Did you know that you can get FREE backup protection from ever losing your photos? If your phone gets lost, stolen, falls in the toilet, gets run over by a truck, etc….. you can just get the GOOGLE PHOTOS app, which is free and comes with unlimited free storage for ALL your photos, on all …
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How to use Google Photos to back up your iPhone photos for FREE !
August 16th, 2019 | Posted by in Backup | How-To | IOS | Mac | Maintenance | Tips - (Comments Off on How to use Google Photos to back up your iPhone photos for FREE !)How to format an external hard drive for use with a Mac
January 5th, 2017 | Posted by in Backup | Fix | How-To | Mac | Maintenance | Tips - (Comments Off on How to format an external hard drive for use with a Mac)How to format an external hard drive for use with a Mac Most external hard drives you buy will come out of the box pre-formatted for a Windows computer (NTFS). If you have a Mac you should format the drive for your Mac first thing, before you start using it. This is not hard to do, …
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How to clean up your iPhone when it has run out of space
August 4th, 2015 | Posted by in Backup | How-To | Mac | Maintenance | Tips - (Comments Off on How to clean up your iPhone when it has run out of space) A lot of people find out that their iPhone or iPad has run of of space and they have no idea why this is, or what to do about it. Simply put, your iPhone or iPad is not something with infinite space. When you got it, it came with a certain amount of storage space …
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What is “Cloud Computing”?
July 31st, 2011 | Posted by in Backup | Mac | News | software | Software Updates | Tips | Uncategorized - (Comments Off on What is “Cloud Computing”?)You may heard the term ‘Cloud Computing’ in the news lately. What does it mean? This image is a good illustration. The term ‘Cloud Computing’ refers to an imaginary “cloud in the sky” – actually servers on the internet – a theoretical “place” where you upload your files to, then access them wherever you are. This …
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Hard Drive Problems
July 11th, 2011 | Posted by in Backup | Fix | How-To | Mac | Maintenance | Tips - (Comments Off on Hard Drive Problems)One of the worst things that can happen to a computer owner is to experience problems with your hard drive. If you experience even a minor problem you should not ignore it, but investgate it asap. Some problems can be fixed fairly easily early on (even with Apple’s Disk Utility for example) but like a tooth ache …
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Time Capsule ‘Hang’ Restore Problem & Backup Issues
July 1st, 2009 | Posted by in Backup | Mac | Maintenance | News - (1 Comments)I recently had a kind of bad experience with having to do a Restore from a Time Capsule. It was very frustrating, so I thought I’d post about this problem. Following Apple’s instructions exactly, I booted up from a Leopard Installer Disk, chose the “Restore from Time Machine backup” Utility…etc, and so far so good. It …
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What is Time Machine?
June 23rd, 2009 | Posted by in Backup | Mac - (Comments Off on What is Time Machine?)If you have Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.x) on your Mac guess what, you have Time Machine (its built in!) So whats Time Machine anyway? Well its the name of Apple’s automatic Backup software that just works! For most of my clients, its what I recommend. I found this very good, detailed step-by-step description on …
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