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Tech 101: RAID 5 Offers Big Storage, High Performance, Reliability for Your Mac

Today’s data storage needs are climbing exponentially; with 1 to 3TB hard disk or Fusion drives increasingly common in high-end iMacs and up to 2TB internal SSD options for the 2013 Mac Pro. With that amount of storage built into today’s Macs, fast and secure backup is a necessity. That’s why RAID 5, and OWC’s ThunderBay 4 solution in particular, is...

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Tech Tip: How To Banish Adobe Flash From Your Mac

Adobe Flash has had a checkered history, at least for Mac users. For years, it was one of the few ways that you could view multimedia content in a web browser. Along came HTML5, and suddenly Flash didn't seem so...

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Tech Tip: Automatically Change Your OS X Desktop Background

While some people are content to use whatever default desktop background Apple puts in the latest version of Mac OS X, others get bored easily and want to see something new every so often. Fortunately, there's a quick and easy...

Tech Tip: Creating Reminders Based on Location

Apple's Reminders app is probably one of the most underused apps on both iOS and Mac OS X. Many people place meeting or personal reminders into Calendars, setting notifications to tell them when they need to do something. As for...

Tech Tip: Using Siri as a Quick Calculator

Sometimes pulling up the calculator on an iPhone just to make a quick calculation can take more time than if you just did the numbers on a piece of paper. You have to find the app, clear any previous results,...

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