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10.6.8: The Little Update That Didn’t

Apple released the OS X 10.6.8 update last week. According to the Knowledge Base article on this update: The 10.6.8 update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes that: Enhance the Mac App Store to get your Mac...

Final Cut Pro X is released. OWC can help get your Mac up to the task.

Apple released Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5 and Compressor on Tuesday. If you follow that sort of thing, you’ve probably already seen plenty of reviews and walkthroughs of the new features, new layout and overall performance enhancements of Apple’s “professional” video editing...

Blu-ray and Macs? With OWC, Yes!

While fairly common on many Windows boxes, Mac OS X does not support playback of Blu-ray movies on your Mac, and it's not likely to do so any time soon. That means that if you’ve added a Mac mini to your...

Adventures in creating an OctoCore Mac Pro – Part 1

Considerations in Application of a GeoThermal Heat Exchange for Environmental Comfort Following the Upgrade of a MacPro1,1 with Two Over-Clocked Intel X5350 Engineering Samples that Necessitated the Addition of a Water Cooling System or “How I Learned To Stop Worrying...

Dismantling the Trojan Horse (or why MacGuard isn’t a concern)

Aside from a couple of “conceptual” examples shown at conferences here and there, the only real piece of malware on the Mac that’s made it “into the wild” is the now infamous MAC Defender and its variants....one of which, MacGuard, has...

Further Explained: Apple’s iMac 2011 Model Hard Drive ‘Restrictions’

It's incredible the coverage generated by yesterday's blog article on the further iMac upgrade restrictions. I'd like to personally address some questions, context, and provide additional technical detail concerning this issue. I want to be very clear that I think these are absolutely...

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