Retrospect 9.0
In the world of Mac software, few brands reach as far back as Retrospect. Originally conceived in the 1980s by Dantz Development, Retrospect reigned as the premiere Macintosh backup product for more than a decade. But then Dantz was acquired by enterprise software giant EMC, and the product became something of a football, passed from [...]
Boot Camp cloning utility Winclone returns to OS X
After a long hiatus, Two Canoes’ popular Winclone utility for backing up Boot Camp partitions has returned.Apple‘s move to Intel processors for itsMac systems in 2006 opened up many opportunities for Mac users, one of which was the ability to install and boot Windows directly on the Mac hardware without any emulation. To facilitate this [...]
Start 2012 with a decluttered computer
New Year’s resolutions have been made, and 2012 is already off to a great start. Regardless of whether or not people have kept their promise to run five miles a day or cut back on sugary drinks, January is a good time to start fresh and do a bit of decluttering, both at home and [...]
PC Dies Before It Can Begin to Boot
When Kennyrosenyc turns on his PC, it dies before it even begins to boot. he asked the Windows forum for help.You can’t blame this one on Windows. if the PC shuts down before it tries to boot off the hard drive (or off of a CD or flash drive), then you definitely have a hardware [...]
Armando Grundy bounces check, takes weeks to get it cleared up
On Oct. 26, Grundy, 32, who is running for the District 1 seat in the Jan. 31 election against Yvonne Hinson-Rawls and Ray Washington, wrote a $232.76 check from his campaign account to PC Techman to get a new hard drive for his laptop, which he said is being used for the campaign. Michelle Venega, [...]
Seagate Barracuda One brings 1TB per platter, lots of under-the-hood improvements
Seagate’s Barracuda one uses 1TB platters, has a dual-core CPU, 64MB of DDR2 SDRAM and lots of other nifty technology. Seagate today announced its new desktop hard drive range: Barracuda one. the Barracuda one range features drives with an aerial density of up to 1TB per platter and all drives in the range have a [...]
Virtual memory encryption necessity in OS X
Part of virtual memory on a computer is where the contents of RAM are written to the hard drive (as a special file called a “swapfile”) to free it up for other uses. As you use your computer, the system will load programs and data into RAM, which is like having your work on the [...]
How To: Install OS X on your ordinary PC
Today, it’s possible to take a small chunk of that Apple experience and use it on your own, outside the confines of the expensive ecosystem built specifically for it. the enjoyment won’t be the same, but the whole point is to expand users’ options and give them the choice. We’re referring, of course, to running [...]
Zotac Zbox Nano AD10 Plus HTPC
Mini PCs are a relatively new phenomenon and went commercial in 2005 with the Apple Mac mini. since then, a handful of manufacturers have launched their own variants of mini PCs that are cost friendly and yet keeping the consumers' wants in mind. Zotac, a brand that is well known for PC components have released [...]
Lenovo ThinkCentre M91p
If you love the old-school look of Lenovo ThinkPads, but you want desktop performance and pricing, check out Lenovo’s ThinkCentre M91p series. This machine packs second-generation Intel processors into a slim, retro-style case. Our review model, priced at $1180 as of July 25, 2011, features an Intel Core i5-2500S processor running at 2.7GHz, 4GB of [...]
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