Getting Started with Windows 8: Backing up Files

One  of the most important things a person should do with a computer is set up a back up system to ensure that no files get lost if something went wrong down the road. Windows 8 comes with a built-in backup utility called File History which is very easy to set up. It does, however, require you to use a network drive or an external hard drive and won’t let you use the internal hard drive. One of the advantages of File History is that it doesn’t create a backup file that requires a program to read it, instead it creates a directory on the hard drive where all the files are simply copied over at the rate of your choosing. Let’s get started!

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Getting Started with Windows 8: Mounting Disk Images

In previous versions of Windows, mounting and burning ISO files and other disk image files were a hassle. Windows 7 introduced the ISO burning utility which made the default action when someone clicked on an ISO file to burn it to a disk. Windows 8 goes further and allows users to mount disk images to use them without having to put them on a disk or get a third-party driver. Let’s get started!

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Google Drive: A New and Improved Google Docs or Something Brand new Altogether?

Today Google unveiled it's brand spankin' new (or so it seems) product, Google Drive.

Look familiar? We think so. (Click to enlarge)

Google advertises this new service as a place where you can "Keep everything" and "Share anything". But what would trouble one's self is the almost exact resemblance to the Google Docs layout that Google Drive has. In fact, if you compare the two, you wouldn't know the difference unless you look at the URL.

It seems that Google Docs no longer exists, period. The Google Docs URL now links to Google Drive.

As you may recall, Google has done something like this before. The Android Market, Google Music, Google Books and now Google Movies, were combined into one Marketplace Google deemed as Google Play.

Google Drive is a place to store videos, songs, images, and most importantly, Office documents. Right off the bat, Google Drive is creates Word documents, Presentational slides, Spreadsheets, drawings and more!

Wait a second! This sounds very familiar. If I recall, Google docs did this as well! It did. All Google Drive is, is a rebranding of an old feature that was updated and fixed up through the years, and rebranded just to bring it into the media's attention. Bravo Google! Bravo!

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