A note on backing up your home computer system – do it now! Even if you have wholeheartedly embraced the cloud computing way of life, and migrated all your precious files, photos, music and more to the web, there is always going to be the argument that you shouldn’t keep all your eggs in one basket. Even if you rely on web services for your daily computing needs, it is worth regularly backing up key material to your computer, and in turn backing up the files on your computer to some kind of physically removable media – either CDs, DVDs or an external hard drive.

Both Macs and Windows PCs have their own built-in backup software. OS X’sTime Machine application is very easy to use and will effortlessly create hourly, daily and weekly archives of your data via either a wired or wireless connection. This archive can then be used to retrieve lost files or even set up a new Mac.

Windows 7, meanwhile, features an application called simply Backup, which creates an “image” backup of every file and folder on your PC. This can in turn be used to restore some, or all, of your files should the worst happen.

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