Instructables has directions to make your two loves come together. While it doesn't look like a long list of items, if you aren't very tech-savvy with a soldiering iron you can buy a pre-made setup on the designers Etsy page. But it just looks so cool! ...

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Another Friday - yay! Today is the final installment of The Consultants Backup Strategy. Part 1 discussed home machines, Part 2 discussed office machines. In part 3 - we will go into discussing how to backup the office server. How to backup a server really depends on how much data you have on your server. For arguments sake, let's use fast food drink size to differentiate.

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Happy Friday everyone. On Tuesday I brought you part 1 of The Consultants Backup Strategy. We discussed Personal backup solutions. Today we are going to talk about office computer backups. Let's start with some facts. According to Carbonite - "97% of laptops that are stolen are never returned." Mozy states "Every week 140,000 hard drives crash in the United States." Those are some horrible odds that your laptop will be stolen, or your hard drive will crash. Backing up should be second nature by now - especially in an office setting. No matter...

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As an Apple Consultant, one of the most important parts of my job is to make sure data is safe and secure. After years of my own data loss, files deleted, and computer crashes I now take my own advice. When I setup clients computers, and servers I always discuss backup with them. There are so many different strategies and customizations involving backup, depending on the scale that's needed. This multi-part blog post will discuss personal backups, office computer backups, server backups and hopefully everything in between. Day 1. Personal backups. Read More

Wisair's announcement is a real breakthrough for MacBook users.  Using a single USB connector, the device wireless transmit data to a docking station.  The really nice part is that the dock can have an external monitor as well.  So now you have USB data, keyboard/mouse, audio and video over wireless USB. The uses for this could be limitless.  Say you have your big screen TV and you really want to show your friends something cool from your 13" MacBook.  Have Wisairs new device connected to your LCD and when you get home you can easily turn your big screen into your...

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