Category: 716: Entourage Follows The Rules, Hybrid Hard Drives: The Best of Both Worlds?, Back to My (Sleeping) Mac

At a recent consult configuring “MobileMe”:http://www.smalldog.com/product/74171/ for a customer already using it on two other computers, I reminded her that the service is good for much more than just email. “MobileMe”:http://www.smalldog.com/product/74171/ provides Mail, iCal, Address Book, preferences, dock, keychain and widget synchronization between multiple Macs, web page design and hosting, and plenty of other features.…

Seagate recently “announced”:http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=momentus-xt-seagate-delivers-fastest-pr&vgnextoid=afb2308aaecb8210VgnVCM1000001a48090aRCRD availability of its first hybrid hard drive. According to Seagate, this hard drive is 100% faster than “conventional” 2.5-inch 5400 RPM hard drive, and 80% faster than a 7200RPM laptop drive. What makes this a hybrid drive is the 4GB of solid state storage on board. The drive is able to learn…

Last week, I headed out to collect inventory for a local business who recently enlisted the help of our consulting department. While I went around from machine to machine capturing System Profiler information, I also asked each user if he or she was experiencing any issues. If the issues were reasonably simple, I attempted to…

Happy Tuesday, After a long winter, it can be hard to believe that summer will ever come again. But once the farmers harvest the first round of hay, and the valley starts smelling of chlorophyll and lilac blossoms, we all breathe a sigh of relief that summer is really here. With the forecast calling for…