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Apple App Store Contest

Apple’s on their way to hav­ing sold 1 bil­lion apps (!) from the iPhone/iPod touch App store and they are hold­ing a con­test where you could win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Cap­sule, and a Mac­Book Pro. Each time you down­load an app, you are entered but you can also […]

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Macworld 2009 Keynote

Update: Speech is over. New ver­sions of iLife and iWork (sites not updated cur­rently), updated 17″ Mac­Book Pro and the news that the iTunes music store is going com­pletely DRM free by the end of this quar­ter, as well as vari­able pric­ing on songs (no more $0.99 only, now the song price will range from […]

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Which MacBook Should I Buy?

Jen­nifer asks: This ol’ lap­top (Dell) of mine is slowly dying (CMOS bat­tery, CD drive is dead, other wonky stuff). So, of course, I’m pon­der­ing get­ting a Mac­Book before I head back to Africa in Feb­ru­ary since I’ll be gone for four months. I guess my biggest ques­tion is Mac­Book vs. Mac­Book Pro (I like the […]

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What’s Taking Up All That Space?

What’s Taking Up All That Space?

Alexa asks: I haven’t installed any­thing new. I haven’t added any large files to my com­puter. But I keep run­ning low on hard drive space! How do I find out what is tak­ing up all the room on my iBook? Apple’s Finder doesn’t cut it. It’ll tell you how much space is left on your hard […]

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Time Machine Drive Size (Mac)

Time Machine Drive Size (Mac)

Cur­tis asks: I bought a new drive and am par­ti­tion­ing it to limit how much Time Machine uses. How big should I make the par­ti­tion? Short Answer: I’d say around 25% larger than what your computer’s hard drive size. Back­ing up is SO impor­tant, and Apple’s new oper­at­ing sys­tem includes a very pow­er­ful and easy to […]

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