#data

Friday Fury: Data hoarding control freak

Collecting hoards of information about every single aspect of your client and business can slow down your growth and the relationship with your client.

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How to keep your data safe

I often talk about data safety and how to store your data reliably, and in today’s video, I’ll tell you a short story about a friend’s data woes and how you can avoid the same issue.

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Backup is great, but offline is better!

We all know that having a backup of our data is essential. So why is it that when you’re posting something long-form, you use an online tool/platform that could easily not save/update or store your data correctly?!

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How secure is your client’s data?

Your data is critical and should be secure and away from prying eyes, hacks and phishing attempts. But have you considered the client and project data you hold for your clients?

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How to keep your Apple Mac secure

There are many ways you can keep your Apple Mac secure. In this video, I’ll go through the most important and give some tips on how to keep your data safe, secure and away from prying eyes.

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Always secure your Apple data and passwords

Keeping our data and passwords safe is vital in today’s world. We live online, so whether we like it or not, we need to sure our data is safe should be as important as keeping our keys and wallets safe when we’re out and about.

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Always be backing up!

When you buy a new hard drive, make sure you buy a second one so you can back up your data.

This should scare you

After 30 years in tech, I’ve encountered countless issues ranging from broken hard drives to stolen computers. I’m still astonished that people generally do not take better care of their data.

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Keeping your passwords safe

Keeping your passwords safe should be high on your list when it comes to your tech. Unfortunately, I’ve seen some very inventing, alas not so secure, ways my clients file their passwords.

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Make IT transferable

Making things simple for yourself is the best way to create time. So making things transferable and reproducible will help you minimise your frustrations.

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Know where your data is

Help is available if we know what the issue is and how to resolve it together.

Unfortunately, it seems that some don’t know where things are, so it makes it really difficult to fix what needs to be done simply.

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Backing up explained

Many make the mistake of thinking that just having data on iCloud that it’s ‘backed up’ but that’s far from the truth. So I’ll be going over the best ways to back up your data, so everything is safe and sound.

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Once it's gone, it's gone

For the past few years, Apple has created smaller MacBooks; with that, the SSDs have also gotten smaller. But now the SSD, RAM and CPU are on one chip, so if your Mac dies, your data does too!

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iCloud is not a back up

Many make the mistake of thinking that just using iCloud will save them from data loss. This is a huge mistake. iCloud is a syncing service and not a backup service.

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All is not lost

Losing your Mac is hard, but losing your data is unimaginable.

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Talking about, backup again!

I may sound like a broken record about backing up your data, but it’s so important.

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If you lose your Mac, would you be worried?

Losing your MacBook is not fun, but you can replace it. It’s the data that’s more important and something you need to think about more. Here’s a story of one of my clients.

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This could be why your Mac running slow

So, how is your Mac doing? This week, I’ve already had two clients of mine with the same issue: Slow Mac! In this episode I walk through why your Mac might be running slow, and how to resolve it so you can have a new fresh Mac back on your desk… or lap ;-)

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