February 9, 2009
Google Privacy Concerns
Ever since the Google Street View program was released in May 2007, many people have been complaining about the privacy issues associated with it. Apart from seeing their houses on Google's Web site, people have reported seeing themselves on the Internet as well. Now, I'd say that's taking it a bit too far. If you agree, here’s how you can keep your home and yourself a little cialis daily 5mg more private!
1.) If you don’t want your house to show up in the Google Street View program because of privacy issues, all you have to do is click on the Report a Concern button, shown below.
2.) Next, choose Privacy Concerns for the reason why you don’t want the image shown in Street View.
3.) Now, describe why you don’t want the image in Street View and then enter in your e-mail address.
4.) Next, move the Street View image until the red rectangle is centered over your property.
That's it! Google will then review your concerns and delete the image if they agree with you. Yes!
It’s been a mantra forever. Something that you know you should do. It runs the fine line between “it needs to be done today, but I’ll do it tomorrow”, between bits being there and then being gone forever. It’s backing up your 
It happens every day: a hard drive fails, a virus wipes out data, a simple mistake wipes out years of memories. Let’s face it, though information can be broken down to bytes and then to bits – when it’s gone – when it’s REALLY, REALLY gone, that empty feeling hits you like a sledge hammer and you realize that it’s all gone – and that you never did a backup. But, like many, you may be confused by the array of backup options available, and may even be a bit confused about what a backup is.
In the olden days (like 15 to 20 years ago) backing up was commonly done on tape, a duplicate hard drive or even floppy discs (yes, I still have 45 or so floppy discs floating around in a long forgotten corner of my garage containing my 
a terrific way to back up important files quickly and easily. If you have one of these operating systems, I highly recommend checking these utilities out and seeing if they suit your needs. If you have Window XP Professional, there is also a backup utility built in (also available on Windows XP Home Edition, though not loaded by default). Of course, if you’re the adventurous type, you can back up files manually (quick and easy to do with devices such as a USB flash drive where you literally copy the files you want over).
If you’re like most people, you probably are just fine if you have to restore a system back to an original configuration using the original restore partitions or install disks – but what you really want to save is the important stuff. Stuff like music, videos, games, documents and (very important for many people) photos. With nearly everyone having 
With One Touch Backup (sometimes abbreviated OTB), you literally touch a button on the external drive that you plugged into your PC and your files are backed up – neat, simple and quick. With continuous backup, you set it up and forget about it – it’s done for you automatically. Another consideration would be an offsite storage solution (very helpful in situations, 
such as a house fire, where your backed up data could literally burn up with the original PC). High speed internet and free and pay backup services such as 
Again, while there are other backup techniques we didn’t touch on in this Tech Tip, using some or all of these backup suggestions (using the programs already built into your operating system, using an external hard drive and using a web based, off-site backup solution), you’ll find that there really is no more excuse for putting off backing up the important files on your computer, easily, simply and regularly. You find that backing up really isn’t that hard to do.
