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Move the Tunes…

Several months ago, I wrote an article about slimming down your Mac's hard drive. Go ahead, check it out. I'll wait. As part of that article, I talked about moving your iTunes library to a separate hard drive. Aside from the space savings (especially if you're using a laptop and your music collection goes into the several-hundred-gigabyte range, like many of...

Use your keyboard to speed up your work flow.

No matter how often you use a computer, you never really know everything. Sure, you may have the basics down and may be amazingly efficient in your day-to-day applications, but there’s always that one thing that could, over time, speed...

Takin’ it off…

Now that I have your attention... I just wanted to pass along a little tip for people who want to replace the optical drive(s) in the following model Mac towers. PowerMac G4 QuickSilver / QuickSilver 2002 Power Macintosh G4 “Mirrored...

See what’s going on “behind the scenes” on your Mac.

Have you ever wondered how all the resources in your Mac are being used? I know I have. At any given point in the day, I’ll usually have a number of things going at once: Software downloads, graphic processing, file transfers, et...

And now for something completely different…..

We've decided to expand our video offerings, not only are we developing and expanding our instructional series of how-to videos, but we are starting our educational series of videos. The first in this series is a look at exactly how...

Auto repair and computer repair are not too different.

In my adventures as a technician, I have come across a number of people who want to upgrade their own computers, but are not quite sure what to do. Actually, I empathize with them, because while I can take apart...

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