I’ve been frustrated recently because external hard drives connected to my MacBook have refused to unmount. After resorting to restarting before trying again, I posted my problem to a number of online forums. Knowledgeable member of the Macworld forums oddlot answered my question with a Unix command called hdiutil that can force eject a drive. [...]

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If you had told me 5 years ago that I’d ever start a blog — much less one about Macs — I’d probably look at you funny. I never really thought that I would have knowledge about something that other people would find interesting, or valuable. But here we are. It’s now almost been 6 [...]

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This is part 1 of upgrading your MacBook. Part 2 is moving the data to the new drive. When you purchase a MacBook, the options for hard drive space are 80GB, 120GB, or now, 250GB. I went with the stock 80, but now, more than a year later, I want more. What to do? Why, [...]

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If you’ve been reading my website for a while, you’ll see that the footer at the bottom of each page keeps growing in size. When I first started the site, it contained the basic information like Powered by WordPress, but I have since added more. For those who may be interested, here is how the [...]

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If you’re like me, you wait for a while whenever new technology arrives. We didn’t get a DVD player until they had been on the scene for a few months, and we didn’t have high speed internet until the price dropped way down. In fact, there’s probably a Betamax player somewhere in the basement. I [...]

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