Category: 727: Core Conundrum, Backup of Your Backup: Recap, Protection by Firmware Password

“AppleJack”:http://applejack.sourceforge.net/ is a command-line tool and collection of scripts for file system repair, and is used in Single User Mode when your computer doesn’t boot all the way to the desktop. Very often, we see computers in our shops that will power on but not progress further than a blue screen, or even past the…

There are plenty of ways to secure the data on your laptop. There’s FileVault, which encrypts your entire home folder and often causes corruption-induced heartbreak; you can store your files in the cloud using your iDisk, a home server in conjunction with Back to My Mac and MobileMe; or Google Docs, where you can keep…

Yesterday, I had to give a customer the bad news that both the hard drive in his iMac G5 and the hard drive in his 2008 Time Capsule had failed; talk about a difficult conversation! Luckily, the data on the iMac appears to be recoverable, but the Time Capsule drive, which was his sole backup…

Though I was excited when Apple freshened up their slightly stagnant Mac Pro model a few weeks back, glancing at the initial processor configurations left me dazed and confused. Not as much: “12 cores? Heavy man!” but more in terms of just which processor(s) went with which machine. Visiting Apple’s product page did little to…

Happy Tuesday, Tending to my garden a few evenings ago, I realized that nighttime is arriving much sooner than I’d become used to. It was light enough at 9:00 PM a few weeks ago to read outside without any artificial light, but it’s going to be another whole year until that happens again. While diminished…