Trick or Treat?
Halloween goes high tech this year..

Backup your data and avoid giving yourself a fright!!
It’s a fact of life that data gets corrupted and hard drives crash.
Unfortunately it’s not something that people usually think about until it’s too late….

There are a variety of ways to back up your data, the key is finding one that works for you. For example, buying an external hard drive allows you to keep your data on hand, but if your apartment floods or burns down you’re in trouble. Online storage is a great alternative, however, some people are uncomfortable with this because they are worried about privacy issues or the longevity of the web company.

Things to consider are: level of expertise amount of money/time file sizes security location Comparisons between and lists of online services: Mashable List ToMuse Ultimate list Articles: NYTimes Online: STATE OF THE ART, Fewer Excuses For Not Doing A PC Backup Wired: Back Up Your Data on a Windows PC Wired: Back Up Your Data on a Mac Life Hacker: Geek to Live: Automatically back up your hard drive (PC)

A couple of weeks ago, I had posted links to a couple of Powerpoints that discussed ways to improve PowerPoint presentations. One of the suggestions that was given involved using images with very little text on slides to convey a message. After all, you are giving a presentation so that your audience can hear what you have to say- not for them to read your slides!

So where can you get pictures from?? There are many different websites to search for them, but my favorite way to find photos is to use Flickr Creative Commons. Other websites that I like to use are Google Images or SXC Stock Photos.

Some things to remember…. Avoid copyright infringement! Always make sure that downloading and using graphics is allowed. When in doubt, contact the author for permission or don’t download at all.

To avoid this hassle, I prefer to use images from the Creative Commons section of Flickr. There are several different types of Creative Commons Licenses and you can read about them on the Creative Commons website.