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HelpHow to set up Time Machine in Mountain Lion
If you value your data—whether it’s some perfect photos you took last weekend, your entire music collection on iTunes, or your draft of the next...
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HelpStorage backups: When you absolutely can’t lose any data
If you’re already backing up your Mac, pat yourself on the back. Having any sort of backup is much better than having none, and your probability...
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HelpWork-arounds for sound loss, trailer failure, and over-full iPads
My Apple hardware has recently been bothered by several unrelated bugs—ranging from alert sound loss on my Mac Pro to free space mysteriously disappearing...
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NewsThe Pirate Bay moves to the cloud
The Pirate Bay migrated its entire operation to the cloud on Wednesday, Torrentfreak.com reports. Pirate Bay officials say this move in effect makes...
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NewsApple extends iCloud storage upgrades
If you had a MobileMe account for online storage, Apple has good news for you: The complimentary extension of storage services that was supposed...
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App GuideStock Keeper for Mac
Digital asset management can be a real hassle, particularly if you have thousands of image, audio, and video files that you need to find and use as...
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NewsApparent iCloud glitch has Apple offering users free 25GB storage until 2050
Either Apple’s iCloud accounting system is suffering a glitch or the company has suddenly become quite generous. Customers who had subscribed...
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App GuideClusters for Mac
Clusters is a file-compression app unlike any I’ve seen before. You tell it which folders you’d like it to compress, and it does so silently...
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NewsMobileMe users to see bonus iCloud storage end Sunday
Former MobileMe customers got a pretty sweet deal with Apple closed down that cloud storage service and replaced it with iCloud: a transitional period...
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ReviewsLaCie Porsche P’9230 desktop drive
Apple hasn’t put USB 3 on any of its desktop Macs yet, but it can still be useful to have a nice big desktop drive waiting back at home or in your...
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NewsSamsung increases future smartphone storage capacity to 128GB
Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor arm has begun volume production of 128GB embedded memory modules for next-generation smartphones, tablets...
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ReviewsElgato Thunderbolt SSD
There’s only one thing better than a speedy solid-state drive, and that’s an SSD with a Thunderbolt connection to make it even speedier....
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BlogsHard disk drives vs. solid-state drives: Are SSDs finally worth the money?
Three years ago, I wrote a story comparing hard disk drives to solid state drives (SSDs) based on capacity, performance and cost. A lot has changed...
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ReviewsLaCie Rugged Key USB memory stick
Cloud storage services such as Dropbox – and, of course, Apple’s own iCloud – make it easy to store your important files online and gain access...
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Gadget GuideWD My Passport for Mac 2TB (USB 3.0)
Western Digital has revamped its My Passport for Mac portable hard drive with a USB 3.0 interface and 2 TB capacity for increased speeds and storage...
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HelpShrink Preview files without ruining image quality
Savvy Preview users know they can do some interesting things to PDFs—convert them to black-and-white or sepia tone, increase or decrease their lightness,...
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