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Have You Been Able To Back Up Your iPhone 5 Since Updating To iOS 6.0.1?

So something very peculiar is going on with my iPhone 5 — I haven’t been able to successfully back up since updating to 6.0.1. A couple others on staff have encountered it too.


LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt Review: The Best Thunderbolt Hard Drive

If your computer has a Thunderbolt drive, odds are it has been neglected. Some external storage options are good, but there isn’t any particular one that is a no-brainer. Until now, that is. LaCie’s vivid orange drive is the best way to back up files, superfast.


LaCie Puts Thunderbolt On Its Portable, Rugged External SSD

Now this is what we were hoping for from Thunderbolt. LaCie just stuck a Thunderbolt port on its USB 3.0 Rugged series of external drives, meaning it’s now a tiny, indestructible speed monster.


Western Digital’s My Passport Edge Fits 500GB Of Storage In Your Pocket

If your MP3 collection has maxed out your ultrabook’s SSD right out of the box, Western Digital has a pair of new slim external drives designed to complement your laptop’s sleek profile. There’s one for Mac and one for PC.


What Service Do You Use To Upload And Store Your Photos On The Internet?

I know. For most people it’s Facebook. Go out, get drunk, snap pics, upload, tag friends, Like. Repeat. Everybody does this. But I don’t want this. Flickr was a solution once upon a time but Flickr is, um, not what it used to be. How about Picasa? Something else?


Would You Pay Less For Backup Storage You Can’t Access Immediately?

Amazon Glacier has arrived in the form of super-cheap storage for data that is “infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable”. That’s quite different from the online storage solutions we’re come to know.


This Floppy Autoloader Will Archive All Those Floppy Disks You Almost Certainly Don’t Have Any More

I’m something of a retro technology hoarder myself, so I’ve got plenty of appreciation for hacks that enable you to sort through your old stuff. There probably aren’t too many Giz readers out there with five thousand floppies any more… but if you do, have we got a gadget for you!


HTC Is Deleting All Its Users’ Backups

HTC has announced that it is going to shut down its half-arsed backup service, HTCsense.com, to replace it with “new and improved services”. But if you have any data stored there, download it real quick — after April 30, it’ll be deleted for good.


LaCie Little Big Disk Review: The Future Is Shockingly Super Fast

The Little Big Disk is simply the fastest way to back up your data, but it’s also, finally, a delivery on Apple’s promise that Thunderbolt would do crazy things to our tech lives. That promise came true.


Everything You Need To Know About Using iTunes Match

We’ve known about iTunes Match for a while, but it just went live today in the US. The $US25/year music service promises to not only store your iTunes purchases in the cloud, but to back up your non-iTunes tracks as well. So how does it work exactly?


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