Category: 784: TotW: Don’t Forget Your Master Password, Mac mini SSD Upgrades, How to Eject a Disk When Your Computer Won’t Boot, Easy Hard Drive Failure Prevention
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How to Eject a Disk When Your Computer Won't Boot
If you’ve ever called Small Dog or Apple for technical support because your Mac wouldn’t boot, odds are it was suggested that you attempt a reinstallation of your operating system from the disks that came with your computer. The problem here is that if the reinstallation fails for whatever reason, there is no apparent way…
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Easy Hard Drive Failure Prevention
It’s true that laptop hard drives tend to fail before desktop hard drives (unless your desktop computer uses a laptop hard drive, as is the case with the Mac mini). This is simply because laptops tend to be moved around much more than desktops. I see customers close their laptops to make them sleep–which is…
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Mac mini Solid State Drive Upgrades
I’m very glad to announce a great new offer here in the Small Dog Service department. It is an opportunity for a tremendous upgrade to the newly released Mac minis: the addition of a second hard drive. This can be any 2.5″ SATA hard drive. This upgrade can either serve as an enormous addition in…
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Tip of the Week: Don't Forget Your Master Password
FileVault is an encryption technology first included in Mac OS 10.4 that’s useful for anyone whose computer contains sensitive information. It can prevent unauthorized access to the items in your home folder by encrypting the entire folder with a current government-approved standard called Advanced Encryption Standard with 128-bit keys (AES-128). When you first turn on…
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Happy Tuesday, With another week of flood recovery behind us, the piles of debris are much less common. Much remains to be done, though, to get back to normal. Huge expanses of roads remain washed out where rivers carved new paths, buildings remain moist and mold-prone, inundated crops must be plowed under and many bridges…