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Tech Tip: What To Do When iCloud Photo Library Isn’t The Solution For You

In last week's article, I discussed how iCloud Photo Library works to synchronize all of  your photos and videos on all of your devices -- Mac, iOS, Apple TV, Windows PCs and so on -- so that regardless of the storage available on any device, you have access to your entire visual media library. iCloud Photo Library provides a constant...

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...

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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...

Rocket Yard Guide: What Is Purgeable Space in macOS?

Having problems figuring out how much free space is available on your Mac? You're not the only one. With the arrival of macOS Sierra, Apple changed how the OS calculates free space on a Mac. The change has more than...

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