Jane Talks Tech!

If you don't know, Twitter's a great way to get involved with various communities (photography, technology, etc). Another good use of Twitter has been giveaways. Just make sure that's NOT all you do on Twitter or if you must, set up a separate twitter account for participating in giveaways. In several giveaways based on Twitter, all you need to do is retweet a couple of sentences with a hashtag included. I've participated in non-twitterbased giveaways before and those are always more involved than just retweeting something. Here are the most common ways to enter giveaways that I've seen on ...

Update: See this updated post about the HP giveaway & what I would do with the gifts. :D...

So, despite bragging having several hard drives, I still lost data. Reason: I simply didn't bother to actually back up the data one I had the necessary tools. I'm sure the fact that it took several hours to perform the backup operation also factored in although that doesn't seem important in the light of the fact that I've lost some precious files. Right now, I've got a 320GB Iogear eGo drive, a 500GB Seagate FreeAgent Pro drive and a 250GB Seagate hard drive. The Iogear eGo is portable and goes with me everywhere. It's currently 75% full and I'm really ...