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Mac Emergency

August 25, 2008

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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Gas Guzzling

August 11, 2008

Attention America, I am not running for president, but I have two solutions to your energy crises, and I’m bringing them to you in the form of video games.

You’re welcome.

First, here’s my Energy Brainstorm: So I’m protecting

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Capture It

August 11, 2008

A useful tool built into the Mac OS, even way back in the old OS 7 days, is the screen capture tool. If you hold down the shift and command key then press 3, the Mac makes a sound like a camera clicking and a picture file will appear on the desktop.

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Thanks For The Memory

July 28, 2008

Modern Macs are very fast. The G5 chip was pretty fast, and is still a very usable computer, but any of the Intel dual-core chips are even faster. The computer industry is always introducing faster and shinier computers and Apple seems to be even bet

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More iPhone Mania

July 14, 2008

As I write this, lines are forming outside Apple Stores around the US for the next gen iPhone. The new iPhone, which was announced at the 2008 WWDC show in June, uses the faster 3G data network, has built-in GPS (Global Positioning System), and the n

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Computing In The Clouds

June 30, 2008

There is an important shift happening on the Internet, one that started only a few years ago. There are web sites online today which work just like an application running directly on your computer. Sometimes this type of web service is called Web 2.0

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