Your Digital Life

It may be hard to believe, but it’s true: your digital photos captured with the latest and greatest technology may not last as long as the old film photos you snapped a generation ago. The reason is simple – in the old days, the only way you’d lose your photos is if some massive catastrophe [...]

While everyone is busy clicking away and capturing life’s memories in record numbers how many of us are really taking the necessary steps to preserve these images from digital disaster? With digital photography comes a whole new set of potential problems. While forgetting to backup your files could be financially disastrous for a pro, the [...]

Just as there is a large market for external hard drives for PCs and laptops, there’s now a growing market for portable drives designed specifically for tablet computers like Apple’s iPad. The latest entry is Kingston’s Wi-Drive. The Wi-Drive uses flash memory (either 16GB or 32GB) so it’s lighter and slimmer than an external hard [...]

As many of us know – from painful first hand experience or simply reading the news – Mother Nature can strike with devastating ferocity. The last two years alone have brought earthquakes, record heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts to many parts of the world. During these extreme weather situations and [...]

Portable storage solutions abound today but we have to admit that few have actually taken the on-the-go photographer into consideration…until now. Argraph’s MemoryKick Si was clearly designed with imaging in mind as the devices’ primary function is to clear your media card while you’re out shooting and your computer is at home…where it belongs. No [...]

Storage solutions are great but what good are they if they don’t also provide a little organization? Western Digital offers its My Passport™ Studio portable drives feature a customizable e-label that’s always visible, even when the drive is unplugged. The My Passport Studio drives are formatted for Mac computers, compatible with Apple TimeMachine software, and [...]

What fun are your memories if no one ever sees them? That’s become the $64,000 question for anyone with a digital camera these days. You’ve spent countless days clicking away, recording all the major (and sometimes not so major) moments in your life and then carefully uploading all these wonderful memories to your hard drive….where [...]

You’ll hear us harp incessantly about how important protecting your digital memories is and how external hard drives are a must-have for storing your files outside of your computer’s hard drive. So we were happy to find the Consumer Electronics Show offering up plenty of external drives for our brimming digital libraries. From Verbatim comes [...]

Okay, we realize that backing up your files can be a chore but as your digital photos and videos continue to mount the importance of doing so has reached a critical level.  Simply stated, you gotta start protecting your digital life. (You can see our advice on where to back up your photos and videos [...]

When it comes to protecting your photos, the watchword is “redundancy.” It’s important to make multiple copies of the same image and store it on different storage media to make sure your photos stay safe for generations to come. The question is: what’s the best place to store your photos? We’ve run down the pros [...]