Friends!

We are happy to announce a brand new product in the Handy Backup product line! Please awesomesauce welcome: Handy Backup Home Intellectual!

The new Handy Backup tool brings an unseen new level of integration between backup software and your home environment: not only shall the app back up your computer, but the data of all home appliances – while you sleep, work, or have fun!

Ever wanted a backup storage for your TV or fridge data? Now you got one!

The new shiny Handy Backup Home Intellectual provides ultimate synchronization for all home appliances, from PC desktops to toasters. Back up files from your Windows laptops, Android mobiles, irons, vacuum cleaners, desktops, microwaves, and more machines!

Once installed on at least one home device, the app automatically detects the rest of appliances and easy connects them to the ultimate home backup network.

You get the centralized control: backup and sync of the entire network might be managed from a single control point, accessible from various home devices. Just make sure you configure administrator and user rights for access to the home backup network, to prevent unauthorized intrusion.

Home Intellectual is supplied with a number of free plug-ins, like dish washer backup and vacuum cleaner backup plug-ins.

Also, the basic home backup functionality might be extended with advanced plug-ins, like fridge food backup and office appliances backup plug-ins (fax and coffee machines deserve backup too!). Advanced plug-ins are purchased individually.

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The new product is not yet avilable on the official Handy Backup website (the .net one, remember?) and other distribution channels. But exclusively for Handy Backup Blog friends, there is a chance to order Home Intellectual now, before the official release, via a direct request: just tweet “@Handy_Backup get my fridge backed up! #yourbackiswhite” on Twitter.

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Special offer: get a family pack of 3 licenses before April, 10, and automatically recieve an advanced plug-in for backing up the food from your family fridge to the cloud storage, free of charge! Sharing is caring!

Happy home backups!

Sometimes people get Handy Backup website URL wrong.

The name is OK to get. You hear it from people who use and like the product. You read it in magazines, blogs, tech news websites, and elsewhere on the web. But knowing the name doesn’t guarantee you are protected against product clones.

We are HandyBackup.NET. But there is also HandyBackup.COM out there on the web, and they are NOT US.

Not only do they run an old-fashioned website reminding of early 2000s, they provide an out-of-date backup software of highly doubtful quality.

Our support team gets tons of weekly calls and messages about numerous problems and inappropriate operation of the .COM’s product from people confusing the two of us.

So, if you are heading for handybackup.COM, that’s not us. We are HandyBackup.NET, smart automated backup software for your Android device, PC, computer network, and servers.

Be careful, when you choose a data protection tool.

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P.S.: as the matter of fact, there are several options for you to share your 2c and help the true Handy Backup to be recognized properly:

Be aware that HandyBackup.COM is not us.

Block handybackup.COM in the search results with the use of a personal blocklist extension for Chrome.

Tell your friends who might get interested in a product like ours, that .NET and .COM stand for two different software products.

Happy backups!

One button here, to download:

And one button inside the app, to manage 100% data protection as easy as… you know… pressing one button.

Speaking of 100%. This season’s easiest way to get 100% of security for Android backups, as you might have probably heard already, is remote data backup to the Handy Backup Cloud.

Interested? Then download the app (one button above is at your service), install the thing to your Android device (running under Android OS starting from 2.0), and enjoy storing backups of Android everything to Online Backup Server.

Merry backups (and screw the data loss)!

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Posted by Aleksey <<Hi to Technorati’s Blog Directory: EW2C277K9ZZJ>> Dolgushev

Hurrah-hurray!

Next is the Handy Backup Community Fest week once again!

The merry time when Handy Backup shoots away a shower of presents, special thanks, and signs of appreciation for the Handy Backup user community!

Puzzles with the most awesome award ever, numerous nominations for Handy Backup users and fans, and gifts just without a reason are only a few things to be mentioned among the mind-blowing cool stuff waiting you on September 5-11, 2011.

You comment Handy Backup on Facebook and in this Blog, respond to @Handy_Backup tweets, or share your thoughts on product development in the polls? Then Handy Backup knows about you and is very likely to thank you the fancy way!

