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Backing Up

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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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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How safe are your passwords?

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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uTorrent comes to Mac

uTorrent comes to Mac

  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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Microsoft Publisher for Mac

Melissa asks: Do you know if there’s a Microsoft Pub­lisher ver­sion for mac? i know they have office.…(working on a newslet­ter that’s done in pub­lisher, for now any­way, but I have my mac) Unfor­tu­nately there isn’t any easy way to con­vert a Microsoft Pub­lisher file to some­thing that you can edit on your Mac. You can […]

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Loud Fan and Low Battery — What to Do?

Mikul asks: Hey, our MacBook’s fan has been run­ning really loud lately. It used to not at all, and now it does 100% of the time, even when we’re not run­ning any­thing. Also, the bat­tery has been last­ing for a lot less time than it used to. Any ideas of what it is or what […]

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Creating Your Own 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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