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UpdateStar has some good features built into it. It may or may not be what you’re looking for, depending upon your needs and the amount of backing up you need to do.

UpdateStar is a backup service that provides the usually compliment of products and add-ons to help you get started. For instance, there’s an application that you install on your computer that allows you to backup your files quite easily. There’s also a series of support options that you can call upon if you happen to get lost. The company uses compression and encryption to make backing up files faster and more secure.

There are some nice features to the UpdateStar service. The licensing is very flexible, so you can move to a new computer if you get one without having to worry about any hassles. Beyond that, however, you’ll find that the service is very similar to what most of the other companies out there in this field offer their clients.

Pros

UpdateStar has some good features built into it that business and personal users will like. For instance, there is a feature that allows you to backup external drives. This is handy if you have most of your files stored on removable media such as a fire wire hard drive. There are also technological advantages to this system, such as block-level backups, but these don’t really differentiate it from the other offerings out there. This is a “set it and forget it” type system that automatically takes care of your backups for you once you set them to run.

Cons

The UpdateStar service doesn’t do much to make itself stand out from the competition. The versioning support, ease of use and other features are all offered by its competitors, as well, so there isn’t much here if you’re looking for a feature that really puts it over the top in terms of what it has to offer. There aren’t any drawbacks to this service, but it’s going to be competing on price and usability with its rivals and, in both regards, it fails to ascend to the top.

Analysis

While UpdateStar is a good company that offers a good service, it hasn’t really done the work to make itself the best out there. It supports 128-bit encryption in a world where much of the competition is supporting 256-bit encryption. Its interface is easy enough to use, but it’s not intuitive as are some of the competition’s offerings.

Conclusion

UpdateStar manages to be another offering for online backup in a world full of offerings for online backup. If you’re looking for something that’s going to knock your socks off, this probably isn’t it. It does everything you’d expect, but nothing that’s going to wow you. There are better products out there that have standout features that make them particularly well suited to specific demographics. UpdateStar is a sort of jack-of-all-trades being suitable for anyone but, at the same time, not really being spectacular for any particular type of user.

Gmail has perhaps one of the most effective spam-filtering systems among Web mail services. But once in a while, junk still finds its way into the user’s inbox. Fortunately, marking spam as such and getting rid of it is easy.

Mark an Email Message as Spam

First, make sure you are logged in to your Gmail account. Locate the spam messages and then:

1. Click the check box to the left of the spam message. If you want to select multiple emails, press the Ctrl key as you click each one, or the Shift key if they follow one another.
2. On the toolbar immediately above the messages list, click the icon with a circle and exclamation point. The tool tip should display Report spam.
3. Gmail will display the message “This conversation has been marked as spam.” If you made a mistake, click Undo.
4. If you selected a message from an address that you are also subscribed to, Gmail will display a message saying, “In addition to marking this message as spam, Gmail can attempt to automatically unsubscribe you from [sender] by sending an unsubscribe request on your behalf.” You can unsubscribe and report the mail as spam, or just mark that particular message as junk.

Remove an Email Message from Spam

If you marked a legitimate conversation as junk mail, don’t despair. You can still remove the “spam” label on it. Do this as soon as possible, so you do not miss out on any important messages from the sender that was accidentally blocked. Also spam messages are deleted from your mailbox after a month.

1. While in Gmail, bring your mouse over to the left sidebar, just between the sidebar and the messages pane. Wait for the vertical scroll bar to appear.
2. Find the label marked as Spam. You may have to click More to see it.
3. Click the Spam label.
4. Select the message to restore.
5. On the toolbar, click Not spam.

Delete Spam Email Messages

If you know an email is junk, and you don’t need it, there’s no reason why it should stay in your mailbox. When you delete spam, it’s gone forever. Doesn’t that feel good? Alternatively, you can let Google Nature run its course: all mails marked as spam are automatically deleted after 30 days.

1. Go to the Spam label on the left sidebar.
2. Select the messages to be deleted.
3. Click Delete forever on the toolbar.
4. To delete all spam, click Delete all spam messages now.

You should see a message reading, “All messages marked spam have been deleted forever.