You can never have TOO much money, TOO much time, or TOO much space: Especially when it comes to data. A while back I moved my Time Machine data from a smaller partitioned drive to a larger one thinking “its twice the size of the hard-drive being backed up. should be fine.” It [...]
Archive for November, 2010
Data is like Koi or goldfish, it grows to fill its environment
Posted: 29th November 2010 by tcg in computers, hardware, Mac OSX, software, technologyTags: Apple, backup, hardware, MacBook Pro, Time Machine
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Find your Phone and your Piece of mind.
Posted: 25th November 2010 by tcg in Apple, apps, iPad, iphone, iPodTags: Apple, apps, Find My iPhone, free apps, iPad, iphone, iPod, lost iphone
Something that always concerned me about storing so much info on my smartphone and relying on it so heavily was what would happen if I lost it? Well, thanks to the latest update to the iPhone iOS (4.2.1 at time of writing) Apple has made it a little easier to find, remotely lock, or wipe [...]
Backup your backups
Posted: 20th November 2010 by tcg in backup, computers, hardwareTags: backup, data recovery, external drives, hardware, maintenance, NAS failure
There is an old saying “there are those that have already suffered hard-drive failures and those that are about to“. This was ringing all too true for us on both counts recently. I’m always pretty good at ensuring all the important info we have personally and as a company is backed up, or at least [...]
Free Video converter for Windows and Mac
Posted: 10th November 2010 by tcg in iphone, Mac OSX, software, WindowsTags: free, HandBrake, Mac OSX, MacXDVD, software, video converting software, Windows
I don’t want to seem like a sell-out or promote programs I don’t know much about, but I was made aware of some video converting software for both Windows and Mac that is available free for a limited time and wanted to spread the word, even though I haven’t had a lot of time to [...]
Being Green, how important is it to you and where do you draw the line?
Posted: 9th November 2010 by tcg in UncategorizedTags: digital magazines, environmentally friendly, green, MacLife, recycling
As a family, we’ve always tried to be environmentally friendly, in fact I spend more time separately and collapsing recyclables than anything else some mornings, but I don’t begrudge it. Its for our future and our kids futures, etc, etc. The same goes for work, when we moved our office and the new location [...]