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Software

Carbon Copy Cloner updated to 3.3.1

Late Tuesday, Carbon Copy Cloner, the shareware favorite for drive cloning operations by Mike Bombich, has released version 3.3.1 of the program. The new version, a 3.6 megabyte download, adds the following changes: – Addressed an issue in which CCC was not properly aborting a scheduled task when the target volume disappeared, which would result […]

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iPhone 3GS security

iPhone 3GS Hardware Encryption Cracked in Two Minutes

As cool as the recently-released iPhone 3GS may be, there may be room for improvement. According to a blog entry over on Wired’s Gadget Lab, iPhone Forensics expert Jonathan Zdziarski describes how the hardware encryption of the iPhone 3Gs can be worked around and demonstrates how both the passcode and backup encryption can be bypassed […]

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MacBook Pro News

Apple Opts for Slower SATA Spec for Hard Disk Drives in New 13″ MacBook Pro

In spite of Apple’s introduction of the 13″ unibody MacBook Pro notebook at WWDC last week, it may have opted for a slower standard. According to Engadget, the new MacBook Pro notebooks that ship with conventional hard disks may only have a 1.5GBps SATA enabled, while SSD configs are apparently getting the full 3.0GBps SATA […]

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How-To

How-To: Work Around Delays, Hangs in Time Machine

Let’s face it, Time Machine is a spiffy and useful thing as well as one of the main bells and whistles of Mac OS X 10.5. This isn’t to say it’s without its bugs and despite Apple’s best efforts, there are times where backups appear to hang or stall out sans warning. You may be […]