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Need to change the “home” computer for your iPhone/iTouch?

by Wyn Matthews March 17, 2010 Mac Maintenance

Here’s a horror story from the field, made un-horrible with a just few steps: You buy a new computer – and your iPhone is synched to the old one. Bummer. It can only belong to one iTunes library and iTunes now wants to erase your iPhone. Now what? These simple steps will move your iPhone [...]

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How to send LARGE FILES – Dropbox

by Chris Foley February 22, 2010 Digital Lifestyle

Let’s face it: our Digital-Lives are getting just a bit more complicated every day! It started with emails, and then .doc files, and .pdfs. Then came digital music, and digital photos. And now each one of us has 2 or 3 devices floating around the home or office that record video as well as take [...]

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10-Second Tip: Backup your Boot Camp Partition

by Wyn Matthews January 14, 2010 10-Second Tips

Time machine is a breeze. We’ve been a really big fan of Time Machine since before 10.5 Leopard was even available. Backups used to be really difficult to manage, and restoring from a backup was a task that your average user simply could not do themselves. With Time Machine, Apple has put more power and [...]

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Security Beat: Safeguard Your Sensitive Documents

by Chris Foley February 25, 2009 Mac Maintenance

I get this one a lot. Security. More and more of us have portable computers now. What if my computer gets stolen? How can I protect myself. What is this FileVault thing that Apple offers? Should I use it? These are complex questions without simple answers. The fact is that it depends on what you’re [...]

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Backups are no longer optional

by Chris Foley January 22, 2009 Mac Maintenance

“It’s time we had a little talk. It’s about something uncomfortable, but we can’t keep pretending that you don’t have a problem. I don’t know how to say this, and I’m kind of embarrassed, so I’m just going to come out and say it. How recent is your latest backup?” Of course, I jest, but [...]

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Healthy Happy Mac : Permissions

by Chris Foley November 9, 2008 Mac Maintenance

This monthly column is offered as an exclusive to our newsletter subscribers, and contains information that will save you money by increasing your productivity and your uptime. How’s that sound? —————— This month, I’m going to address a tech trick that is at the same time one of the most common maintenance problems for the [...]

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