Tag: Hard Drive

Seagate 1TB Wireless Plus – Review

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People love their iPads, iPhones, iPod touches, and will most likely love whatever new iThings Apple comes out with in the future. They’re fast, efficient, portable, capable of nearly anything you might want a desktop or laptop computer for, but there’s a basic need in which they are sorely lacking. No, it isn’t multiple user support, or better multi-tasking, or its lack of a usable file system (though it sure would be nice if they included some of those). Its storage. Seagate has something that will give you that storage and a lot of it!

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Western Digital My Cloud – Review

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Cloud computing is all the rage nowadays. We use iCloud for our music and photos, Dropbox and Google Drive for file sharing and storage, plus a host of other cloud-based services, on a daily basis. The problem is, some of these services can get expensive or lack the security features we need. One solution to this problem is to use a local cloud service, like the Western Digital My Cloud.

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Voyager S3 – A Review

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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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The Guardian MAXimus mini – Review

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Are you backing up? Do you have enough storage for your laptop, or your Macintosh computer? How about portable storage? Can you move your storage around if you need to?

I have a solution for all of these and it it is called the NewerTech Guardian MAXimus mini (Abbriviated here as GMM) from NewerTechnology.

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Verbatim Storage – Review

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Everyone should be using an external hard drive to back up their data. Knowing that is the easy part. The hard part is deciding which type and brand of hard drive to buy. I’m currently using two options from Verbatim. Want to know what I think? Read on.

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Win a FREE Hard Drive on Twitter! – Update!

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With all the software, photos, music, and videos we seem to need every day on our Macintosh computers, we all need more hard drive space! Here is your chance to win a 320GB miniG Firewire Hard Drive! Update 9-22-09 First Winner – Phil Paxman! Updated 9-29-09 Second Winner Ben Avery! Updated 10-6-09 Third week Winner Cindy Hickman! And our LAST winner, updated on 10-13-09, is John Darrow!

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USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter
Review

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Do you have older hard drives you only need quick access to, but don’t want to crack open your case, or an external HD case, simply to get or write some data to it? Check out Knotty’s review for a product that may be just what you are looking for.

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Ten Common Tech Terms

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At MyMac.com, and other computer sites, terms like freeware, burn, jpeg, and more are being used all of the time. Sometimes we (the writers) take for granted that the audience understands what we are talking about. I figured I’d make a list of ten of the more common terms we might use in articles. You might look at a lot of the words below and think they are common sense. What might be common sense to you might be totally foreign to another person.

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