The following post is a sponsored review of Idrive Online Backup, a solution that I have been using for several years now to keep my data safe.

Let me jump directly into the features of Idrive:

1. Automatic selection of documents, pictures and videos when you first install it
2. Continuous data protection of modified files, compressed and secured via 128-bit SSL transfer and 256-bit AES encryption on storage
3. All files are versioned and never deleted unless you choose to do so
4. Quick search and restore features to get back those files you’ve lost
5. Data retrieval from any computer in any location in the world, even without the software installed
6. Timeline restore to get your files back from a specific point in time

Idrive plans begin at a generous 5GB completely for free. But, if you want more data you can upgrade for as little as $4.95/mo

Starting off is extremely easy, simply grab the account, download the software and you’re good to go.

Hit connect and you’re ready to begin the backup process.

If you think you’re stuck with that list, don’t worry. You have complete freedom to choose whichever folders you want. I have my entire development portfolio including my WordPress plugins backed up along with all important documents that are neatly filed in “My Documents” folder.

So, which backup software are you using. Have you used this one? What has your experience been so far?

If you have been using Google Reader, you would have noticed that it doesn’t work with Opera as of now.

However, there is a fix available for the same which is very easy to apply.

1. Get hold of reader.js and save it to some location on your PC, e.g. C:\Program Files\Opera\profile\cache4\
2. In Opera, visit http://www.google.com/reader/ and then right click in the page your Google Reader page, click Edit site preferences
3. Go to Scripting and see the box for choosing a file there? type the path to reader.js that you got in Step 1. i.e. C:\Program Files\Opera\profile\cache4\reader.js in our example.
4. Refresh the page.

Source: YesWhyYen and Tech-Buzz

Have just created a new category on this blog, which shall contain posts exclusively about some of the best apps out there.

And let me inaugurate this category with one such software I cannot live without. It goes by the name Notepad++ and it could very well have been called Notepad++++ !!

For those of you not aware of this great application, Notepad++ is a free Notepad replacement for Windows, which supports several programming languages.

It comes with a huge list of features:

• Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
• WYSIWYG
• User Defined Syntax Highlighting
• Auto-completion
• Multi-Document
• Multi-View
• Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
• Full Drag ‘N’ Drop supported
• Dynamic position of Views
• File Status Auto-detection
• Zoom in and zoom out
• Multi-Language environment supported
• Bookmark
• Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
• Macro recording and playback

You can get a detailed explanation of the features from their site.

Few things that I really can’t live without is the multi-document, syntax highlighting and the brace and indent guideline highlighting.

All my PHP and a good deal of HTML development work takes place exclusively in Notepad++.

Non-English users too have nothing to complaint about, because the software also comes in several languages.

You also fantastic Find & Replace features, including the very important Find in Files, which you can use if you are searching for a specific string in a whole folder. This can however do with some improment.

Download and start using Notepad++