The MacBook Air has always been a sweet little machine, but with the noteworthy constraint that there is no means of fast input/output -- USB 2.0 is as fast as it gets on most of them, and that's not even as fast (in actual real usage) as FireWire 400, much less FireWire 800, much less Gigabit ...
Still on Leopard (10.5)? Prepare to pay to upgrade
If you're still running Leopard, aka Mac OS X 10.5, you now have no Apple-provided way of getting either Lion or Mountain Lion on your machine. You will have to buy a Snow Leopard DVD -- formerly $29, but now upwards of $70 on Amazon and eBay to update your system, and then you will have access to ...
A full computer that’s a fraction of the size and cost of the Mac Mini?
If you like the idea of a computer that's both smaller and less expensive than, say, dinner for two, then dine on Raspberry Pi. It is a full featured computer for $25 that fits in the palm of your hand. It's a small circuit board into which you can plug a monitor, USB devices (e.g. keyboard and ...
iCloud does not back up your Mac
There's been a fair bit of confusion about what iCloud is and isn't, but let's be clear about one thing: iCloud DOES partially back up your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, but it does NOT back up your Mac. This is a major change for longstanding MobileMe subscribers who used Apple's iDisk with the ...
eFax and Lion
As we all know by now, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion doesn't let you run PowerPC applications; manufacturers have to update their software for the Intel CPU's in all current Macs. Many important titles have been made current, but there are several "abandonware" titles which may never be. One of these is eFax ...
Need to get contacts off an old mobile phone? iSync to the rescue!
We recently visited a client who had a typical mobile phone -- you know, the kind intended for making phone calls and not much else. She had a bunch of contacts in her phone's address book that she needed to keep. Fortunately, Snow Leopard (and Tiger and Leopard before it) had a feature called ...