You can select to either back up, restore or synchronize backups. Handy Backup provides options to backup files, folders, databases, FTP locations, disk images, Outlook, mobile phones and many more options.

You can either back up to local drive or to FTP location, disks or even online services.

Once you have scheduled the back ups, you can view them in the main screen, from where you can modify or delete the tasks.

What makes Handy backup Pro a really useful back up tool is the number of options it provides for back up. It can back up files, folders, emails, programs & program settings, Widows Registry, Website. You can also back up selected word documents using the filtering options provided in the tool.

Some of the features of Handy Backup;

• Scheduled backup, restoration and synchronization of your folders and files;
• Disk image backup – ability to create an exact copy of your hard drive including the operating system, all applications and settings, so the system can be quickly restored after a system failure;
• Versatile choice of supported storage media including CD, DVD, LAN drives and FTP/SFTP servers;
• Capability of running as Windows service, which allows executing tasks on specified time not requiring the user to be logged on;
• Integrated ZIP-compression, password-protection and encryption of your data;
• Option of one-click backup of Outlook Express, Windows registry, My Documents and other common types of data;
• Detailed logging and e-mail notification of all processes.

It also provides plugins to back up Thunderbird, Firefox, Yahoo Messenger, Winamp and Photoshop. Overall we were impressed by the features it had to offer. You can download the trial version of Handy Backup Pro or enter in our giveaway to win it free.

Now coming to the giveaway, we are giving away 3 full licenses of the Pro version priced $99 each. To be eligible to win, you need to tweet this post with the URL to this post and comment on this post saying where is your preferred location of saving the back up. The giveaway will be available till Oct 15, 2009. We’ll announce the winners on Oct 16th.

So what are you waiting for, start tweeting and win this exciting software.

1. Office Word:

Although there is no editing feature available for Word, there is a word viewer whcih has the ability to print online documents.

2. Excel:

If document is shared, it shows the people currently editing the particular document in the right hand bottom corner.

3. PowerPoint:

4. One Note:

Overall We liked the new Office Web Apps with Excel getting the maximum editing features and when compared to Google Spreadsheets, it does have some great features. The Web Interface is very similar to Office 2010 desktop edition with tabbed interface and the neatly arranged ribbon. Office Web Apps works well on Chrome, IE 8, Safari and Firefox. Excel has basic functionalities, including text and cell formatting, inserting a Table, and also adding in Excel formulas and functions. PowerPoint does not have a save button as the changes are automatically saved.

Clearly this is not a complete and full fledged version of Office Web Apps, but the final version is definitely going to have some great features.

Note: We will be giving away five copies of Acronis True Image 2009, each worth $49.90 to our readers. Keep reading on how to win it.

In the back up options, you can create an image of your computer which will back up the complete disk and partitions. Apart from this, you can also create back up of system state, email and also applications.

Once you select the type of back up, you can completely configure the back up settings like schedule back up, select the back up type (incremental or full), remove selected file extensions from back up, password protect the back up with up to 256 bit encryption. You can store the back up into USB drive, external hard disk or to a networked drive.

Acronis True Image also allows you to clone the  disk by copying a partition to another hard disk. You can make reserve copies of your backups and save them on a network drive, or a USB storage device.

In the utilities section, there is a file shredder and also system clean up utilities.

Overall Acronis True Image 2009 does a great job in system back up and restore and definitely worth the money. You can download the trial version from here.

Give Away:

Now coming to the giveaway, you can win a free copy of Acronis True Image 2009 worth $49.90 each. There are five copies to be given away.

To enter the contest, all you need is to Tweet about this contest and submit a valid comment (with the twitter status link) and also say how often do you take a back up of PC. Please use a valid email ID as the winner will get the license and download link in the email.

The contest closes June 7th Sunday and we will announce the winners on June 8th.

The interface of Mufin Player is really good and it has some great features as well. AutoPlaylist is a feature which enables you to you create playlists at a click without tiresome searching for tracks. Just select a track, click “Create playlist”, and Mufin will build a playlist with tracks that match musically from your music collection.

Mufin player’s has another feature called soundsort function, you can sort your music collection according to the sound of your music and keep track of the songs that match each other. This way, you’ll always be able to find the track with the right sound as quickly as possible.

Mufin audioid automatically completes the information in your MP3 files so that you can always keep an eye on what’s available in your music collection and apart from this you can also edit information manually as well.

With the properties window, you can get detailed information on track edit tags, extension, artist details and ratings.

The Mufin player allows any number of audio CDs to be imported and added to your digital music collection or portable player. You can select whether you would like to import a CD as MP3 or in another format like WAV, WMA or OGG Vorbis. Mufin player also has a feature to burn playlist in CD.

Overall Mufin is a good player with great features and works even on Windows 7. You need to register with the site for better use of the player.

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Safari 4 beta has totally new interface with new tab management and the tabs have been moved to the top of the browser similar to Google’s Chrome.

When you open a new tab, you can view speed dial links or also called as top sites as thumbnails which are configurable. It provides a highly visual way to sweep through your sites and bookmarks in the form of Cover Flow. Cover Flow displays your bookmarks and history as large graphical previews, so you can pick out a website instantly.

Searching the history is also much easier with previews of websites opened avaiable.

You can zoom in web pages easily with the toolbar which can be enabled from the toolbar menu.

The bookmarks bar has also been revamped and thumbnails are available for bookmarks menu as well.

