From lifehacker, The Best, Most Affordable Alternatives to Mozy for Unlimited Backups

It's not that Mozy hasn't been a great cloud-based backup service, especially for beginners. But the sudden price jump is catching many off-guard, especially users of the unlimited plan. Here's where else you can look if you've got a good bit of data to back up.

This made me LOL: Spoof of classic O'Reilly geek book cover

Google docs went and turned all possessives into Juliebird's instead of Juliebird's. Why and how can I stop it? Also, typing at the same time as someone else in the same document is so cool!

Google docs is so awesome for group work in class. The formatting is annoying, but I have them do all of the prep work there and then import it to a Word doc where they can polish and finalize it.

oh, that is an interesting technique. thank you for suggesting it.

Can anyone recommend good affordable data recovery software for the Mac platform? It turns out what I thought was a problem with my old laptop was instead the death rattle of my Firelite external HD, and the standard Apple Disk Utility can't repair it or pull the files I want to salvage out of it.

I've used DiskWarrior [link] in similar situations with some success.

try double bagging it in ziplock bags (with as much air as possible out of the bags) and put it in the freezer for 1 hour. Take it out and see if disk utility can deal with it.

I have a similar problem, Matt.

I have two external HDD, same brand, with similar symptoms. When I get a chance, I'm going to take them out of their cases (Seagate over packaging) and try them directly in my computer or in another external adapter.

Argh.

Thanks gang!