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09/11/2017

Free data recovery from Drive Savers for hurricane victims

Free data recovery services of wet phones and hard drives now available to Florida residents (NOVATO, Calif. September 7, 2017) DriveSavers, the worldwide leader in data recovery, eDiscovery and di…

08/13/2014

http://www.wnyc.org/story/a-good-it-person-needs-to-be-half-technologist-half-psychologist/

Your doctor and lawyer may know a lot about you. But in a time when we are using computers to socialize, keep track of finances, do work and store family photos your IT person probably knows more.

05/10/2014

http://lifehacker.com/the-most-important-security-settings-to-change-on-your-1573958554/+kcampbelldollaghan?utm_content=bufferc195f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Your router is the first line of defense against hackers trying to access all the internet-connected devices in your home. Sadly, many of the top Wi-Fi routers are easy to hack. You should be concerned--and also make sure your router is set up properly.

04/11/2014

http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected/

Heartbleed: A look at which companies have issued a security patch to fix the Heartbleed bug.

10/30/2013

If you're tempted to upgrade to Mavericks, just don't do it now. Wait a few months. You'll spare yourself some headaches. https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/os_x_mavericks?view=overview #/?tagSet=1583

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10/24/2013

http://downdetector.com/

Realtime overview of issues and outages with all kinds of services. Having issues? We help you find out what is wrong.

10/10/2013

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/apple-in-the-enterprise/lesser-known-features-in-ios-7/?tag=nl.e008&s_cid=e008&ttag=e008&ftag=TREb82e1fa

The newest release of the iPhone platform has been completely redesigned for the end user -- not only the look of the interface, but many of the features have been updated or added.

09/16/2013

Inside a 2006 Mac Pro. Surprisingly, the only thing wrong was a dead DVD drive.

09/15/2013

Brilliant app to w**d out duplicate files (and free up hard drive space) on your mac and attached hard drives. http://macpaw.com/gemini

Find and remove duplicate files on your Mac with Gemini, a handy Mac duplicate file finder that turns the process of cleaning duplicates into a real fun! Gemini Mac App: duplicate files finder and cleaner

12/03/2012

http://www.macworld.com/article/2016043/mac-101-smart-searching.html .nl_mwbest

You now know how to search your Mac with Spotlight. This week Chris Breen shows you how to create smart searches.

12/01/2012

http://www.applebitch.com/2012/12/01/opinion-the-imac-and-the-problems-with-good-design/

While the iMac certainly looks beautiful, both inside and out, the repairability score has dropped from 7 out of 10 for the previous model of iMac, down to a rather poor 3 out of 10, meaning that it’s almost nigh on impossible for your average user to repair any of the components. ‘Aha!’ I hear you ...

10/22/2012

http://lifehacker.com/5887140/everyones-trying-to-track-what-you-do-on-the-web-heres-how-to-stop-them

It's no secret that there's big money to be made in violating your privacy. Companies will pay big bucks to learn more about you, and service providers on the web are eager to get their hands on as much information about you as possible.