Doing a bit of space cleaning on my laptop this evening. Mainly due to my recent addition of some videos with my Flip Ultra, I realized that I had not removed all of my videos I recorded during our recent trip to Disney World this past December. I’m sure it’s no surprise to everyone reading this, but man! video files take up a lot of space.
The question started coming to my mind though of the best place to store these large, original video files? Is it better to get an external hard drive to store all of these files on? …read more

What do you do when you accidentally announce something wasn’t quite ready for primetime? If you’re AOL, you stay your very angry that some of your employees released some search information. If you’re Microsoft, you just pull the post down off of one of your employee’s blogs real quick. The problem with the latter is that search engines are just too quick nowadays and Bloglines grabbed a cache of the page before it could be removed.
Either way, we’re hearing that Microsoft is working on an online back-up system called Live Drive (http://www.everyjoe.com/2006/08/15/im-getting-tired-of-windows-live/, or maybe it is and someone else is …read more