Stay in touch with Handy Backup’s social media, keep in mind backup functionality you would like to get the most (say, have you heard that Handy Backup is now capable of super powerful MS SQL backup?), and call friends to check in the Handy Backup Community Week! It’ll be fun;)

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Posted by Aleksey <Follow-Me> Dolgushev

Do you like getting what’s yours? If you do, then Handy Backup’s online backup cloud storage is your type of cloud backup. Here is how it works…

1. If you are a user of the Handy Backup software (BTW nice choice), you get online backup cloud storage automatically. No routine registration, no need to submit your personal info, get a confirmation link via email, activate the link, and so on. You choose the Online Backup Service as the backup destination, and the rest of the task of getting data to the cloud is accomplished automatically. You just go to RemoteDataBackup.net and check if everything is in its’ right place (and everything will be in its’ right place, believe me or go test drive it).
2. If you register an account for online backup cloud storage manually (you naturally go to this page for stuff like that), you get free’n'awesome backup software to empower the backup safety of your data.

Those were the spoilers. And here is the video they divulge. Check it out and learn how the video’s Easter eggs can get you awesome Handy Backup licenses or free extra cloud storage (see the Video Quest section below)

Video Quest: find 3 Easter eggs in this video and get a free license for Handy Backup Professional or +2GB of cloud storage! Find more Easter eggs and get something even more awesome… Send your findings here.

How smart can an Android app be? Check out the new standards for app intelligence with the super awesome new Handy Backup for Android!

Google only knows how many useful Android apps are out there these days. There are utilities to recognize writings in images in a bunch of languages, programs to tell you what song you can hear playing, and, my personal favorites, powerful backup software Android reincarnations. Giga-tons of useful stuff.

But today it is not enough for an app to be useful to get true user appreciation. In the century of data overload, the sacred key for user popularity is ‘smartness’.

What a smart Android app is? This is supposed to be a matter of discussion and personal subjective choice, as Webster’s Dictionary tells us about ’smart Android app’.

So, here is my personal subjective choice:

a smart Android app is the one that already knows the answer for your question before you even asked it.

Like brand new Handy Backup for Android.

Besides the handy* backup of Android everything** (which has already become a kind of a tradition for this app), Handy Backup for Android features smartness via a novel notification system. The utility monitors the dynamics of data traffic on your device and recommends the best practices to get the most data protection depending on your personal way of data things.

Plus, it delivers timely reminders to back up. Along with featuring fully automatic Android backup functionality. Over being capable of helping you to store data to a protected remote server of Online Backup Cloud Storage. And the part I like the most, you can download the magic app right away! Explore the ‘Download APK’ button above for this purpose.

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Posted by Aleksey <<Ask me about the Cloud>> Dolgushev

*: zip compression, scheduling, encryption, contact backups as VCards, and more…

**: contacts, call logs, text messages, MMS, system settings, calendar, browser bookmarks & history, SD card files, and more data…

***: you get the new version before the official release on the Handy Backup site! That’s what I call Exclusive Stuff, special for Handy Backup Blog readers!

Well, it’s been a week of new stuff for Handy Backup.

First, there finally arrived the mighty MySQL backup functionality for Handy Backup. With prior noble talents of Handy Backup to find, copy, restore, and sync ODBC-compatible databases, the software became the most powerful database backup in the world (no kidding).

Then, there was presented a new partner program for backup software resellers. The program offers a reward for spreading the word about the Handy Backup novel backup software in social media. The reward is as pleasant as an incredible 50% discount for all Handy Backup editions (Handy Backup Server for a half price, how cool is that?).

Finally, there began the Handy Backup Super Hero contest. To enter the contest, people are welcome to tell friends what Handy Backup is and what it works for, and the friends can support those informants with their votes for them for Handy Backup super heroes. The votes are supposed to be the message

Save the data! Kill the data loss! I vote for [participant’s name] for the Handy Backup super hero!

posted to the Handy Backup Facebook wall and tweeted to @Handy_Backup. The 3 super heroes getting the most votes are to be rewarded with free access to the computer online backup service by Handy Backup and many other pleasing prizes.

