The top ten reasons for using online backup

There are many reasons why online backups are now a much better solution than manual backup procedures using external hard drives and USB memory sticks. Here are the top ten benefits of choosing Online Backup OLB top 10 reasons

If you want to try out our Online Backup solution with a 14 day free trial just give us a call on 07852 159092 or drop us an email at chris@aslcomputerservices.co.uk

Chris
ASL Computer Services

XMAS and New Year offer

For quite some time ASL has been a reseller of the very good online backup solution called Clunk Click from Risc IT Group.

From now until the 31st Jan 2016 we are giving away free 60 day trials of this online backup solution so you can see for yourself just how good it is.

We will install this on your PC, via a remote control session, free of charge and it will be fully functional for a full 60 days. At the end of the trial it will cease to backup your files and you can just uninstall the program. Or if you prefer you can keep the backup system for the reduced price of £7.20 + VAT per Gigabyte, per annum.

We have quite a few customers who use this backup solution, and the typical account size is 3 to 6 Gb. A 6Gb backup account will end up costing less than £1 a week including VAT, not a lot for peace of mind.

If you want to take up this offer just give me a call on 07852 159092

Chris

Keeping you 15GB (or 30GB) of OneDrive storage

Microsoft are reducing the free storage for long standing OneDrive users from 15GB to 5GB. However it is possible to keep the full 15GB (and the 15Gb Camera Roll bonus) if you take action now.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/11/9890966/microsoft-onedrive-free-storage

Backup: My Pictures

We all take lots of digital photos, and they mainly end up in the “My Pictures” folder on your laptop or desktop PC. That’s great because you can view them on your PC screen whenever you like. But what happens when your PC hard drive fails? We get lots of calls from customers that have lost years and years worth of photos. Often we can recover some or all of the digital pictures, but it’s a time consuming, and therefore costly, process.

It’s much better to backup your digital photographs automatically. There are a number of cloud storage providers that allow you to automatically backup copies of your photos to their cloud storage for a small charge, or some are even free. This means that it’s not a disaster when your hard drive fails. Take a look at Amazon, Dropbox, Flickr, Google, and Onedrive. My personal favourites at the moment are Google for backing up from my desktop PC and Onedrive for my tablet / smartphone pictures.

So don’t delay, backup your digital photos before your hard drive fails.

It’s easy to setup but if you do need help just give us a call.

Genealogy

Many people enjoy tracing their family history or family trees, otherwise known as genealogy. Here are some of the best free genealogy applications.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-genealogy-family-tree-software.htm

Photo viewer software

Photo viewer software, here are some good applications for viewing your digital photographs. What’s your favourite app for viewing your photos?

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-digital-image-viewer.htm

File copying utilities

Which are the best file copying utilities, here are some suggestions? Let us know in the comments which file copying utilities you use.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-file-copy-utility.htm