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So I just got a tax-refund check. Unexpected money, yay! Of course, it could go into savings, but what I really want to do is buy shiny tech goodies.
So! A question to those of you in possesion of external harddrives! I am thinking of getting one. Do you have any recommendations of particular products I should look at? Any you've used and really liked? Any I should definitely stay away from? I don't need a huge amount of space. I see there are some out there with, like, 300 GB, and I would never ever fill that much up. But I would like to be able to clear some of the junk off my PC and back up my files. Thoughts?
Also, I think I might be ready to cave and buy and Ipod. No, I've never had one. Yes, I am more behind-the-times than your grandmother. You don't want to know how long it took me to move from VHS to DVD. I am currently eyeing this one. It's awfully pretty.
In further Me vs. Technology news, my laptop has decided it won't create zipped files anymore. I don't know why. I installed WinRar a while back, and haven't tried to zip anything since, but apparantly the computer will no longer zip stuff now. I tried uninstalling WinRar, reinstalling it, and using other downloadable stuff, but nothing works. I think the compact.exe thingy is broken. Sigh. I have no idea how to fix this, so all my file-zipping may have to be done from my desktop from now on, unless someone out there has a brilliant idea.
So! A question to those of you in possesion of external harddrives! I am thinking of getting one. Do you have any recommendations of particular products I should look at? Any you've used and really liked? Any I should definitely stay away from? I don't need a huge amount of space. I see there are some out there with, like, 300 GB, and I would never ever fill that much up. But I would like to be able to clear some of the junk off my PC and back up my files. Thoughts?
Also, I think I might be ready to cave and buy and Ipod. No, I've never had one. Yes, I am more behind-the-times than your grandmother. You don't want to know how long it took me to move from VHS to DVD. I am currently eyeing this one. It's awfully pretty.
In further Me vs. Technology news, my laptop has decided it won't create zipped files anymore. I don't know why. I installed WinRar a while back, and haven't tried to zip anything since, but apparantly the computer will no longer zip stuff now. I tried uninstalling WinRar, reinstalling it, and using other downloadable stuff, but nothing works. I think the compact.exe thingy is broken. Sigh. I have no idea how to fix this, so all my file-zipping may have to be done from my desktop from now on, unless someone out there has a brilliant idea.
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On the WinRar front: this happened to me. You may have already tried this, but in case not, right click on the folder you want to compress, choose "Add to archive", then, when the WinRar dialog box pops up, choose "zip" instead of "rar" as file type. It's a button option. I can get it to compress to zips that way, but no other combo of clicking will work. Arrrrrrrgh.
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Also, got volumes 2 and 3 of Sex Pistols up for you, and I'm working on 4 and 5!
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