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Dropbox Bug Causes Man to Lose 8,000 Photos

by Geoff Akerlund on July 30, 2014 in News

A blog post on Medium.com caught my attention recently. It explains how one man lost 8,000 of his photos due to a bug in Dropbox. Here’s what happened, and how you can avoid making the same mistake.

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Sherlybox Wants to Be Your Private Cloud Drive

by Geoff Akerlund on June 9, 2014 in News

Sherlybox is a Kickstarter project that works with the file sharing service Sher.ly. The device aims to give you an easy way to share files, without file size limitations or privacy concerns associated with traditional cloud storage services. Instead of storing your files …

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IDrive Launches App for Synology NAS

by Geoff Akerlund on May 30, 2014 in News

Online backup service IDrive has released an app for Synology NAS devices. Since the app runs on your NAS (which is assumed to always be on) your backups can run uninterrupted without the use of a separate computer.

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Storj: Is This the Future of Cloud Storage?

by Geoff Akerlund on May 2, 2014 in News

Storj is an open-source, peer-to-peer, decentralized cloud storage project based on the Bitcon protocol. It works by storing your data – fully encrypted – on thousands of other users’ computers. It uses Bitcoin’s features of a public transaction ledger (e.g. …

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Thoughts on Microsoft’s Acquisition of Parature

by Chuck Romano on April 11, 2014 in News

When a big brand like Microsoft announces an acquisition, there is often a lot of speculation about what their final intentions are. When Microsoft acquired Skype, there was a lot of talk about the Redmond company trying to compete in …

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The Most Important Lesson from Mat Honan’s Epic Hacking

by Geoff Akerlund on August 10, 2012 in News

Last week, tech writer Mat Honan suffered a devastating hack of his email, Twitter, and iCloud accounts. The hacker was able to remotely delete all the data on his iPhone and MacBook – files that he may never get back. …

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