Hope for humanity – a laptop thief returns data from a stolen PC

However, it’s not something you can count on.

Backups have become far, far easier in the 21st century — almost every external hard drive comes with easily used PC and . . . → Read More: Backup your data!]]> A report in the Melbourne Age today, is one of unexpected kindness:

Hope for humanity – a laptop thief returns data from a stolen PC

However, it’s not something you can count on.

Backups have become far, far easier in the 21st century — almost every external hard drive comes with easily used PC and Mac backup software. It’s just a case of installing the software and setting it up to run a backup once a day.

Backups save you. Seriously.

And you (should) only lose data from a stolen laptop or hard drive once in your lifetime. It’s the “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me” principle, where you should learn from the mistakes of the past.

To increase your chances of saving your precious data (family photos, documents, videos of your kids growing up, important business documents, tax information, etc, etc), hard disks are SO cheap nowadays. Last I looked you could buy a terabyte (which is — more or less – one thousand gigabytes, also known scientifically as “a great big bucket of storage”) for under $150.

To put a price on important files, photos and other information of less than $150 is, to put it bluntly, a foolish approach to your life and potentially your livelyhood. The professor in the above news article was VERY lucky. Don’t count on this happening to you.

Also, if you’re running a Windows PC, please run your security updates and keep your PC virus protection up to date. The rules above apply just as much to virus protection as they do to backups! Read more about the latest PC software updates and free virus protection here.

Microsoft security fix issued

You can get it here:

Microsoft October security update – only works on Internet Explorer 6 or greater

With any microsoft computer, it’s really important to keep your security and virus protection . . . → Read More: Microsoft security and viruses]]> For all those running Windows, Microsoft has released a new security patch. Read more about it at The Age:

Microsoft security fix issued

You can get it here:

Microsoft October security update – only works on Internet Explorer 6 or greater

With any microsoft computer, it’s really important to keep your security and virus protection up to date.

You can download free virus protection for your PC here:

AVG – free virus protection for your windows PC

Here is the Google Maps page we set-up for them.

But this week, it’s back to the grindstone and the site has a new look thanks to WordPress being so . . . → Read More: This week at Tall Poppy Digital]]> Wow! It’s been a while between posts. This little black duck has been busy working for a single client, The Fruit Pedallers in Northcote, Victoria.

Here is the Google Maps page we set-up for them.

But this week, it’s back to the grindstone and the site has a new look thanks to WordPress being so easy to update. A few clicks of the mouse (and then a few hours working on banners and content) and viola! We’re back!

Updates this week have been to the content, but we’ve also added more graphic design samples, which were created for The Fruit Pedallers. Check them out in the Graphic Design page.

And now the week is done. Have a great weekend everyone!

Actually, they’re collecting more data now than they were before. One wonders what they’re going to do with it all…

The Melbourne Age: Facebook wants to collect your digital dandruff