Are you like me? Over the age of 60? Do you have a cell
phone? Is it a smartphone? Are you smart enough to operate it or should you
still be using a dumb phone? Well, if you are
like me then you probably should be
using a dumb one, but that’s kind of impossible in this day and age.
I have an iPhone. I don’t love it. I’m not a cell phone
person to begin with. My eyes aren’t so great. I need regular glasses for
distance and reading glasses for close up. It can be maddening trying to do
things—especially when I go from looking ahead to having to use my iPhone. I
have to take my distance glasses off and sometimes have to put on my reading
glasses in order to field a text from my 36-year-old daughter (who is addicted
to her iPhone and texting, by the way). And when it comes to responding or
scrolling or tapping through the apps, my fingers get all bunchy and hit the
wrong things from time to time—or the stupid auto correct “corrects” what I’m
trying to type. It’s wrong a lot of the time by the way. Ugh. It’s just so
frustrating.
So imagine, at my age, what happens when you accidentally
delete something or forget a password or two … or three. I know that I’m not
the only one to do this, but it’s been happening more and more lately. I keep
chalking it up to being a “senior moment” but I’m not always sure. Although all
of my friends say they have the same problems so I guess I’m in not-so-good
company. What can I say? I guess we’re all just dinosaurs. But being a dinosaur
is why I did something that all the younger (yet wiser) people are doing. I
installed a backup data and recovery program on my phone and I’m glad I did.
After having accidentally deleted some of my favorite pictures
of my granddaughter as well as several of my passwords, I started looking up
how to get some, if not, all of it
back. Turns out that if you didn’t back it up prior to the deletion, then its
gone forever. In my search, I found out that a lot of people—especially seniors—were
using this data backup software program called DDI Utilities Extractor and Data Recovery Software. Curious, I read up on it, as well as on a few other recovery
products. DDI said that it could retrieve any pictures, passwords, files and
other data that I lose and can do it either in bulk or by specific thing that
I’m looking for. After spending some time mulling it over, I took a shot at
DDI.
A few days later, I installed the software and gave it a
test drive. I took one of those selfies of myself (obviously) and changed a
password on one of my apps (which I knew, but wanted to see if DDI could help).
When I activated the program, I was able to get back what I wanted without a
hitch.
The program wasn’t expensive at all and was easy to install
and use. Now I no longer worry about what my clumsy dinosaur fingers may
mistakenly do or what my little dinosaur brain may forget, because I have a
backup plan. It’s DDI Utilities Extractor and Data Recovery Software.
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