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Article: The Philadelphia Inquirer technology testDrive column.
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- July 1, 2004
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By John J. Fried, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 1--STUFFIT DELUXE 8.5: Aladdin Systems Inc.; Windows 98SE and higher; $39.99. (A Mac version is also available.)
These are good times for people who look at the world in terms of files: where to store them, how to archive them, and how to send them quickly around the world.
We are living in an era, after all, of low-cost, 120-gigabyte hard drives, 800-megabyte CDs, five-gigabyte DVDs, and spreading broadband Internet access.
The glitz at the edges of technology, however, obscures a netherworld where computer users struggle to back up 10 files ...