The Digital Jedi's Words

Nowadays, it’s not uncommon for most of us to store our important business and personal files in digital format, whether these items are documents, music files, photographs, or any other type of media. However, just like that shoe box of old photos can be damaged from being stored in a leaky basement or that printed copy of a 50-page term paper can be ruined by a spilled cup of coffee, it only takes one careless mistake or an accidental hard drive failure to destroy these precious digital files. That’s why it’s extremely important to make sure that you back up your files on a regular basis.

To this end, there are a number of backup and restore utilities available for the Windows operating system. Each of these applications has a wide variety of user options and features. The one that I’m going to focus on in this review is Easeus Todo Backup, a free backup and restore utility developed by the same company as Easeus Partition Manager. We’ll take a closer look at Todo, concentrating particularly on its range of features and ease of use.

EASEUS Todo Backup Highlight Features:

* Backup entire system partition including the system state and all files to an image   file.
* Backup whole disk including the operating system and all data to an image file.
* Restore backup up image within minutes.
* Create a bootable disk function based on Linux to restore the system partition.
* Create a WinPE based Bootable CD which can support Windows 7 and Hardware Raid, etc.
* Restore system partition from Bootable CD/DVD.
* Clone disk to another one with fast file-by-file clone method.
* Mount the backup image file as a virtual physical partition to explore or copy files in it.
* Unmount the virtual partition.
* Check backup image file to make sure the system state, disk or partition can be restored successfully.

The EASEUS Todo Backup is able to run on Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server.

Easeus TODO Backup supports major Windows systems, like Windows 2000 Professional/XP/Vista/7 and Windows Server 2000/2003/2008.

So, EASEUS Todo Backup no doubt is a good data backup software that helps novices one (even without having IT knowledge) to backup their entire system and important data.

I’m here today to start a new idea I have been pondering for a long time, even though I review tech I also love going to the movies, hence the name ThE DiGiTaL JeDi.  So My first review will be of the movie Edge of Darkness.  It’s been 8 years since Mel Gibson last graced the big screen, and yet, somehow it doesn’t feel like he’s been away all that long. Maybe it’s because in the meantime he’s managed to direct two impressive and uncompromising films, and he also found the time to get arrested for drunk driving. Still, a lot of people have been talking about Edge of Darkness like it’s some big comeback, and they weren’t sure whether he had it in him anymore. Well, Mel definitely delivers, although the rest of the movie around him is not necessarily perfect.

The marketing left a lot of people thinking that this was going to be a Taken clone, but that’s not quite true. Based on a BBC mini-series from the mid-’80s, Edge of Darkness is also a political thriller, and not simply a straight up action revenge flick. Despite this potential misdirection, you may still find it to be surprisingly satisfying… assuming you don’t mind a bit of government conspiracy with your blood-soaked vengeance.

Thomas Craven is a Boston police detective who lives alone. When his 24-year-old daughter comes to visit for the weekend, she falls strangely ill, but avoids telling him exactly what the problem is. As they head out the front door to take her to the hospital, she is suddenly shot dead by a mysterious stranger right in front of his eyes. Craven convinces the police department to let him investigate, and in doing so, he finds out that she was in the midst of uncovering some high level corruption involving nuclear weapons at her workplace. Now he must track down the truth to finish what she started, and ensure that her death does not go in vain.

Edge of Darkness is directed by Martin Campbell, the same guy who did the original BBC mini-series, but who is also best known for doing the James Bond

films Goldeneye and Casino Royale. Believe it or not, it does feel like a Bond movie in some ways, particularly with its world-threatening intrigue and evil corporation factor. Unfortunately, it also suffers from the same problem that most Bond movies do: you don’t really understand what’s going on half of the time. In the end, the most important details are laid bare, but the complicated path of clues leading Craven through his investigation do feel a bit nonsensical and overwhelming at times.

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MeBeam is a website that operates entirely online. The logic is that you visit the site and enter the name of a room (if it doesn’t exist, it is created for you). Then you tell your friends the name of the room; they enter that on the site homepage and you all end up in the same room.

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