" According to a Harris Interactive survey commissioned by the online backup company Backblaze, only 36 percent of computer users back up their data at least once a month, and just 10 percent do it every day. "
I'm a bit of a shutterbug, so Photo Stream is something I was really interested in when it was announced as part of iOS 5's feature set way back in June. Frictionless, automated sending of photos from my phone to my computer? Sign me up!
Of course, as is too often the case with Apple, the nitty gritty of how this would work wasn't explained in any detail -- particularly for Aperture, which often takes a back seat to iPhoto when Apple is showing off its apps.
Hopefully, this article will answer all your questions about how these two products interact. If not, please leave a comment pointing out what I've overlooked.
Jean-Louis Gassée now writes a weekly column about Apple, but back in the day he was head of the Macintosh division under Apple CEO John Sculley. After his removal by Sculley in 1990 following nine years of service, Gassée started Be, Inc which developed BeOS, a multithreaded, multi-CPU operating system.
TrueCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux. In case an attacker forces you to reveal the password, TrueCrypt provides plausible deniability. In contrast to file encryption, data encryption performed by TrueCrypt is real-time (on-the-fly), automatic, transparent, and does not involve temporary unencrypted files.
You can search your computer using Spotlight using search options like other search engines.
Not sure how long spotlight has been this way, but I found it very helpful when searching. You can enter a search query just like you would on Google, use a dash or minus in front of word(s) that you don't want to see in the results.
"