We don’t particularly like desktop software around here — sort of a company policy — and neither do most average users, based on our experience. Still, the desktop isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and we still have need for plenty of desktop software. Software that needs to be install, configured, and updated routinely. Ugh. Fortunately [...]

Gmail offers a tremendous amount of storage space for your email and the confidence of the Google name, but the same data vulnerabilities exist. If anything happens to their systems, your data is toast. You should always ensure you have direct, personally accessible backups of all your data; blindly relying on the systems of other [...]

If you want to backup all your email online to your Fwd:Vault account, Outlook 2007 makes it fairly easily. Here’s an example of a basic rule that will automatically forward copies of all messages with an attachment to Fwd:Vault. Open Outlook, then choose Tools > Rules and Alerts In the new window, click New Rule [...]