Once you've successfully transferred all your emails, contacts, documents, and media files on to your Mac you can turn to your software - and our next Gotcha! There are the obvious problems, such as your favorite PC program or utility not being available in a Mac version but with a bit of searching on sites like www.MacUpdate.com I'm sure you'll find something that does a similar job.
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As consumers take full advantage of the digital gadgetry that has permeated their lives, they have learned more and more about the importance of backing up the data that their devices produce. And the best back up scenarios involve backing up the backup. I learned the hard way. In the last two weeks I've had two external hard drives fail, a Maxtor One Touch III, and a two-year old Seagate 500GB eSATA external drive (in the case of the Seagate, the interface failed, and not the hard drive). ...Read More »
This is the second part of an article pointing out a few of the 'Gotchas' that can come along when switching from a Windows PC to an Apple Mac. It also applies to those who want to integrate a Mac into their home network....Read More »
The iPhone has changed how the mobile phone market is viewed. More importantly, the iPhone applications are changing how customers interact with their data, documents and files. In this article, you will see how the iPhone is the tool that is exposing the potential of Cloud Computing to the masses and is converting this new technology to a mainstream solution. ...Read More »
In this Lynda.com video training series, host Christopher Breen discusses the first things you need to do before you get comfortable with you new Mac and one of them is to go to the store to get an external USB/FireWire hard drive to take advantage of Time Machine, which enables you to essentially reset your computer to a different day, restoring your files, how your system loooked and so forth. ...Read More »
My original plan was for this to be a straightforward review of Apple's updated 24-inch iMac that was announced in April. In such cases I ask the manufacturer for a review unit, they send it to me on loan, I TEST it for a few weeks, write my review and finally pack everything back in its box and ship it back. ...Read More »
The software maker plans to announce on Wednesday a price cut for its
flash-based models. The 4GB version will drop to $99, the 8GB model
will drop by $10 to $139, and the 16GB model will sell for $179, down
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While its original camera has been out for a year - the newest offering in the Flip line up is now HD. And, while this tiny camera offers a simple version of the HD spec, the 1280 video does give you the option to easily feed the clips into your HD timeline without difficult scale manipulation.
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I just finished testing the new Canon prosumer DSLR, 50D and its one nice camera. It offers many improvements over the previous model, the 40D. Its easier to use than the 40D, is the same size, actually weighs less yet outperforms it in almost every category. For the price ($1,399- just $100 more than the list price of the 40D when it was introduced last year) the 50D offers a a whole lot more bang for your buck.
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Altec Lansing has been building iPod speaker systems for quite a while now, and before that was a purveyor of PC speaker systems in various price ranges. As Apple has offered multiple generations of its iPod music and video player, Altec Lansing has offered a speaker system to take advantage of what the iPod can do.
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As consumers take full advantage of the digital gadgetry that has permeated their lives, they have learned more and more about the importance of backing up the data that their devices produce. And the best back up scenarios involve backing up the backup. I learned the hard way. In the last two weeks I've had two external hard drives fail, a Maxtor One Touch III, and a two-year old Seagate 500GB eSATA external drive (in the case of the Seagate, the interface failed, and not the hard drive).
...Read More »
This is the second part of an article pointing out a few of the 'Gotchas' that can come along when switching from a Windows PC to an Apple Mac. It also applies to those who want to integrate a Mac into their home network.
...Read More »
The iPhone has changed how the mobile phone market is viewed. More importantly, the iPhone applications are changing how customers interact with their data, documents and files. In this article, you will see how the iPhone is the tool that is exposing the potential of Cloud Computing to the masses and is converting this new technology to a mainstream solution.
...Read More »
In this Lynda.com video training series, host Christopher Breen discusses the first things you need to do before you get comfortable with you new Mac and one of them is to go to the store to get an external USB/FireWire hard drive to take advantage of Time Machine, which enables you to essentially reset your computer to a different day, restoring your files, how your system loooked and so forth.
...Read More »
My original plan was for this to be a straightforward review of Apple's updated 24-inch iMac that was announced in April. In such cases I ask the manufacturer for a review unit, they send it to me on loan, I TEST it for a few weeks, write my review and finally pack everything back in its box and ship it back.
...Read More »
Have you been wanting to get a blu-ray player but have been waiting for the price to go down? The wait is over.
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