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An Ode To My Power Supply Unit + Setup Shot
There comes a time at any man's life, where he enters their workroom oh-my-god-kids-what-is-going-on-room and something smelled funny. Smells metallic. Burning. My socks on fire? No.... What is it?...
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Seven Deadly Backup Sins And Seven Heavenly Ways For Redemption
About a month ago my computer's Power Supply Unit died on me. While changing that power unit was both cheap and got me banging my head against the computer case technically effortless, it got me...
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Lightroom Tip: Backing Up Huge Lightroom Files
When searching for a backup solution I was most fascinated with the option of online storage. My major concern was the huge catalog files that Lightroom creates. I even listed the huge catalog files a...
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CloudPlug – Backup Solution Review
As you may recall my computer kinda crushed on me last year. I've been looking for a backup solution ever since (in the meantime, there is not a single component in my computer that was not replaced,...
View ArticleCopying Large Video File Across Devices/Drives? This Is How To Make Sure You...
Whether your are a professional photographer or an aspiring photo enthusiast a day will come, when you will need to transfer all your valuable multimedia materials from one storage location to another!...
View ArticlePSA: Have Photos Backed Up On CDs? You May Wanna Move Them!
To be honest, I have not backed up images on CDs for over 10 years now. But back in the days when a D70 RAW file was about 5MB it made sense. You could fit about 140 RAW photos on one CD. Or if you...
View ArticleStreamNation Introduces Shutter, an iOS Photo App Offering Unlimited Cloud...
With how much of a push companies are making these days toward cloud-based storage, is it really a wonder that phones are still being sold with an infuriatingly small 16 gigabytes of space? When it...
View ArticleBackup Workflow using BitTorrent Sync and Crashplan
Backups! We all need them, we hardly make ‘em! Over the years, as a digital artist, I have on occasion lost bodies of work. I lost them when building a new PC, I lost them when my drive crashed, fell,...
View ArticleDropbox Lightroom Catalog Sync – How To Set it Up
One of the biggest issues with Adobe Lightroom (maybe the only issue that is worth worrying about) is that Lightroom was built to be used on one computer by a single user. However, if you use Dropbox...
View Article4 Ways You Should Be Storing And Backing Up Your Photos If You Want To Do It...
If you’ve ever lost an entire catalog of images to hard drive failure, you probably know how important it is to properly and securely back up your data. If you haven’t run into such a speed bump just...
View ArticleHow To Back Up Your Memory Cards to Endless Storage on Field
If you a long time reader you know that we take backups very seriously. We usually talk about the backups you have to do to your data at home, but it is equally important to backup while on the field....
View ArticleThought You Can Use Amazon’s Unlimited Storage Plan for Your Business? Think...
Amazon announced a couple of new Cloud Drive storage plans yesterday, with one of them offering unlimited storage space for photos priced at just $12 a year. Considering that other cloud services...
View ArticleEasily Back Up Your Memory Cards To External Drives With This OTG Cable Hack
When you shoot multiple cards, usually the workflow is to unload them once you get back to home base. This is usually enough, but if you want to be absolutely on the safe side (or just want to empty...
View ArticleWorld’s Largest Hard Drive Offers Photographers 16TB of Storage
As photographers, backing up our images has sort of become a passion, and so it should. The catch-22 in the situation is that hard drives (the ones with the little DJ in there spinning laser-read...
View ArticleHow To Automate Your Backup With NAS, Dropbox, Gdrive, OneDrive And Many Others
In this post I’ll explain the structure and scheme that I personally use for backup. It’s not the cheapest, not the easiest, and perhaps not the safest method, but after trying several options, I...
View ArticleAmazon Now Lets You Backup 50 Terabytes of Data With a Sci-Fi Suitcase
Not many of us have 50TB of data that we want to back up. But the creative amongst us who shoot lots of footage or want to backup all their 50,000 RAWs from a timelapse project now have a fast and easy...
View ArticleWhen The Cloud Evaporates: Copy.com is Shutting Down
The cloud has gained popularity in recent years, and is often recommended as a way to store and backup your photos, but what do you do when the service kicks the bucket? That’s exactly what millions of...
View ArticleTelevision series ‘The Middle’ shows why making prints of your photographs is...
Two years ago, we asked whether or not you keep printed photographs anymore. Surprisingly, a great deal of you did, with 64% of readers responding that they do indeed print out and keep physical copies...
View ArticleThe Business Cost of Data Storage for Creative Professionals
In my recent article “Delete Your Sh!t: Why You Should Trash Most of Your Photos” I made a case to encourage photographers to permanently delete a large majority of their image files in order to...
View ArticleQuick Tip: How to not lose all your photos if your phone dies
Raise your hand if you ever lost/bricked/killed an iPhone or an Android*. Raise your other hand if that phone has lots of photos that you will never see again. That could be quite sad, and I have a...
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