Category: 954: Cloning; Ejecting; Resetting; Expanding

An issue you may run across, but hopefully do not, in the lifetime of you Mac portable is a swollen battery. The first symptoms are usually your trackpad not clicking or a weird bulge on the bottom of your machine. A swollen battery is not common but it does happen. Now there is usually not…

Sometimes your Mac might not power on, or might be having weird issues. There are a couple of “magical” reset button combinations that are generally harmless and pretty easy to do. These techniques are most useful on the MacBooks. For example, the iMac doesn’t have a SMC reset key combination. Instead, you can just unplug…

Failing to safely eject hardware from a computer is one of the most common mistakes I see computer users make. Most people do not realize that unplugging a flash drive or an external hard drive without ejecting it first can damage the files stored on it, or even the hardware itself in some cases. If…

_Hello Fellow Technophiles,_ As is bound to happen with this many nerds under one roof, Star Trek came up again today in a discussion at work. The debate was whether every time a person goes through the teleporter do they die and what is received on the other end is a clone or does the…