Category: 833: Installer Magic, One Player to Play Them All, Backup and Cloning

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It’s that time of the year again! Our famous Garage Sale is happening now!!! Over the past few weeks, we’ve scoured the warehouse from top to bottom searching for the coolest closeout deals. We’ve emerged with all sorts of Mac goodies in addition to some dusty 78s, a candle holder and some truly fantastic hand…

Backup is always an important subject that I discuss with my consulting clients. Time Machine is Apple’s built-in technology that backs up all your files, including multiple versions of files that have changed. You can restore your whole computer after a hard drive failure, or just restore individual files that may have been deleted. I…

Back in the olden days of computing (6 or 7 years ago) playing a particular video on a Mac could sometimes be quite a challenge. In order to play a certain type of video file, you would need a specific video player to go with it, and in the computing world there are many, many…

With Lion and now Mountain Lion, after purchasing the OS from the App store, the first step is downloading an installer app. This installer app, which can be found in your Applications folder, is a powerful and useful tool. Before allowing it to complete the install of the newly updated version of the OS, you…

Hello all, More perfect weather this week, just in time to rescue my wife’s tomatoes from me and my family. Between sweltering heat and crushing downpours, her tomatoes-in-a-bucket have just had a rough summer. I may not have drilled adequate drain holes in said buckets, but I’m going to blame Mother Nature and my busy…