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I recently helped my brother get “his computer” up and running on someone else’s. Let me explain, his Hard Drive died (an unfortunate habit of 12′ Apple portables) but he did have a backup and even had a few moments to copy his most recent files as the machine died. Since he had access to… Continue Reading Mounting your old drive on a diffrent Mac

In Mac OS 10.3 all the messages for each inbox was stored in one file with a .MBOX ending. These files could be backed up and swapped when Mail.app (The geeky name for Apple’s Mail program) wasn’t running. This made creating backups and restoring them very easy. The most compelling reason to use Mail.app is… Continue Reading How to recover from Mac OS 10.4 E-Mail problems.

Apple is getting everyone excited abou their Oct 12 event (Apple stirs product speculation over Oct 12 event, Washington Post). Given that I was right about the G5 PowerBook never coming I’m going to speculate on this one too, we’ll see how I do. The ‘One more thing’ will be a second core on the… Continue Reading Apple Oct 12 Event: One more thing

Recently Steve Jobs, head of Apple Computers, responded to a question about pirates running pirated versions of the latest Mac OS on PCs by saying “Pirates will burn in hell“. One interesting thing to note is Microsoft, the creator of Windows which runs (as far as statistical significance) every PC on the planet uses an… Continue Reading iBook == Pirate

My fist dependent, my fist little one to care for, my poor little PowerBook. The problem started three weeks ago I was helping my parents try to fix their Linksys wireless routers problems (it was dying more than an unlucky Buddhist). I lost my connection to the new network I had setup and none of… Continue Reading PowerBook PowerBroke