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Software

TechTool Pro 5.0.4 Released

Over the weekend, Micromat released version 5.0.4 of TechTool Pro, its best-selling utility software for the Mac. The new version offers features and changes such as the eDrive, which allows users to create an emergency startup partition that includes TechTool Pro on one of your hard drives without the need to reinitialize your hard drive. […]

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How-To

How-To: Work Around Delays, Hangs in Time Machine

Let’s face it, Time Machine is a spiffy and useful thing as well as one of the main bells and whistles of Mac OS X 10.5. This isn’t to say it’s without its bugs and despite Apple’s best efforts, there are times where backups appear to hang or stall out sans warning. You may be […]

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How-To

Sleep Tips for MacBook, MacBook Pro Notebooks Published

Albeit generally reliable, putting your MacBook or MacBook Pro notebook to sleep can be a bit of a gamble. When you open the notebook back up, you want to make sure the computer will wake up again or your day just got that much worse. Over on the Apple Core, David Morgenstern has offered the […]

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News

Apple Updates Mac Pro, Mac Mini and iMac Computers

Today, Apple updated everything short of your Labradoodle and since I just got back from an hour in the dentist’s chair and rocking out to an hour of their easy listening selection, let’s have at it… Mac Mini: Apple released a revised Mac mini today, the new systems featuring improved graphics, faster memory and additional […]

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Rumor

Rumor: Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update May Feature Nehalem, Radeon HD 4000 Support

Apple’s upcoming Mac OS X 10.5.7 update may go beyond its usual complement of expected fixes and incorporate support for Intel’s new Nehalem hardware architecture as well as the ATI Radeon HD 4000 graphics chipsets. According to netkas, a recent discovery located just five kernel extensions for the video cards and doesn’t appear to work […]