You, Phones and PC’s – Are You in Sync ?

Today is Part Four; and it takes us Back Inside the maintenance system; with tools and tips to help.

we want to get the work savers, and sync masters to put our data in align; as well as make it easier to just do what we do, daily. let them do their work; While We Also Do Our Work. That’s Synchronicity. it’s been proven that a properly sync’d phone and pc add to the confidence and cool factor immensely.

we all need to keep our data in Sync, Right ?

First lets check out the phone goodies :

Take a Look at These Updates for the IPhone and 3G

• iPhone 3GS Complete Feature Guide
  The ‘S’ is for Speed! The main feature updates include a better camera, faster 3G support, Nike+, longer battery life, and a compass.
• ‘Find My iPhone’ Lets You Ping, Remotely Erase Your Lost Phone (If You Have MobileMe)
  They’re awesome features, but no one has MobileMe.
• At Long Last, the iPhone Gets Voice Commands
  You can tell it who to call, tell it what music to play, ask it who’s already playing, and tell it to “play more music like this” for a little help from the Genius.
• 8GB iPhone 3G Will Sell for $99 Alongside 3GS
  The price for an old 3G iPhone’s not looking too shabby.

Opera 9.7 Beta Brings Turbo Mode to Windows Mobile Phones [Downloads]

By Kevin Purdy on Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile: Opera’s released an early, partially-featured beta of its Mobile browser that brings the server-side browsing speed-ups of Opera Turbo to touchscreen phones.

Our phone-happy compatriots at Gizmodo give the Turbo feature of Opera Mobile 9.7 Beta a qualified thumbs up, noting that it brings considerable reduction to web page load speeds with “not that bad” image compression. Still, while Turbo is on, the browser itself gets a bit flakier. Opera itself notes in release notes that downloads just won’t work with Turbo enabled, and fans of Opera’s Widgets have to turn off Turbo when switching over to them.

Google Gears functionality and full Flash support aren’t in this beta either, but are expected. You can check out what’s already happening in Opera Mobile in this explainer video:

Opera Mobile is a free download for Windows Mobile 5/6 phones powered by touch screens. Be sure to read the release notes at the link below, as keyboard input and other issues have been noted with certain phones.

This is not New, but still a great reminder of the things you can do on the go with Google, For Free. Save a Buck and Stay in Sync.

The Maintenance could have been easier, if we had initially been using this  lil nifty tool. NasBackup, is one everybody should have and use nightly. it will prevent you having to do these special ops maintenance jobs, such as the one I’m presently engulfed in.  just think, you set it up to back up your new data to either your network, or even the same machine. it’s the best way to handle preventing data loss and confusion.

NasBackup Makes Incremental Backups Easy [Downloads]

By Jason Fitzpatrick on Windows

Windows only: NasBackup is an easy to use interface for the powerful rsync backup utility.

You can use NasBackup right out of the box and easily schedule backups from your machine to another machine on your network. Underneath the GUI is still all the power of rsync, if you’re familiar with rsync commands you can edit the main.phase file in the NasBackup directory to including any rsync tweaks you like. Even if you never get under the hood and mess around however, NasBackup is quite capable. Once you select the data you want backed up, the destination on the remote computer, and tell NasBackup how frequently to back the data up, from there out it works in the background incrementally backing up your data to the remote disk. If you’re interested in shopping around for a backup solution, make sure to check out our previous Hive Five on best backup tools. NasBackup is open source, Windows only. Thanks Mike!

And finally, what are the most dangerous words to search for ?

have you ever considered the damage you can do to your PC or Smartphone searching for certain terms ? and then the result of finding them ? it can be a real mess to clean up after.

take a look at this,

The Web’s Most Dangerous Search Terms [Malware]

By Jason Fitzpatrick on Securty

Many people use the “I don’t search for warez or porn” defense when it comes to avoiding malicious software and links online. It turns out that the most dangerous search terms are often much more benign.

McAfee, of the anti-virus fame, had their researchers comb through thousands of popular keyword searches. After analyzing the frequency with which they found malicious software at each link they compiled the results. Surprisingly the common “bad” searchs that people associate with a guarantee of getting malicious software like searching for pirated software or pornography rank fairly low on the risk scale. Apparently the people behind malicious sites like to cast a wide net and use things like lyrics to popular songs and free screen savers to lure people in.

Check out the white paper at the link below for the full charts and more information about the study. Extra paranoid now? Make sure to check out our Hive Five on best malware removal tools and best anti-virus scanners.