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In part one of this series on creating a home backup plan I talked about the primary backup options you have available and the pros and cons to each. Over the next three parts, I'll detail how to use each of these methods and recommend some good options and tools.

Music streaming services have been around for some time. With the arrival of Spotify and Google Play Music in the US, the average user is able to listen to a huge amount of music on the go. There is an overlooked segment of users that these services do not cater to however, those with vast music collections stored on their hard drives. True, Google Play Music allows you to upload your tunes to their servers for streaming purposes, but that is not the best option when you're dealing with 100GB+ of music.

Cheaper routers are often loaded with un-sophisticated firmware that does not allow for the advanced features found in the more expensive models. Open source firmware has been created which unlocks the true potential of your hardware and gives you enterprise grade features on the cheap.

JavaScript, it's no longer the avoidable nuisance it once was. The flexibility of of the language and its ubiquity on the client side have brought it front and center for modern web developers. The creation of popular JavaScript frameworks, such as jQuery, MooTools, YUI, Dojo, GWT to name a few, have eased much of the pain when it comes to coding, but most of the shortcomings of the language are still inherent.

A few days ago, Microsoft released a preview of the ASP.NET Fall 2012 update to Visual Studio 2012. This update adds some really useful new features to MVC and Web API projects (along with some minor updates to Web Forms) that should save .NET developers a lot of time.

Membership is a basic need for all applications which require personalization. Today more than ever, mobile applications are built either along side the web app or as the primary application platform. Where user accounts are concerned, the experience should be seamless regardless of the delivery method.

This is a bad time for me to write about the iOS app store review process. We've been in a constant battle with them for the past 2 months while launching an iPad application that supplements a web application for the medical industry. The source of our frustration begins and ends with our inability to reach an actual person to have a discussion with.

Here’s the situation, you’re building a modern web application with all the AJAX-ey goodness users now expect, when suddenly you realize that some of your AJAX calls are not returning current data in Internet Explorer.

Developers for Windows have long enjoyed the freedom to build and distribute Windows software at their discretion. While this should remain true for desktop applications, when it comes to the new Metro tile apps, Microsoft is taking a page from the Mac OS book.