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  • Drobo Unboxing – Health Benefits of Vaping that You Need to Know

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    Ever since the vape has hit the market, there has been a lot of debate around it. You might hear your friends and family giving their various opinions about it. Unfortunately, most of these opinions are just rumors and don’t have any evidence supported by proper research. It is your choice what you want to…

  • Upgrading Hard Drives – It’s Really This Easy

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    Let’s get the 320 GB hard drive upgrade, it should be enough space for awhile… …or not. When we ordered the MacBook Pro in February ’09 our entry option for the hard drive was 250 GB, so upgrading to 320 GB wasn’t a huge upgrade, but it was roughly a 40% improvement in head room.…

  • Storage is Cheap

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    I’ve been wrestling with our home backup strategy for over a year now. A little background: We made the switch from PC to Mac in February 2008. Since then I have shed away my previous strategy of using SyncToy with an external USB hard drive, combined with a slew of 16GB thumb drives held at…

  • PC to Mac Switching Pains (Part 2)

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    So now that my iTunes and iPhoto setup is done (sort of), I moved my attention to trying to create the first of hopefully many family movies that will inevitably embarrass the kids (hopefully they’ll still pick a suitable retirement home for their mom & dad!). The importing of existing videos from the external hard…