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Take Care of Your Hard Drive…

#463480719 / gettyimages.com …it’ll take care of you. Joel Lee posted some good tips on MakeUseOf this morning; PYBT: How To Care For Your Hard Drives And Make Them Last Longer. Don’t bother with the SSD tips sidebar, though; it’s … Continue reading

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Backup, Backup, Backup!!

You remember the second Mac commandment, don’t you?? The Sweet Setup recently went on a backup jag, and had some interesting things to say on the subject: The best app for making bootable backups of your Mac (SuperDuper!) The easiest … Continue reading

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Macworld HELP DESK 01.24.2014

Getting as tired of all the ads, and videos that start automatically, and unasked-for windows when you browse the Web as I am?? Dr Breen’s How to block the Web’s worst clutter has some great suggestions. Tame your Twitter feed … Continue reading

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Macworld HELP DESK 01.17.2014

How Mac experts deal with their contacts brings together an interesting bunch of folk with some interesting takes on dealing with the issues; whaddaya think? Coulda, woulda, shoulda (well, coulda and shoulda, anyway) meet at How to (and why not … Continue reading

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Macworld HELP DESK 01.03.2014

Just in time for the new year, Dr Breen presents 5 resolutions for a better digital life. Master the command line: Navigating files and folders provides a good introduction to dealing with UNIX, the workhorse behind the pretty OS X … Continue reading

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Macworld HELP DESK 12.13.2013

First off, in keeping with this month’s program, Dr Breen continues his iMovie series with Exploring iMovie’s editing options, wherein he waxes eloquent on lots of ways to spiff up your initial iMovie efforts (two pages). And now that you’ve … Continue reading

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Macworld HELP DESK 07.05.2013

Starting off this week with security. Can’t be too paran… prepared, you know? Here’s what an eavesdropper sees when you use an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot, along with various things you can do about it. Wi-Fi. Bonjour. HDMI. What’s it all … Continue reading

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