Rise up to a Twelve South charging stand – Review

The HiRise Duet is a dual charger, charging both your iPhone and Apple Watch so you get double the charging in half the space. One of the best features of this base is its adjustability. You loosen the rear support screw and then slide the support until it fits snugly against your iPhone case. I don’t think this will work with a beefy case, like a thick Otterbox case (I dont have one, so I am speculating) but it did easily hold a thick neoprene case I own.

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Beef up your 2013-2015 MacBook Air/Pro Storage with Aura – Review

I have owned a Mid 2013 13″ MacBook Air (MBA) since 2014. I bought the MacBook Air for several reasons. I needed something light to carry since I also lug around a MacBook Pro issued to me from the company where I work. While I have a Mac Pro at home (Cheese grater version) I needed something portable so I could update my website while mobile, and quite frankly, something that would get me out of the home office. I do love working from my back porch during the summer.

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Keyfolio Thin X3 – Review

When iPads were first introduced by Apple I bought an original iPad and then later moved to an iPad 2. At the time, the thought of using an external keyboard to enter information into an iPad, was a novel idea. Back then, I got my hands on a pre-release keyboard case from a company called Kensington. It was a wonderful concept at the time and since that first case the good folks at Kensington have continued to refine their Folio line of keyboard cases for iPads.

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Kensington SafeGrip Case for iPad Air 2 – Review

When iPads first came out the thought of our kids grabbing our iPads and dropping them, such an expensive piece of electronics, left us in fear. However, as the iPad has evolved, their use in schools and at home has become generally accepted. Still, we are talking about an expensive piece of hardware, and no matter how well intentioned, or careful our kids try to be, accidents do happen.

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iPad Armor Protection

Urban Armor Gear (UAG) manufactures cases for mobile phones and tablets. These cases are designed to meet or exceed military drop test standards. On their site, UAG touts its rugged case designs, “UAG products are designed by adventure seekers for adventure seekers.”

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Tales from Video Hell

The equation: Add a long marriage, plus three kids, then divide by a video camera and you come up with a whole mess of video on tape. Then the question becomes what do you do with all of that tape?

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The Hub – Review

Are you a MacBook Air owner like me? Then Im sure youve come across a deficit of ports when you need them. You plug in a USB drive, then you use the Apple E-Net (Ethernet) connector to connect to the web (because it is faster than wireless), and then you want to copy to a second external drive. What do you do? Well, the only thing you can do is copy from one drive to your Air and then plug and unplug the externals until you’ve made the copies you wanted. Only having two USB ports, and no built in E-Net port, on the Air can certainly limit some activities.

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Amp up your Wireless Network – Review

If you live in a large home, or have problems connecting wirelessly to your Airport Extreme base station (or any other base station) because of dead spots, walls, or other obstructions, you may want to consider a Repeater that will extend the range of your Wi-Fi signal.

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Blazing a New Trail with the Blazer

Here at MyMac.com you can be sure you’ll get solid information and insight on the usefulness and quality of all sorts of items for your Apple gear. When it comes to carrying your 13 MacBook Pro/MacBook Air there are only 4,000,000 or 5,000,000 bags out there to choose from. Instead of spending hours of time searching through a dizzying array of websites looking for that perfect bag, read about the hours we spent searching for that perfect bag so you dont have to.

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That’s Rich

Today I am annoyed.

Are you getting tired of apps reminding you to update them?

How about reminders? What about email notifications?

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Macally Products for Mac Users – Review

This company started in the early nineties as a manufacturer of Mac specific products (hence the name, an ally for your Mac), and since then, they have developed an innovative, high quality, cross-platform and competitively priced line of Macally brand products.

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Voyager S3 – A Review

Do you have external hard drives laying about the office? Wish you could use them with buying expensive enclosures for each one? You might like the flexibility the NewerTech Voyager S3 can give you.

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Take a Stand – Review

Not enough space left on your desktop to hold all of those cool Apple products your significant other told you that you could not afford? Here are some solutions that might help you gain some of that space back and may also make room for new Apple stuff you can’t afford.

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“Stuff” for your MacPro

If you own a MacPro, like me, then you know that this is Apple’s most expandable Macintosh computer though there have been rumors as of late as to whether or not Apple will continue to manufacture them. I think not building some kind of expandable Macintosh computer would be a mistake. Apple needs one model of computer that can be customized by the user.

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To USB 3, or Not to USB 3. That is the question.
Part 2

So far this is the fastest USB 3 drive I have tested, and I am starting to believe that USB 3 is significantly faster than USB 2, but if you look at the chart at the beginning of this article you can see that USB 3 is supposed to be much faster than FW 800 and my testing did not show that.

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