Hey everyone, check out tiltsite.com, I’m a writer here now and you may see a couple of my posts.  I’m working on the first article right now in fact.

By the way, Microsoft Live Writer(and a lot of the Live suite of software) is very cool(using it right now for this article)

Also….I’m on the President’s Honor Roll for last semester, WOOHOO!

So Microsoft seems to be pumping out a ton of cool new things(well this isn’t exactly new BUT IT’S NEW TO ME!) and one of these is PowerShell.

I’m working on a streamlined Vista install at the moment, but I’m going to be working more on PowerShell and see what it offers.

Microsoft Live Mesh is one of the coolest things since the glossy LCD screen.  I can’t wait for the mobile version to be rolled out.

Essentially it’s just SkyDrive meets Remote Desktop, but there are more features too.  It allows you to create sync’ed folders across machines(even add external users for collaboration purposes), remote into your PC from any ActiveX supporting web browser(I dunno why I didn’t just say “IE”), and gives you 5gb of storage space.

I’m not 100% sure what the mobile version is supposed to do, but I’m hopeful.

Microsoft is really pumping out the cool technologies lately.  Giving Google a run for their money in a heartbeat.

A lot of people use Symantec’s Ghost but I’m really not a fan of the software. Have to reboot your PC into their Live OS, takes forever, and doesn’t support many drives. Well I went searching and I found Paragon Drive Backup.

Not only is the software cheap($30 for the personal edition at time of writing), its FAST(backed up 25gb of data from my main drive to an aux drive in around 30 minutes, while compressing it to < 20gb), it runs within Windows(installs a driver of some sort to allow it to open protected files).

And, unlike Ghost, it supports any drive your OS does because it runs within Windows and uses Windows drivers.

Not only does it support Windows file systems(NTFS, FAT32, and FAT16), but also Linux file systems(Ext2, Ext3, and ReiserFS at time of writing).

You can do incremental backups(called differential backups), scheduled backups, 1-button drive copies, bootable recovery disks, and all number of things.

Check it out at Paragon’s Website