Category: 855: From the Archives: Doesn’t Your Drive Need a Genius?, In From the Cold, It’s All In The Genes

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Not everyone uses SATA these days, IDE drives do still exist. This is your chance to grab a slice of storage history at a fantastic price. Save $40 on a 320GB 3.5″ Western Digital Caviar Blue IDE Internal Hard Drive.

Data storage in the digital age has changed the way we interact with the world. It is cheap, convenient, and fast. We snap thousands of pictures with no thought of developing costs. We can have terabytes of music and video stored (almost) literally in the palm of our hands. We rarely think about the possibility…

It has been very cold here recently (sub zero) in the past week. Usually, we get several questions a week about whether or not one should leave a computer in the car when it’s so cold out. The bottom line is: don’t do it. The operating range for Apple computers is 50-95 degrees (F). Most…

__Originally featured in__ “*Tech Tails issue #711*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/techtails/tt711/ One of the most popular questions I’m asked as a service technician is, “Should I have a utility to check up on my Mac?” The short answer is, yes, you probably should. While there are hundreds of utilities out there, I’m going to focus on the one I…

Hello all, The cold persists, and at the time of writing this, the snow has pretty much all sublimated away, though we are expecting some precipitation today. For now, everything is covered in the friendly, familiar sheen of road salt and mud and my kids look at me sadly as I drag them in their…