Finishing (in) the Studio: Printers, Backup, and Graphics Tablets
This week The Low End Designer looks at printers, mass storage, and graphics tablets, all considered essential items to finish off the studio – but are they? Publisher’s note: This article was...
View ArticleMac Maintenance: Effective Backup Strategies
Everyone knows they need to backup their data, but most people don’t do so regularly (if at all). Backups are confusing and annoying. Besides, who has the time? Well, your perspective may change during...
View ArticleTime Machine Can Now Backup to a Shared Hard Drive
Apple released the Time Machine backup utility as part of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard in October 2007. Time Machine is most commonly used to back up to an external USB or FireWire hard drive directly...
View ArticleHard Drive Failure
1999 – It happens to the best of us, and it will probably happen to you eventually. Yep, it’s the one thing we all say won’t happen, but always does – a hard drive failure. I’ll show you how to...
View ArticleFixing and Preventing Hard Drive Crashes
1999 – Lately, many people have been telling me that their iMacs have been giving them many problems. They’ve been reporting crashes, freezes, and other various maladies. I’ve been able to relate to...
View ArticleWorking Around and Replacing a Failing Hard Drive
Hard drives die. Sometimes early, within warranty. Sometimes after years and years of use. Sometimes with a little warning. Sometimes with no warning at all. And all you can do is be prepared. At Low...
View ArticleTime Machine: Not Quite What I Expected
Since returning from vacation earlier this month, my 2007 Mac mini began to have problems and then died. More precisely, it would no longer boot from the OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard partition on its...
View ArticleAn Unexpected Benefit of Using an SSD and More SSD Tips
I recently put a 250 GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD in my Mid 2007 Mac mini, replacing a failing hard drive. While working on this setup, I found yet one more advantage of using an SSD. If you use Time...
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