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Keep up with Upgrades with a New Computer Fund

Computers don’t last forever technologically. When was the last time you fired up your Apple IIe to do anything relevant? Nostalgia aside, technology constantly moves forward and sometimes its...

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Prevent the iPhone Jailbreak virus and Protect your iPhone

The first iPhone / iPod Touch virus was cute, it rick-rolled unsuspecting victims. Now, that silly virus has been re-engineered into something sinister. The same trick that rick-rolled unsuspecting...

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End the 32Bit/64Bit Confusion with Startup Mode Selector

The whole 64 Bit Snow Leopard hoopla got a little murky when it was discovered that Snow Leopard’s kernal is really booting into 32 Bit on some systems. Is your Snow Leopard booting in 32 Bit or 64...

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5 Reasons Why Partitioning a Drive is Old Advice

Partitioning is a way of splitting one physical hard drive into many other hard drives that used to be done for performance and multiple OS booting. Like repairing permissions, zapping the PRAM,...

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The Cheap and Simple Fix for Your Older Mac’s Broken Wireless

What happens when your MacBook Pro’s wireless card breaks or the antennae starts giving you horrible reception? Well normally, if your Mac was less that a year old, it would be covered under warranty....

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Securely Erasing a Bad / Dead Hard Drive

Here’s the situation, your hard drive died and you’re about to take it to the Apple Store for repairs. You have a backup handy because you’re a good computer user and Time Machine is so easy to use....

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Dealing With 10 Common MacBook/Pro Problems

Everyone’s heard the rumor that Mac’s are perfect, never have problems and life is so much easier with OS X. Nobody’s perfect and neither is OS X, Mac hardware or Apple. In fact, there’s a few common...

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Bargain Hunting? How to Avoid Used Laptop Headaches

Laptops are expensive. One way to get around this is to buy a gently used laptop. But what happens when you buy a dud? There’s no store to take it back to and you may be past the original warranty...

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Fixing Damaged CDs and DVDs

Whats worse than watching a good Netflix Movie that’s getting to a really suspenseful part and suddenly the screen stops.. The beach-ball appears.. Then DVD Player quits and says the disc is scratched...

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Recycling your old Mac and other E-Waste

Once your computer gets old and its upgrade time, what do you do with your old machine? You definitely don’t want it sitting in your basement for the next 30 years. Tossing it in a dumpster is out, its...

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Recover Lost Data from Memory Cards and USB Drives

Memory cards, USB Drives and even SSDs are small, hold a good amount of data and don’t have all those pesky data corruption issues that traditional hard drives have… Or do they? Yes, even data on a...

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Replacing an External Drive

One fact that many consumers aren’t aware of is that external drives can easily be replaced or upgraded. All it takes is a little know-how, total lack of respect for possible warranties and a small...

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How to Troubleshoot a Power Issue

Power issues are annoying. Either your laptop shuts off suddenly because the power cord unplugged, the battery craps out after 20 minutes, or it just doesn’t turn on at all.. Like all laptop...

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Eliminate Your Unreliable Hard Drive with a Solid State Drive

Ever lose your data due to a bad Hard Drive? Or were you lucky and just had a drive go bad? Traditional Hard Drive technology is roughly 40 years old. It’s mechanical and was designed for stationary...

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Data Recovery – The Easy, Hard and Send It Away Way

When your hard drive fails or your laptop breaks, how do you recover lost data? Sure, having a backup is great.. But what if you don’t? Or what if your backup isn’t so recent? Just because a hard drive...

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