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Backing Up

By on January 21, 2009 in Hardware, Time Machine

Vanessa asks: I really need to get some back up Hard Drive. I’ve heard I need at least 3 HDDs. is that what I use? Also what brand or mem­ory space do you think is required? On a mac the best back up is a exter­nal firewire HD and then set­ting up time machine. Time […]

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How safe are your passwords?

By on December 10, 2008 in Basic, Software

If you are like many peo­ple online you are prob­a­bly using Mozilla’s Fire­fox as your web browser of choice. If you aren’t using Fire­fox then this post won’t directly related to you. How­ever if you are… read on. Do you save pass­words to fre­quently vis­ited web­sites in Fire­fox with this dia­logue drop down menu? If so, do […]

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Happy 40th Birthday

By on December 9, 2008 in Hardware

Happy Birth­day to the Mouse. The com­puter mouse turns 40 via Mac­world. Stay tuned for our favorite mice used by us here at About This Mac

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Magic Eraser + Macbook = New

By on December 5, 2008 in Macbook

For those of you that have a white mac­book and have had it for any length of time will notice the dis­col­oration of the palm rests. What once was a bright clean white mac­book as turned to a rather ugly look­ing colour. This can be an issue when you are show­ing off your amaz­ing Macbook […]

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Customize About This Mac

By on November 29, 2008 in Customizing, Tweaks

Cus­tomiza­tion of your Mac is one of the best ways to bring your per­son­al­ity to your Mac. And what bet­ter place for us to start talk­ing about cus­tomiza­tion than with the About This Mac screen. Now some of you might not even know where to find this screen. So to begin click on the Apple […]

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uTorrent comes to Mac

uTorrent comes to Mac

By on November 28, 2008 in Software

  One of the most pop­u­lar Bit­Tor­rent appli­ca­tion, uTor­rent, has finally found its way to our Macs. It is offi­cially avail­able. This first offi­cial release is still beta, and Intel Macs only, and the devel­op­ers are aware that it still may con­tain bugs. How­ever, it looks great and I can’t wait to test it out. Visit […]

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Creating Your Own Shortcuts

By on November 20, 2008 in iWork, Mac OS, Shortcuts

Jared asks: I have been using Pages for a lot of my desk­top pub­lish­ing needs while on my Mac, how­ever, I still need peo­ple in the PC world to view my doc­u­ments. I have been using the Export func­tion quite a lot and noticed that it does not have a short­cut key next to it. […]

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