Category: 941: Migrating from Time Machine; Exporting Your Photo Library; Thunderbolt vs. Mini DisplayPort

There are two different (but similar) ports that appear on different Macs that often get confused. They are the Mini DisplayPort and the Thunderbolt port. Please take a look at the picture on the right to refresh your memory as to what they look like. As you can see the plug is exactly the same…

For a lot of people, pictures are the things that eat up space on their internal hard drives. Add in the more frequent use of solid state drives with relatively small capacities on the new MacBooks and this leaves people needing external or cloud storage for their photos. I personally recommend exporting your entire iPhoto…

We talk a lot about how to make a Time Machine backup and how important it is, but we don’t often talk about how to restore or transfer your data using a Time Machine backup. There’s a couple of ways to get data off the Time Machine backup, the easiest of which is to transfer…

_Hello Fellow Technophiles,_ I want to assure you right here at the top that this week’s edition of Tech Tails will NOT contain any Star Wars: The Force Awakens spoilers. Despite being firmly in the Star Trek camp of the great sci-fi divide (see picture at left for proof), I am also a huge Star…