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A hard drive failure is one of the most painful problems than can affect your computer. Sadly, Apple has identified that a “very small” percentage of MacBooks sold between May 2006 and the end of 2007 are exhibiting higher than normal hard drive failure rates. If you have one of… Continue Reading »

G-Technology is known for their smooth lines and clean designs. The G-Drive Q is no exception. It’s the classiest way to add storage to your Mac. It’s a great way to add gigabytes to your Mac for any of the great reasons that you might have, whether that would be… Continue Reading »

Yesterday, Apple somewhat quietly updated both the Time Capsule and Airport Extreme. Most everything stayed the same as previous version with the exception of a few fun details like guest networking and simultaneous dual-band Wi-Fi. Continue Reading »

Snow Leopard will not have any new features. Though this isn’t technically true, it’s what Apple says. So why would I want to buy it? Because, assuming Apple delivers on their promises, it will be the best Mac OS X experience I’ve ever had. Now, keep in mind none of… Continue Reading »

Time Machine is Leopard’s built-in backup solution. Backing up every hour, Time Machine keeps all of your files safe on either an external FireWire/USB drive, or a networked drive like Apple’s own Time Capsule. Time Machine is a pretty limited service at the moment - you can only have it… Continue Reading »

Time Capsule is Apple’s answer to network-attached Time Machine backups within a local area network. It allows multiple people to back-up wirelessly or wired, making it ideal for laptop users. However, online backups are far more secure - as they’re stored in a datacenter away from your own home. A… Continue Reading »

According to a Mac Rumors report, Mac OS 10.5.3 could be very near.  On Friday, the update was seeded to developers.  Starting in february with 10.5.3 (9d10), Apple has slowly been seeding more and more updates to developers, this time with probably the final version (9d19).  No intended date of… Continue Reading »

After a recent Firmware Update causing Time Machine preferences to see Hard Disks attached to Airport Extreme Base Stations, many AEBS owners were ecstatic over the Time Capsule-like ability to do wireless backups. But as I personally found out when the Disk refused to mount on the fifth backup, this… Continue Reading »

Apple today rolled out a Time Machine and Airport combo update. It’s fixes some stuff, blah blah blah. But as soon as I saw “Firmware Updates,” I had a gut feeling that Apple had restored a long lost feature: backing up to Hard Drives attached to the Airport Extreme Base… Continue Reading »

Freeridecoding just pushed out SmartBackup 2.2.2 with several important updates. French localization, and SMB support for Leopard are just a few improvements. SmartBackup is very a very lightweight app for backups to hard drives, network share points, webDAV and USB sticks. One awesome feature of this backup app is the… Continue Reading »