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How to Erase a Mac Hard Drive

Posted 09/26/2011 at 11:28am | by Ray Aguilera

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Is there any way to completely erase the hard drive on the MacBook Pro?

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How to Burn a Lion Install DVD and Create Bootable Thumb Drive

Posted 07/20/2011 at 3:20pm | by Cory Bohon

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Lion is Apple’s first disc-less distribution of Mac OS X, and as such, is leaving many users with slow or no internet connections without any fun today. We’re going to show you how to easily burn your Lion installer to a disc in order to install the OS on a computer without a network connection, or even as a way to make an emergency backup copy of your $30 investment.

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Posted 02/08/2011 at 3:53pm | by Cory Bohon

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Flash drives are getting better, harder, faster, stronger--and smaller. As storage becomes more portable, so does the need to secure your data. Read on and we'll show you how easy it can be to create a secure disk image on your thumb drive to store all your top secret files.

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Posted 12/23/2010 at 1:17pm | by Seamus Bellamy

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We've all know that sink feeling one gets in the pit of their guts when their computer fails to work as expected. Unfortunately, without having your MacBook Pro in the same room, it's difficult for us to figure out exactly what it is that's keeping it from starting up. That said, we can point you in the direction of a few first steps that you might want to take.

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AppleJack Disk Utility Updated for Snow Leopard

Posted 07/22/2010 at 6:13am | by J.R. Bookwalter

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With all of the news flying back and forth about Apple’s various iDevices, it’s refreshing to discover that utilities for Mac OS X haven’t gotten lost in the shuffle. One such disk maintenance utility, the open-source AppleJack, has finally been updated to work with Snow Leopard.

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Master 5 OS X Utilities in 5 Minutes

Posted 12/07/2009 at 3:36pm | by Cory Bohon

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We’re sure many Mac users have seen the Utilities folder inside of the Applications folder and wondered what the applications contained inside do. Maybe they control the weather or give you super powers. The reality is bit less exciting, but still incredibly useful to even the newest Mac user.

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Back That Mac Up

Posted 02/28/2006 at 6:01pm | by Niko Coucouvanis

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Backup software that's user-friendly and useful? Must be Apple's.We're relentless about telling you to back up your files and Mac OS X settings - and now that Apple's released Backup 3 (free with .Mac account or free 60-day trial, www.mac.com), you've got no excuse not to. Here's how to back up smartly - just be aware that Backup doesn't make bootable backups.

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