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When your hard drive crashes, its pretty scary. Whether its the spinning beach ball followed by “The file could not be read or written”, the silent blue screen on startup or my favorite: the flashing folder with the question mark, its all the same cause - hard drive issues. You do have [...]

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As you know, Apple Care doesn’t cover all repairs. If your Mac is older than three years, was damaged, dropped, cracked, broken or had liquids spilled on it, Apple Care won’t fix it. New machines aside, let’s look at the following situation: Your three year old iBook is broken and you [...]

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Re-Installing OS X, although easy to do, can be a big pain. Setting up OS X and then re-installing all your applications and running Software Update can take hours if not days. What about any custom settings, printers, and user folders? While this isn’t something you will have to do [...]

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Whenever something is going haywire on your Mac, an often recommended step is to reset the PRAM. In the old days, it used to be a cure-all. Although Apple themselves call this a drastic measure, most Apple techs try resetting the PRAM as a quick fix. But what exactly does [...]