Mac Emergency
One thing that you hear all the time is how important it is to backup your computer. You don’t really know how important it is until data loss happens to you. The sad thing is most people still don’t do it. Even Apple thinks that backing up is so important that they made it one of the main features in OS X Leopard (Apple calls it Time Machine). Right now your hard drive is sitting there. It’s filled with all those irreplaceable digital photos, downloaded music and movie files, e-mails, and other documents waiting to be lost by a tragic Mac emergency — a hard drive failure. If you are lucky enough to have a Mac running Leopard, then congratulations, you have everything you need for backing up your Mac, almost. The other thing you need is a place to put the backup. If you have a Mac tower, you can install a second internal hard drive, an inexpensive part you can get online or at any store that sells PCs. The easiest route, and for those with iMacs, laptops, minis, etc., is to get an ext
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