Aaron’s Area: The Life of a Texas nerd in California.

Playing Munchkin with the family.

I’ve got a lot of bookworm friends and family who ask fairly often for book recommendations. So I’ll start putting a few of these up on my blog every so often. I highly suggest reading Brandon Sanderson’s “Mistborn”. I saw a video trailer for the third book in the trilogy “Hero of Ages” and actually…

I mentioned in an article about Dropbox vs. Google Drive about how files are recovered. It’s a simple thing to recover deleted files from Dropbox if you accidentally delete anything. Quick note, another problem I’ve run into was with some application conflicts on one of my laptops, it accidentally deleted all the files in my…

So you’ve got a good local backup, now you can move beyond that and backup nearly everything as you work, and synchronizing it across all your computers and devices. This is what I call a cloud backup. There’s nothing like your stuff being backed up nearly as quickly as you edit it. I’ve reviewed Dropbox…

I’ve talked about local backups before and how important they are. Let me take a moment to define a local backup before I move on to how to do this cheaply, easily, and quickly. So if you haven’t organized your stuff already go ahead and do that. Just make sure everything is split up by…

As an IT professional I have this near legal obligation to tell people to back their stuff up. I think the State of Texas actually tried passing a law that said, “Every conversation with a computer nerd shall include the phrase ‘back your stuff up’ and ‘Han shot first’.” The phrase, “backup your stuff”  really…

If you’ve never heard of Dropbox you’re missing out. Do you have two or more computers? A lot of people do, a laptop, desktop, work computer, media box, tablet, and cell phone. How do you get files between them? You could use a flash drive, or your network, or you could use a service like…

I saw a week or two ago that Blizzard was stress testing their Diablo 3 servers this weekend to make sure the multiplayer will work on release day. I think this is a cool idea considering Blizzard’s track record of not releasing games when they say they will. I’m making a prediction today (04/21/2012) that…

If you live in the Amarillo Area, or are having a lot of dropped internet problems, here’s some information for you. You will need to go get a DOCSIS 3.0 compatible cable modem. You can go to this page: http://aaronsarea.com/install-cable-modem/ on how to install it yourself. It’s super easy. On to my rant about Suddenlink……