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If you want something done right, you need to do it yourself. That may sound like a trite cliche, but the maxim rings true when it comes to securing files that you've stored online: A handful of recent incidents--including breaches of Dropbox and iCloud--underscores the fact that even with built-in encryption and SSL transfers, cloud storage providers can't perfectly ensure the sanctity of your data.

Now in Beta 1, Better Explorer shows excellent file management abilities with more stability.

We explain how to configure and use an iSCSI target on a NAS server with Windows' built-in iSCSI initiator for fast access.

Spaces is a feature in OS X Lion that allows you to have multiple desktops, which can be handy when you’re working in more than one application and in different documents.

Solid-state drives are a great addition that will improve performance. Here are our choices for the best drives.

TreeSize Free is a no-frills application for finding out what's taking up space on your drive.

Thanks to open-source gem UNetbootin, you can quickly and easily transform a flash drive into the ultimate rescue tool.

A reader has two PCs that suddenly decided its DVD burners were CD burners. Here's one possible fix; can you think of any others?

Users of the latest build of this free Windows browser can assign the IE, Firefox, or Chrome engine to different kinds of Web pages.

This Outlook plug-in solves the problem of email providers limiting file attachment size.