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Why a Mac

The other night, one of my daughter’s friends asked me why I have an Apple sticker on my car. I gave my usual response, which is “because I use Apple computers and they’re cool,” but for some reason I felt the need to temper that response because of the way Mac people are perceived these …

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Click To Remove

After a few days of messing with Boot Camp on my Mac Mini, I decided it was time to remove it. No, I’m not giving in to the peer pressure of friends, coworkers, and loved ones (well, one specific fangirl loved one)… I decided the experiment was over. A big contributing factor was the Mini’s …

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Parallel Our Sights

I downloaded Parallels Workstation 2.1 Beta 2 and loaded it on my Intel Mac Mini. This is a brand-new product that lets you run Windows (and several other operating systems) in a window on your OSX desktop. (Click the photo to see a larger version of the screen shot.) Having used Microsoft’s Virtual PC before, …

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Super Backups

I’ve been looking for a decent backup program for the Mac for a while. Every recommendation I’ve received has been either expensive and overblown with unnecessary features (e.g., .Mac) or mind-numbingly complicated (e.g., some French program I downloaded). For the near term, I’ve been copying my user files to my iPod and then transferring that …

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