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GreenSavers: Ideas on how to re-use that old drive (and save some cash, too).

So you’ve just upgraded to a new hard drive in your computer and you now you have the old SATA hard drive sitting on your desk staring at you. Rather than delegating it to dark confines of the desk drawer labeled “miscellaneous stuff”, why not put it to good use and save some cash by using what you already have....

Quick Tech Tip: Perian Updated

Those of you who play a lot of video on their Macs and are running OSX 10.4.7 or later may want to pick up the latest version of Perian, which was updated earlier this afternoon. For those of you unfamiliar...

We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges!

Mac users have forever scoffed at the idea of installing anti-virus software on their Macs. After all, in all the years that Mac OS X has been out on the wild (ten years and counting) there has not been one credible Mac virus that caused any sort of damage

Go faster with eSATA and OWC.

Many OWC and Newer Technology storage solutions can be hooked up via eSATA. For those of you who don’t know what eSATA is, it is a fast device connection currently capable of data transfer speeds up to 3.0Gbps. This results...

Ejecting stubborn CDs/DVDs from your Mac

It's not incredibly common, but it does happen once in a while—a disc gets stuck in your optical drive. There are a number of ways that this could happen, but it usually occurs when the disk is unmounted but doesn't get...

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