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Is Linkedin premium worth it?

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I upgraded to LinkedIn Premium - Career plan - recently to try their exclusive features. I will list top features of premium membership and what it means to a regular user and whether it is useful. This article is written in the context of a professional looking to get hired and not in the point of view of a professional looking to recruit, increase sales or grow business. Here are my findings. Who viewed your profile  This feature allows one can see a lot of profile visitors for the past 90 days instead of just last 5 viewers that is provided regularly. However, it does not list people who

Computer crash or: How I learned to stop worrying and back up my data

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I recently faced a computer crash and lost all the data in my computer. We have so much data like photos, videos, documents, tax forms, that we don't even recollect what we lost until we actually do. I ruled out the option of external Hard Drive Drive. I heard from a my friend of mine that his external HDD crashed and he lost data as well. So I am ruling it out. What good is a backup if it is not a reliable? So the only viable and reliable alternative is that I should use

Peculiar problem with dropbox

There is a peculiar problem associated with Dropbox. To briefly state "Deleted files in shared folders only show as long as they are shared and vice versa". If you leave a shared folder (even with a copy of the files) the deleted files cannot be restored. This is quite a problem since rarely people take back up of the backup data i.e. data on Dropbox. A problem description, the reason for this peculiarity and few solutions :) are given here.