In the navigation side, there are new features and improvements. Tabs can be rearranged, opened in new window and also be merged into one window. Safari allows you to organize tabs by dragging and dropping. Movable tabs give you the power to organize your sites exactly the way you want. If you close any tab by accident, then you can recover it by choosing Reopen Last Closed Window from the History menu.

Safari 4 beta also has built-in spell checking and built-in grammar checking. It also feature private browsing. When opening websites, we could not find any considerable speed in the load time when compared to Firefox or IE8.

Overall Safari 4 Beta has lots of features and a fresh new look. The improvements are really worth trying and Safari 4 works even on Windows 7.

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For uploading files online and sharing them, first you need to create an account with SugarSync. Once you activate the account, download the SugarSync Manager for Windows or for Mac (in Beta). Install the application on you PC and then login to SugarSync with your details. You can select the name of your PC and then synchronize with your account.

Once this is done, you can start adding files to your online account. To do this click on “Add/Edit Sync Folders” button and then click Add. Select the files and folders you wish you upload to your account and then click OK and the selected files will be uploaded.

Whenever you make any changes to the files uploaded, then it automatically gets synchronized if you are online and SugarSync is installed on your PC. The updating process was very quick, the moment I clicked save after modifying the file, it was updated in my online account.

Another great feature of SugarSync is that it creates a folder named “Magic Briefcase” in your documents folder. The feature of this folder is that, if you save or add any files to this folder it will be uploaded automatically to your online account.

You can also access the files through browser using the url provided. The url provided will be signupname.sugarsync.com, where signupname is the name you used for registration with SugarSync. You can upload files and view Magic briefcase through web browser.

You can also access your files from an internet enabled Smartphone or you can directly type the url m.sugarsync.com to access files from mobile phone.

Pricing Details:

Initially you can sign up for free account which gives you 10GB of space for 45 days, after that you need to chose a paid plan. Paid plans starts from 10GB of storage to 250GB. the basic plan with 10GB online storage can be purchased for 24.99$ yearly fees. You can sign up for an account from here.

Life Rocks 2.0 SugarSync accounts Giveaway:

SugarSync has offered three 30GB account for one year each worth $49.99 free for our readers. You can be one of the 3 lucky people to get the free account. The procedure is as follows;

1.Sign up for SugarSync free account.

2. Leave a comment on this blog stating what you plan to do with this free account and how you are going to use it in case you win it.

3. Make sure that you comment on this blog using the same email ID which you used for signing up with SugarSync.

4. I’ll announce the 3 winners who makes the best and compelling comment and their accounts will be converted to 30GB one year subscription.

The contest will run for one week and winners will be announced on May 26th and dont forget to Subscribe to this blog for the updates.

NB: Feed Readers, sorry for the double posting, the first article disappeared mysteriously from the blog.

Update: The Winners of this Giveaway are Harris, Chris and Pavan Kumar. Their accounts will be updated to free 30 GB account.

Combining price and features, K810i is a great phone, although the camera is 3.2MP, the photo quality is in par with 5MP cameras. If video recording is your priority, the choice would be Viewty or N82.

If you like to add in any personal experiences, do share it in comments.

1 USD =39 INR (approx)

Currently Soashable supports only MSN, AIM and Yahoo and also has less features compared to Meebo and other services. Soashable also does not support file transfers and chat rooms.

I tried out Soashable and it definitely looks promising especially when you can edit their code to suit your purpose.

Soashable (Project code)

Source

Dropbox is different from other services in many aspects;

• Dropbox supports version control so that even if someone modifies the file you share, you get a copy of original file. Dropbox maintains versions of each changes made.
• If you delete a file from your Dropbox folder, you can view it online and bring those files back with a couple of clicks
• View the contents of your Dropbox folder online.
• 5GB of free online storage
• Faster way of sharing files.

How does Dropbox work?

First of all you need to download and install the software from Dropbox website (invite required, please leave comment if you want to try out Dropbox). After installation, it will create a folder in your documents called “My Dropbox”. Now sync your PC with the website and your account. Once this is done, all the folders created online are available in “My Dropbox”. If you need to create a folder, do it the normal way we create folder in Windows. The newly created folders are synchronised with the folders online. Adding files is much more easier, all you need is to copy the file to the folder in your system. Dropbox synchronises and uploads the files online.

When you want to share a file, all you need is to add the files to the shared folder in your PC, the files will be updated in all your friends dropbox automatically. Isn’t it simple? No need to login to any website and download it. You can also see which folders are shared with the icon on the folders.

How to Share folder?

Well this is again simple process, click on the small arrow icon to the side of folders and select share.

Enter the email address and sent the invite to the person whom you want to share files.

Currently Dropbox is by invite only and in case you like to try out Dropbox, do leave a comment and we’ll be glad to sent you invites. Dropbox seems to be best service for sharing and storing files online and looks promising. So what are you waiting for, leave a comment and try out Dropbox.

Thanks to Ashish for the invite.

Note: I have closed the comments section as Dropbox invites are finished.

You can activate your Gmail and Yahoo! Mail accounts in Flock and Flock lets you easily share webpages, images and articles with a simple click-to-compose share function.

By popular demand Picasa photo service has been added to the available services in Flock 1.1. Upload up to 1,000 photos at one time to Picasa and view them. Flock is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

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You can also check out this article on Flock.