The next week promises something really special for the 4^th of July and a brand new version of Handy Backup for Android featuring a super intellectual yet 1-2-3 simple notification system and shrewd data protection monitor. Stay tuned and keep your data backed up.

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Posted by Aleksey “BTW MySQL FYI” Dolgushev

What does it take to be a super hero these days?

Do you have to wear a mystical green ring, have a fancy name (and the face of Chris Evans), or suffer from a genetic mutation?

In the Facebook era, a true hero is the one sharing the most useful information. Who is the most heroic hero regarding a backup software brand? Let’s check it out!

Please welcome,

Handy Backup Super Hero contest!

What you have to do:

Tell friends about Handy Backup and ask them to support you as a Handy Backup super hero. The votes of support are accepted as posts to the Handy Backup Facebook wall and tweets to@Handy_Backup. The vote text is

Save the data! Kill the data loss! I vote for [here goes your name] for the Handy Backup super hero!

What you can win:

The three top heroes get Handy Backup Standard free licenses. The super hero accumulating the most votes will also get a chance to use the online backup cloud storage service for free, appear in a new Handy Backup commercial, and accumulate a couple of neat prizes more.

The contest ends on July, 8.

Let the world know its’ heroes! Save the data! Kill the data loss!

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Posted by Aleksey “Online Backup” Dolgushev

P.S.: voting for yourself doesn’t count:)

How might new cool summer features of the Handy Backup cloud service feel like completed without Handy Backup Blog readers telling what they think about those? No way, I state!

Here is the deal. Summer is the lovely season. So many pleasant things to think about. Vacation, weekend barbeque, expansion of the Hawaiian shirt collection… Unfortunately, data backup is not on the top positions in that list of mind warming stuff.

So, to remind folks that the summer is the time data backup is still important and how cool Online Backup service can be, here at Handy Backup we prepared a bunch of awesome summer features for our supreme cloud storage service. There is quite a pile of those features, and we are going to choose one, the most desired by users. You now have a chance to see what the features are about and lobby the one you like the most.

Here is the list:

* 500 MB of Online Backup storage space for inviting a friend (up to 5 GB)

* Buy one summer month of cloud storage and get another one for free

* Get a summer account and the price you pay for it will automatically go down over time

* The more you back up online, the more online backup bonus storage you get

* Guess the magic number in a colder/warmer game and get that much MB of free storage

* Send in a video testimonial about the online backup software and get 1 GB of free storage

Feel welcome to post your votes in comments below and discuss them with @Handy_Backup on Twitter.

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Posted by Aleksey “Online Backup Aloha” Dolgushev

P.S.: check out how people vote for the features on Facebook.

What is the best place to get your new Android app from?

Android Market? Too obvious to be that fast an answer (the rule no. 42 of the uncalled blogging ethics). Besides all the diversity and choice opportunities as advantages, Android Market has those diversity and choice opportunities for its’ flaws. There is the world of useful stuff in there, and even more useless. Unless you are a psychic or a karma guru, getting the right thing naturally requires notable time (despite all the Google’s search wisdom behind Android Market).

An app developer’s official page? Well… Suppose you are on Handy Backup for Android developers’ site. Yes, there are those details, extended descriptions, screenshots (for eye-choosers), video manuals (for meticulous), special offers (for lucky), and an interactive form to send in a tweet. Let’s consider you found it. But wait. Again, how much time did it get to dig for it? And how much more will you have to spend making your way through the developer arguments explaining why this very Android backup app is worth obtaining?

So, what do we have, as Android Market and app developers’ pages are out of the competition for the best place to harvest an Android app from? The answer was here from the very beggining: here!

Exactly the place where you got a trace of an app’s coolness. The place your casual interest got you to. The spot in the space-time continuum where an idea about getting a new utility lives. Something like the way QR codes work for bakery shops. Like an insight telling you something that will make your day. No extra steps. No steps at all. Just the download button

for the brand new super cool Handy Backup for Android! Merry new backups!

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Posted by Aleksey “Download Now!” Dolgushev

P.S.: download now and start taking backup care of messages, call logs, contacts, browser history, bookmarks, and the rest of Android everything. Check out Handy Backup cloud online backup storage as a nice option for keeping backup data too.