These are instructions on how to install an SATA hard drive into your desktop. The instructions here are most useful for those who want to add a second hard drive.

A much easier alternative is to hook up an external drive using a USB 2.0 or Firewire port. External drives have the added advantage of being portable.

If you really want to protect your data, RAID (Mirrored hard drives) is a great option, besides an external hard drive like the Western Digital MyBook. These videos will help you to setup Raid volumes in Windows XP Pro. The videos come in three parts.

Here is a video that will show you how to create avatars and rooms for the Google Lively virtual worlds.

iPods are not just a good tool to store music, and play that music back, but iPods have a lot of storage space that you can use to backup important files from your computer hard drive. It might be easier to use an external hard drive, or even a thumb drive, but if you use your iPod a lot you probably wouldn’t forget to bring it with you like you would a thumb drive.

This video demonstrates how Twitter works in plain English.