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Over the past two days the Geeks have featured a couple tools that can help you prepare for a disaster. First we featured the Dell Multifunction Laser Printer 1815dn followed by two USB drives: Corsair Ultra Rugged and a Imation Clip Flash Drive.

You can use these tools together to prepare for disaster recovery by using the scanning feature of the Dell Multifunction Laser Printer to scan various documents to PDF. The reason we chose this printer is because you do not even have to plug the device into a printer to scan, but you can scan directly to e-mail. Most other multifunction printer/scanner/fax/copiers require special software and a machine with Outlook running, especially in the class and price range of this Dell.

Once you scan all your important documents you can save a copy on Gmail if you have a Gmail account, but you’ll also want to download to a USB drive that you can grab in a hurry. We found a couple USB drives that can resist water, mud and other elements.

In addition to storing the data on Gmail and the USB flash drive, you can additionally store documents using Xdrive or some other online storage place. The Geeks definitely recommend storing your important documents using encryption.

Depending on the size of the scanned documents and USB, you should be able to store all of your documents on the drive and have some room left over. For ideas on what you can use that additional space on the flash drive, check out Lifehacker’s Carry your life on a thumb drive article.

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Last week, PC World magazine released the winners of its 2006 World Class Awards. Topping the list was Intel’s Duo Core CPU followed closely by AMD’s Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core. I thought it interesting that Craigslist made #3. I loved that Firefox 1.5 ( ) made the list and quite high as well at #12. Good for the Mozilla Foundation and in the back of my mind, I still sentimentally think of them as Netscape. Also on the list is Mozilla’s Thunderbird e-mail client, which I also use and depend on. I do find it interesting that Yahoo! Mail made the list, but Google’s Gmail did not. I have used both extensively and Yahoo! Mail’s spam filtering capability has just degraded (or at least not kept up) to the point where I can’t use it any more. Oh yes, for a more extensive comparison of Web-based e-mail services, check out our review. It’s a bit old, but most of the info in it still applies today.

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Google is now offering free Internet access for travellers at Heathrow International Airport in London, England. The good folks at Google have set up 10 PCs with Mozilla Firefox browser and bookmarks to Google applications, including Gmail and Google Local. Also included is Google Earth which lets you see Satellite images of places on our little planet. Although, this is only scheduled to run for a month, I can’t imagine that Google won’t extend it in this and other airports.

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You may have noticed in the past day or so the Geeks have added a Firefox button in the lower left column of our site. Not only that but we saved on web hosting from Site5 because we purchased our current web hosting using a Firefox browser instead of IE. What I’m trying to say is that the Geeks love Firefox over IE. Why? Well, there are many reasons but my favorite features include extensions and tabbed browsing. For a full fledge fight between the two, check our this comparison. Firefox even won their coin flip test!

Check out Firefox on your own.

You might want to check out a couple of my favorite extensions as well. StumbleUpon is an online community that rates and keeps notes on different web sites. A useful extension for those with gmail is Gmail Notifier. Finally, if you want to keep track of the weather get Forecast Fox.

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Yet another release from the prolific folks over at Google, Google Desktop 2. The screenshot alone makes it pretty compelling to download and try out. The new version offers personalization, a sidebar that floats in your desktop and contains numerous plug-ins that each provide up to date info on your Gmail e-mail, news, weather, stocks and RSS feeds. The sidebar also contains a notepad-type application and a quick search box. You can also reduce the sidebar down to a small box that sits in your Windows taskbar or it can float as well.

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