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Magic Trackpad

Magic Trackpad Well, if you use a larger Apple monitor you’ve probably discovered one of the problems with this plan. Trying to move the mouse form one side of the monitor to the other is a complete pain. If you add a second monitor, the irritation is even more so. The Mac mouse is great, [...]

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Apple Disaster – and the Recovery

Apple Disaster Sometimes good things can come from bad events Well, the unthinkable has happened. My 6-week old Apple system has suffered a catastrophic failure, but the situation is a combination of bad news and good news. First, the bad news, the failure was sudden and without warning or error message. It simply stopped working [...]

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How the Apple Turns

How the Apple Turns My mac adventure continues, with lots of good news. As you might have read in a previous post, I’ve recently migrated from widows to Mac. The process if almost complete and my old windows machine has been powered down and retired. It’s been an interesting experience, I have been sharing here [...]

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Apple Migration – The Saga Continues

2010-07-18 Apple Migration – The Saga Continues I was going to call this the final chapter, but the migration work still seems to have a few loose ends. Well, the day started poorly. As I left things last night, my contacts were corrupting themselves to nonsense and my Drobo would drop offline during data transfer. [...]

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Migration can be a Pain

2010-07-17 Apple Migration Today is the data migration day. I plan to move my critical data over to the new system and begin to use it as my primary computing platform. Until my esata situations is resolved, I am going to use firewire for my external drives. It’s slower, but one of the reason why [...]

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2010-07-16 The Big Migration

2010-07-16 The big migration Well, the laptop is ready, but it’s easy, as I don’t keep critical data there. Now, I am starting on the Mac pro, the big boy, and a move from critical system to critical system. The System No assembly required, as everything was pre-installed and well packed. The unit is very [...]

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Apple Arrival

Apple Arrival So, my long awaited apple gear arrived yesterday. On schedule and within the timeframe. Not only that, none of the suprise delivery charges often seen with products being shipped directly into Canada. Delivery required a signature and nothing else. Everything was very well packed with a simple manifest to document the contents. I’ve [...]

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