Back in the days before USB 2.0, I was tempted to start every backup article with the same dumb joke: “Backing up is hard to do.”

Luckily, easy backups don’t require USB If you have broadband Internet access (DSL or cable). Just back up over the Internet. I recommend Mozy Home for the best and easiest backup for the price ($5 a month).

But if you’re accessing the Internet through dial-up, you’ll need to supplement your old hardware with more old hardware. Buy an internal or parallel port-based external backup drive with removable media such as tape or disk cartridges. Iomega’s Zip drives, which use disk-based cartridges, were quite popular ten years ago (I recently found some of the disks while cleaning out my garage). Iomega still makes and sells Zip drives, although the modern external ones use USB. But as I write this, five used parallel port Zip drives are on sale through Amazon.com.

You might also want to consider a DVD+/-RW drive to replace what I’m going to guess is your CD-ROM drive. These are still commonly made and reasonably inexpensive, and the discs are very cheap.

Email your technology questions to me at answer@pcworld.com, or post them to a community of helpful folks on the PCW Answer Line forum.

Popularity: 35% [?]

The iPhone 3G has almost come, is ready to be sold in many countries around the world, Italy comopresa.
Nowadays few hours separate us from a date that in the last month has become familiar to many: Friday, July 11.
With a countdown so short it is natural that the first units have already been delivered to retailers and, apparently, not alone.
The site Portuguese iphoneportugal.com proposes the first live pictures dell’iPhone 3G with which we already know the appearance of package.
We note that the box presents smaller than that with which Apple offered the older iPhone, but inside it is not the mobile multitouch that in this case is the iPhone 3G from 8GB black (remember that the only variation from 16 GB will be available both in white in black).
Inside the package, in addition to the phone, we find the power adapter, headphones and cable connection.

Popularity: 24% [?]

Starting from next July 15, the most popular tourist sites in the Republic of San Marino will be covered by ten “Wi-Fi free zone”.
To activate the service on Mobile PCs or phones, just ask the appropriate card at the years of conventioned historic center that will report graphics related to the initiative in the areas covered by the service, advertised through “totem” or exhibitors. The complete list of “Before Wi-Fi Zone” will be available online.

The code allows up an hour of navigation. After this time, will require other card. The navigation to sites of institutional Offices of State and associations involved in can take place even without code.
The project is the fruit of collaboration between the Secretariats of State for Tourism and Commerce and trade associations Osla, Usot, Usc Telecom and San Marino-First.

Popularity: 29% [?]