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Time Machine Actually Works

As I mentioned in my inaugural post, I’m an IT guy. And as an IT guy, if someone has broken a piece of tech in the weirdest way imaginable, I’ve seen it. Suffice to say, nothing prepared me for the near mutant-style destruction that my wife caused her old iBook G4. Sadly, my wife has [...]

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Macworld 2008 Keynote wrapup

Yesterday was the keynote for MacWorld San Francisco 2008. Steve Jobs announced several things .. Here’s the run down (some of my own comments included along the way): Leopard has sold over 5 million copies so far, that’s 20% of them have upgraded their computers to Leopard. It’s the most successful launch of an [...]

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Growl-Time Machine Notification with an Apple Script

The gents over at Stop Being Carbon raised a really good point about Time Machine: Why the heck doesn’t it notify you when it’s done backing up your files?  To make things even better, they decided to take it into their own hands and write up a nice little apple script that will give a [...]

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