What’s for dinner?

Raise your hand if you:

–Put all your pictures on your computer to clean off your memory card…maybe even thinking one day you will burn them all on a dvd or get them printed off.

–Have tons of word documents saved on your computer.

–Paid to download music and have saved them all on your computer…maybe thinking that one day you will burn them onto cds.

–Uploaded all our your videos from your camcorder to your computer…maybe thinking that one day you will burn them onto dvds.

–Gone somewhere and needed a document or photo from your computer but do not have it with you.

Ok…now think…what if your computer crashed?  What would happen to all your precious things, memories?  You paid for them and now they are gone.  Photos and videos can’t be recreated.  Moneypaid to buy music is down the drain.  I would be devastated.  How about you!?

Did you know most computers crash within three years?  Random disasters and viruses can cause your computers’ external hard drives and other data storage devices to be vulnerable to destruction at any moment.  If you are not backing up your valuable digital things you take the chance of losing everything.

HomeDataGuard (HDG) is “essentially a remote file cabinet for your important documents, photos, videos and anything else digital.”  They use Amazon for their secure servers, so it’s well encrypted (meaning you’re quite safe from identity theft).  Not a computer guru?  No worries.  Their interface (or perhaps in your terms, “program” ) is very simple, clean, and animated.

“HomeDataGuard was originally founded by Dina Moskowitz, a serial entrepreneur in San Diego, California who is also a Mom raising two kids.  The business was sparked by the evacuations and impact of the 2007 San Diego wildfires that destroyed thousands of people’s homes and memoirs.”  Wouldn’t it make having to evacuate your home less stressful if you didn’t have to worry about packing up your computer in order to save your things!?

Not only does HomeDataGuard protect your things, it allows access to any of your documents, photos, videos, etc from any computer 24/7/365!! Wouldn’t this be great for traveling business people.  Now you don’t have to haul around your computer and hassle with hooking it up just to show your slide show.  Just arrive at your destination and log in!

Here is a great tip:  If your documents or photos aren’t in digital format now, just scan them in or use a fax machine.  “If you do not own one, take your documents to a local copy store for assistance.  [If] you reside in regions where [they] offer HomeDataPro assistance, you can schedule an appointment to have a HomeDataPro come to your home to do all the scanning for you.”

Here is how it works–

Once you are signed up, “enter your username and password. The vault door will open and you will be taken inside to your File Cabinet. You have the choice of working in the File Cabinet view (most popular) or the Tree Structure view (best when you’ve added many files).”

“Your HomeDataGuard File Cabinet has four drawers: the top two drawers include several pre-named folders to get you started; the bottom two drawers are empty. In each drawer, you can create new folders as you need them. We recommend that you open the top two drawers to see if the pre-named folders are useful to you; simply delete those which are not.” (There is a great video of how it works on the home page www.HomeDataGuard.com)

We recommend that you decide in advance how to organize your file cabinet in the most logical way for your personal needs and preferences. For example, you might want to put all home-inventory and emergency related information together in one drawer, all videos in another drawer, and all business-related information in another.”

PLUS–Your subscription comes with its own unique email account, so that you can do things like email photos from your cell phone right into your account, or have your advisers send important files into the account, or use that email address when you make travel reservations, etc.

I think this is the greatest thing!  I am totally hooking myself up with HomeDataGuard.  I just would be sick if I lost some of the things on my computer…especially my pictures and all the music I have paid for (not to mention the time I have taken to upload all my cds onto my computer).

Since regular 12 month subscription is $49.95 and you get one month free up front. HomeDataGuard is offering Real Moms Real Views readers a discohttp://realmomsrealviews.com/wp-admin/post-new.phpunt!!  50% off the first year’s subscription (price will actually be $25.00). Use the code: !RealMomsBackup!

Today HomeDataGuard is giving FIVE lucky readers…

a one year subscription to HomeDataGuard!!

Want to win!?  YES! Yes, you do!  I do!    Here is how to enter:
Leave one comment for each eligible entry.

1st entry–MANDATORY–Visit HomeDataGuard and then tell us one thing you would make sure to put in your file cabinet.
1 Entry per day–Follow HomeDataGuard and AGE on Twitter and tweet: Win a  years subscription to HomeDataGuard! ($50 value)
2 Entries–“Like” HomeDataGuard on Facebook
2 Entries for each–“Like” AGE on Facebook, follow Real Moms Real Views via Google Friend Connect, or sign up to receive Real Moms Real Views daily emails
5 Entries–Sign up for a one year subscription with HomeDataGuard (don’t forget to use our discount code!)

You have until November 11th @ 11:59 AM EDT to enter the giveaway. All giveaways are open to USA only. Winners will be chosen by random.org and will be contacted by email after the giveaways close. The winner will then have 48 hours to claim their giveaway by email. If the winner does not claim their prize within their 48 hour period, a new winner will be chosen. *All entries received after the cutoff time will be deleted prior to choosing a winner. Opinions expressed in this post are strictly our own.  I was compensated for this review.