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  • July 25, 2012

    How To Create a Bootable Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) Installation DVD or USB Drive [Updated]

    As many people know, Apple's new Operating System, OS 10.8 - a.k.a. "Mountain Lion," is officially available for purchase and download. Just head over to the Apple App Store on your supported Mac and purchase and install Mountain Lion now! As part of the upgrade process, your Emergency Recovery Boot Partition will be upgraded to support re-installs of Mountain Lion…

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  • September 12, 2011

    Moshi’s USB to Ethernet Adapter Makes the MacBook Air Even More Perfect

    As I write this post on my Apple MacBook Air, I really struggle to think of things that would make it better. It's pretty much a near-perfect laptop in my opinion. It's lightweight, fast and has a good battery-life. It's a bit pricey but it seems to be holding its own pretty well within this new "Ultrabook" space. Honestly, I…

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  • July 22, 2011

    VIDEO – How to Re-Download Mac OS X Lion & Create Bootable Install DVD & USB Thumb Drive

    Yesterday I wrote a post "How To Re-Download Mac OS X Lion & Create a Bootable Install DVD" and it seems to be helping a lot of people out there. So, sometimes it is even more helpful to create a video that explains the process, so I quickly put one together. Also, a few users were wondering how to create…

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  • December 13, 2009

    Mini Review: Keep Your Gadgets Charged in your Car with iLuv USB Car Chargers

    Since everyone nowadays seems to have a USB powered device like an iPhone or Blackberry or Droid or iPod, being away from an accessible source of power is a big pain in the butt. As many of us spend time in our cars, it’s only natural to have some way to easily charge your devices there. Many new cars already…

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  • September 2, 2009

    IOGEAR KVM via USB: Troubles At First, Great in the End

    About half a year ago, a PR firm sent me out what I thought would be a very good device to have in my tool chest. This was a device designed to facilitate connecting, viewing and sharing data and desktops between Windows PC all via a USB connection. The device, the IOGEAR "USB Laptop KVM Switch with File Transfer," (Product…

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  • May 18, 2009

    3 Unique Features in the Belkin Laptop Cooling Hub

    How often do you come across a product that actually has 3 completely distinct and unique features built into it? And does all three quite well? When I started playing around with the Belkin Laptop Cooling Hub, I was actually pretty surprised by the features that it had. For starters, it is designed to help drop the temperatures of laptops.…

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  • September 16, 2008

    Review: LaCie’s USB-powered Speakers

    Just in time for back to school, LaCie just launched a new set of USB-powered speakers. Designed by Neil Poulton, these reasonably priced, simple-yet-elegant speakers compliment LaCie's previously released FireWire Speaker set. Since not all computers and laptop have the ability to use FireWire, LaCie felt it important to release a set that could be use universally, by Macs and…

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