Karen has been writing software for the PC for about a zillion years. She has a whole whack of programs that she is constantly tinkering with and improving upon— enough to warrant a weekly newsletter. Her programs, and her newsletter (which has over 50,000 subscribers), are all free.

The program of Karen's that I use the most is Replicator. I have it configured so that every night it creates a perfect copy of all of my important files. My files on my home office computer are mirrored to the computer in the living room, incase anything should go wrong. What's more, the backups are performed incrementally— meaning that only the files that have changed are copied. All of my business files, my software installation programs, my beloved images and my all-important MP3's are replicated every evening at midnight. If my hard drive were to cease tomorrow, at the very most I would be one day behind.

The real benefit that Karen's Replicator affords me is the piece of mind that cannot be measured. Having gone through the horrific experience of having a 40 gig hard drive suddenly die on me, this freeware utility takes a big load off my poor noggin.

Download Replicator here, and check out Karen's other software here.