Seagate 1TB Wireless Plus – Review

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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Seagate Central – Review

Are you worried about your documents, precious photos, music library, and data stored in The Cloud? Ever thought about how secure your personal information is when it is all sitting in a data center somewhere? Instead of trusting your stuff to someone else’s cloud, how about putting it in your own cloud?

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MyMac Podcast #494 – Doing it on the run

Because absolutely no one asked, Guy goes over in detail how he’s going to podcast using just iOS at the Macworld Expo. You’d think he’d have the process pretty much worked out by now. Meanwhile Gaz is excitedly testing rechargeable batteries in Apple devices that dont have Apples logo, that rebel! While it all sounds rather mundane, this was a pretty funny show.

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Backup Plus Desktop Drive for Macintosh – Review

Seagate’s semi-modular external drives are versatile gems of design and engineering. With only a few companies now manufacturing good-quality consumer backup drives, the latest lineup of Backup Plus Desktop Drive for Macintosh models offers reliability, excellent value for money, and a secret hidden feature in the removable bottom power and interface port base unit.

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2012 Holiday Gift Guide for Techies – Nemo Memo

If you are reading this and you are not fully backed up using Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper, stop immediately and order a new external multi-interface bus-powered backup drive or two. Keep one drive handy for daily updates, and the other offsite for safety and security. Email the G-Men on the MyMac Podcast if you need advice on how to use Time Machine and the other two backup applications.

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Seagate Backup Plus – Review

Seagate has long been a fixture in the world of internal and external hard drives. Recently, Seagate released a new type of drive one that helps you share and save your digital media on social networks.

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Holiday 2009 Gift Round-up


It’s that time of year, with Black Friday and Cyber Monday behind us, and Christmas fast approaching, that the mind turns to gifts. I have assembled a few ideas for you – products I have either been reviewing for MyMac Magazine or that I have bought for myself over the last twelve months.

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Seagate Shared Storage II network drive 1TB
Review


With all the characteristics that should have made the Seagate Shared Storage II network drive a hit, it scores low in our real-world tests. If you had been thinking of using this devise on a Macintosh network, you will want to read this review before spending your money.

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Maxtor OneTouch III Mini 160GB
Review


USB-2 is not as fast as FireWire 400, and don’t let anybody convince you otherwise. When you need fastest possible movement of data, FW800 is the way to go. Under typical home or office circumstances, USB-2 is adequate.

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