Remember BitTorrent? The controversial peer-to-peer file sharing application. Well, things have dramatically changed since those days, and the company is developing new interesting products today. BitTorrent Labs, just released “BitTorrent Sync”, a free application that continues using P2P technology and it can well be your next favorite “remote backup”/”private cloud” solution, you’ve been waiting for. BitTorrent Sync [...]
In this Windows guide learn how to create a USB recovery drive for Windows 8, while safely deleting recovery partition and reclaiming disk space from your PC. With Windows 8, we are moving toward a new kind of installation method where a physical DVD or even a USB flash drive is practically not necessary. If you [...]
When upgrading from any new version of Windows, you will always be recommended (at least by me) to make a full backup of your PC before proceeding. This is just in case things were to go wrong and you have to rollback, for example, from Windows 8 to Windows 7 and, of course, to protect your [...]
Twitter is currently testing a new feature to allow users to download a backup of every tweet they’ve ever made, feature that the company has promised would be available by the end of 2012. The microblogging site is just starting to roll out the new feature and it is, at the moment, only available for a really small percentage [...]
Push-Button Reset: In this Windows 8 tutorial learn how to recover your computer without erasing personal files or removing Windows Store apps and important PC settings with the Refresh your PC feature. Almost all mobile devices in the market today offer the ability to recover a device to its factory defaults settings in case things [...]
The unexpected finally happened, your Windows 8 installation isn’t booting up, you are getting the blue screen of death, and there isn’t a way to get to the Windows 8 troubleshooting environment, or your hard drive simply went bad. It is just the matter of time for a storage media to go bad, but in the other hand [...]
A system image is simply a full backup of your PC which includes: Windows installation files, applications, personal documents, device driver and everything else, that will help to restore Windows 8 in case of fatal system failure, viruses, and other error that may occur. Creating an image of your system in Windows 8 hasn’t changed [...]
If you were running Windows 7 and you upgraded to any of the preview releases of Windows 8, and you did not reformat (erase) your hard drive during the installation, you are still able to retrieve files from the previous operating system by looking into the Windows.old folder. You see, by default, Windows during upgrades [...]
Doing a backup to protect your personal files is a good thing, even better when you do it at least once a week. Windows 7 comes with a great utility called “Backup and Restore” which allow users to create a system image/full backup (operating system, settings, programs and files) or just to backup personal files and [...]
Are you a Dropbox user? Are you taking advantage of Dropbox referrals? If you are, this is going to get you excited, the storage Cloud service is now doubling the amount of free space up to 1GB every time you make someone use Dropbox. This doubles the previous amount of referral free additional space that [...]