February 2009
4 posts
Feb 26th
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WatchWatch
“Everything is so amazing and nobody is happy” - Louis CK with Conan O’Brien (via Technium, 23 February 2009)
Feb 25th
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Data Recovery Services
Another colleague reports that her hard drive died this week; and she has not been backing up regularly. Recovering data from a dead or dying hard drive is not easy, and therefore expensive. Not long ago, another client paid a data recovery company about $3000 to retrieve the contents of her hard drive. She arranged this service through her local computer store, based on their advise. The company...
Feb 12th
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replacing your Mac's hard drive
Today, a friend’s MacBook wouldn’t bootup, but made a ”funny sickly spinning clicking sound under keyboard”.  That sounds like a dying hard drive.  My advice? On a MacBook or iMac, replacing the internal hard drive is dead simple.  If you can clip your own fingernails and pluck an eyebrow, you have the manual dexterity to accomplish this. Go to the MyOWC page at Other...
Feb 9th