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10-15-2009, 09:33 PM
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Do You Rely on Web Applications to Store Your Information
Do you have everthing you need stored at an online application or in your phone?
Maybe you will think twice about that after reading:
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A recent failure affecting T-Mobile's Sidekick service caused thousands of customers to lose their personal contact information....
...On Oct. 2, the servers used by the Sidekick service to store customers' contacts, calendars, to-do lists, photos, and other personal information failed, as described in a New York Times story. During the process of restoring the servers, which are managed by Microsoft's Danger subsidiary, the data files on the primary and backup servers were corrupted....
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10-15-2009, 09:58 PM
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Although I wouldn't necessarily point my finger at cloud-computing, (there is something to be said about backing up your own data) those back-up folks really screwed the pooch on this one.
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10-16-2009, 12:30 AM
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In order to save the most important information,I usually save them on my own disk in case of loosing important data.And as for some information that doesn't important I would be able to select web applications.
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10-21-2009, 10:11 AM
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We all sort of do.
If my gmail account went down Id be lost.
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10-21-2009, 04:41 PM
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Ah - don't get me started on Microsoft, subsidiary or not! Figures...
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10-21-2009, 05:08 PM
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This is really a problem for me.
I use bookmarking sites to keep my favorite sites, photo sites to store my photos and online disk to hold my files. 
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10-21-2009, 05:27 PM
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Yup I do, and it happened to me when one of my file are corrupted and no back up. Serve me right. Now I always make it sure to save it on my disk.
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10-21-2009, 05:55 PM
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I no longer do, I just keep all my computers data on a separate dedicated server I own.
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10-21-2009, 06:20 PM
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I do heavily rely on technology and I did get a little lesson when my phone died and all my important information couldn't be saved. I pretty much had to start over. Now I keep paper copies of everything from contacts to coupon websites.
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10-22-2009, 07:04 PM
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The web is the only place I keep my contacts' email addresses. I should make a backup now.
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10-22-2009, 07:29 PM
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It's one thing to store data using a web application but it's another to use it as backup or irregular accessibility eg when travelling.
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10-22-2009, 08:55 PM
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I've stored contacts' email addresses in my diary, softwares copied into Dvd ..
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10-22-2009, 09:29 PM
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I have written everything in a notebook also including computer.
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10-24-2009, 07:38 PM
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i keep all important info in my head and in USB drive which is there only to store that kinda info
other not so important things are on my mail account and on some online storage
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10-30-2009, 02:18 AM
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For me it wasn't a problem for me till now.. I always use to store my personal information till now.. I never ever came across any problems...
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10-30-2009, 04:47 AM
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Maybe it not a problem now but once is enough
u know,like people say its better to prevent than fix the consequences 
Internet is a dangerous place if u are not familiar with its threatening side
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10-31-2009, 05:17 AM
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As for me i don't usually save some important information online. I prefer some flash or disks, just to be on the safe side.
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10-31-2009, 06:03 AM
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If i want to store anything online, maybe i will need it where i know my pc or flash wont be available all the time, i will just upload it to my yahoomail instead of going somewhere else.
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