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New Year's resolutions can be hard to keep here are some tech resolutions you can do once that will keep you covered for the rest of the year for starters set up the service to automatically backup your files you can backup in two ways by an external hard drive and use software to schedule regular backups you can also backup to the cloud with online services like Dropbox Microsoft onedrive Google Drive or if you're a Mac user there's iCloud drive each offers some free storage but you'll need to pay a monthly fee for more storage at the very least you can backup your photos on your phone for free Google Photos app can automatically save a backup of your pictures and video as you take them it's unlimited but it may not say the file with the highest resolution also Amazon Prime subscribers have an unlimited backup of photos and videos with the Prime Photos app and five other people can also share that unlimited backup you should also guard your accounts from hackers by enabling 2-step verification on all your personal accounts for social media and email and if one year resolutions is to connect more with family take some time to help your relatives set up Skype or another video chat service on their phones and tablets that way even if you can't see each other in person you all can hop on video calls anytime throughout the year for CNET I'm Bridget Carey happy new year you