Wednesday, 16 April 2008

should cover just about everyone’s requirements.

Apple’s latest operating system can automatically back up all your files every hour. 

Another way to go is a ‘Time Capsule’.  This is an awesome wireless router that has a hard drive built in.  Anyone on your network, both wired and wireless can back up, again hourly.

Using Apple’s ‘Time Machine’ software, you can even restore a file that you may have deleted a week ago.

Having a Time Capsule away from your prized possessions can ensure if anything happens to your Mac, you’re completely covered.

How important is a decent back up plan?

Who decides what to call things? And what’s the weather like on their planet?

Where do they live and how can we hurt them?

Tuesday, 28 October 2008

Three and a half years ago, I nearly lost everything - Car, Computer, iPod , dignity and good will toward my fellow man. 

Now my car was insured, so when I ran up the back of another car on Burke Rd in Camberwell it wasn’t such a painful incident.  The experience even got me a morning off work.

Later that same year our house was broken into and the first thing that was grabbed was my iMac.  They are shiny aren’t they.  A very attractive unit.  Part of the reason we all love Macs so much.  Apparently the crooks that got into our house thought so as well. 

Isn’t it funny the way we insure things like cars, bikes, TV’s, computers, but don’t think about important irreplaceable things like Photo’s on our Mac.

In addition to theft, I can’t tell you how many times we’ve seen grown men cry when they hear from a tech that their files are gone.

Finally, the back up question has been answered for us.  And not just for one computer, it can be for the whole household.

An easy way to back up one computer is an external Hard Drive.  A typical size these days is 500Gb and this