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Tech Tip: Have You Cleaned Your Mac Lately?

Our Macs are remarkably reliable and are evolving to be even more reliable as moving parts like fans and hard disk drives are replaced with passive cooling systems and solid state drives. But there are still members of the Mac family that can be defeated by a common foe -- dust. Macs with internal fans for cooling have a tendency to...

Tech 101: Introduction to the Mac’s Terminal App, Part One

Terminal may be one of the least used but most powerful apps included with a Mac. At first glance, Terminal seems to be the antithesis of the Mac's friendly GUI (Graphical User Interface), presenting instead a simple command line interface...

Cutaway view of internal HDD showing platter and read/write mechanism

Hard Drive Failures: How You Can Predict and Prepare for Them

It’s an inevitability that all HDDs eventually fail. However, being prepared for drive failure can lessen the potential impact on your workflow. SoftRAID, the premier software RAID solution, makes failure prediction possible with its built-in monitor. Most disks will start...

Tech Tip: How iCloud Photo Library and the Photos App Work

The holidays are hitting this month and that means time with family and friends as well as making memories with your iPhone or iPad camera. You might very well take enough photos or video to run out of space on your iOS...

Still Time to Take Advantage of Section 179 Tax Break

The New Year is drawing ever closer, but there is still time for U.S. taxpayers to take advantage of the Section 179 depreciation deduction before 2016 comes to a close. To put it simply, Section 179 allows businesses to deduct...

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