Taking back ownership of your data is rough. I’ve been trying to de-Google my life for almost a year, and I still haven’t mastered it. I still need my Google account and Gmail address to use my ...

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To backup your files with OneDrive, you'll need to turn on the feature in the "Backup" tab of your OneDrive settings.

It can be an exhausting job to copy files from one computer to another, whether it’s a new laptop or that processing monster you always wanted. Without the right means or methods, sometimes simple ...

Sync.com does what it says on the tin, syncing files across your devices. While it can be used as a backup app, it’s perhaps a little closer to Dropbox because it’s intended to carry files you can ...

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Dropbox may make it easy to sync files between devices, but if you’d like to skip the middle man, DAEMON Sync lets you do the same thing solely over local Wi-Fi. The DAEMON server runs on each ...

Microsoft has sacrificed usability to provide a pretty interface in this powerful but unnecessarily clumsy service. Using Microsoft’s Live Mesh service is like learning to drive a car: Once you have ...

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Dropbox (and similar cloud services) are awesome, but they don't give you that much control, security, or privacy over your files. If you want to take control into your own hands without losing the ...

The online backup service IDrive today announced that it is going beyond only backing up your data and is adding a sync feature to its lineup that will automatically keep files on different machines ...

Are your employees using free file sync and share (FSS) applications for sharing sensitive enterprise data? If so, the default public setting could be opening links to your critical data to the world ...