Friday, October 28, 2016

Learning the Scary Technology

Boo!

I know technology can be scary. It's expensive; you don't want to break this expensive thing. But the only way to truly learn about your smart phone, your new computer, your tablet, what have you, is to use it. To explore it. To try new things with it.

Yes, you can break it. But there are ways to fix it again.

How to protect yourself.

Backup.

Your iPhone can be synced/backed up with iTunes. Put iTunes on your home computer. Plug in your iPhone to the computer and sync. This will back up your photos, contacts, and apps. Do the same with your iPad. Sync monthly if not more. If your device gets stuck, you can restore to a previous point.

Your Android can be used like a flash drive. Plug it in and copy your files to your computer.

Both offer Dropbox/Google Drive syncing of photos. Do that too. Better to have your info in more places than less.

You can also backup your computers.
I like the software SyncBack. It offers both a free version and a pro-version.
This will automatically back up your files that you decide, when you schedule it.

Windows machines offer back-ups that make images to backup.
Macs have time machine that backs up an image of your computer.
A computer image is like a snapshot of your computer at a certain point. When you restore to an image, your computer is returned to that point. No extra setup or installing. Computer Image backup of course take more time than file backups.

So, if you take precautions, you can play with your new technology. Learn it. Love it. Teach it to your patrons. ;-)

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