unfortunately I was able to find at first was 6-10 ft long extension cables when all I really needed was something about 6 inches long… Finally I tried Radio Shack and they had a 1ft long Radio Shack brand “Volume Control Cable” for about 8 bucks which is actually working quite well!
Written by Stan on April 5th, 2007 with no comments.
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