Author: Mike Moffit
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Data Storage Capacities 101
The terms used to measure digital storage can be very mysterious. Most people have heard of kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes but it takes a deep understanding to easily associate these terms with understandable amounts of information. When people hear “6 feet” they understand it as “about the length of a person” or understand “40 miles”…
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_Hello Fellow Technophiles,_ The Apple news for today is that they have released updates for iOS 10 and macOS Sierra: iOS 10.2 and macOS 10.12.2. Please note that these are *updates* and not *upgrades* and we therefore recommend them for all users currently using iOS 10 or Sierra. “What is the difference between an update…
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Take Advantage Of Section 179 Tax Benefits!
As you are considering your end of year purchases, don’t forget to take into account section 179 deductions that may be available to your business. The tax code often allows you to deduct the full cost of equipment now, even as you’re paying for it over the next couple of years. So if you purchase…
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Take Advantage Of Section 179 Tax Benefits!
As you are considering your end of year purchases, don’t forget to take into account section 179 deductions that may be available to your business. The tax code often allows you to deduct the full cost of equipment now, even as you’re paying for it over the next couple of years. So if you purchase…
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Induction in Computers
A reader of my last article pointed out a bit of a mistake on my part in saying that we generally don’t create AC electromagnets. When I said that, I was thinking of strictly electromagnets in the basic sense of the word. While AC electromagnets are always going to suffer from magnetic hysteresis (which can…
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Slowing Down: Part 3
Over my last two Tech Tails articles I’ve armed you with information about system performance related to memory. We discussed what RAM is, the different categories of memory in macOS and how they are used by the operating system. We later looked at how you can investigate and monitor your memory resources with Activity Monitor,…
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_Hello Fellow Technophiles,_ Technology moves faster and faster every day. The power of a processor continues to grow relatively close to the rate predicted by Intel founder Gordon Moore in 1965. This prediction, now known as “*Moore’s Law,*”:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore’s_law stated that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit would double every year for at least…