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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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Tagged hard drive, Joel Lee, maintenance, MakeUseOf
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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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Tagged Arq, Backblaze, backup, Carbonite, CrashPlan, Disk Utility, Dolly Drive, Dropbox, hard drive, Java, maintenance, Mozy, Shawn Blanc, Shirt Pocket, Stephen Hackett, SuperDuper!, The Sweet Setup, Time Machine, WD
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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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Tagged audio, browsers, GarageBand, Google Chrome, hard drive, HELP DESK, JavaScript, Macworld, music, Safari, security, social media, storage, Twitter
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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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Tagged Aperture, GarageBand, hard drive, HELP DESK, iOS, iTunes, Macworld, Mavericks, music, photo editing, photography, photos, productivity, RAID, storage
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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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Tagged backup, command line, GarageBand, hard drive, hardware, HELP DESK, how-to, Lightroom, MacBook Pro, Macworld, man pages, music, OS X, photo editing, photography, photos, security, SSD, Terminal, troubleshooting, UNIX
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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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Tagged amazon.com, App Store, backup, digital camera, DSLR, e-mail, gifts, Google Play, hard drive, HELP DESK, iMovie 10, iPhone 5s, iTunes, iTunes Radio, Macworld, Mail, Mog, music, Nook, pandora, photography, privacy, Pure Connect, Rdio, security, Slacker Radio, Spotify, streaming media, Touch ID, troubleshooting, video editing, Windows Store
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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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Tagged Apple, Apple Certified Macintosh Technician, DVD, Gnabomzse45rdXcf^t4Rgb, HandBrake, hard drive, HELP DESK, iOS 6, iPhone, Mac, Macworld, security, terminology, utilities, Wi-Fi
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