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Apple releases Lion Recovery Disk Assistant to function with external hard drives

If your Lion partition is being finicky, this might help. Per AppleInsider, Apple on Monday released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant software to enable users to create recovery partitions on external drives. Lion Recovery Disk Assistant expands Apple’s Recovery features in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to add support for creating a Recovery Disk on external […]

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Forthcoming Microsoft Office 2011 update to add support for Mac OS X 10.7 feature base

The good news: Mac OS X 10.7 (“Lion”) is out. The bad news: Not all of Microsoft’s products support all of the Mac OS X 10.7 feature base. Still, there may be hope on the horizon. Per the Office for Mac blog, Microsoft has revealed that a forthcoming update for Office for Mac 2011 will […]

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OWC launches Data Doubler DIY Kit for Unibody MacBook, MacBook Pro systems

On Tuesday Other World Computing announced the immediate availability of its OWC Data Doubler 1.0 DIY Kit for adding up to 2.0TB of internal storage capacity to Apple’s “Unibody” MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks. The US$174.99 MSRP OWC Data Doubler 1.0TB DIY Kit is now available and features a Data Doubler optical bay converter bracket, […]

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How-To: Successfully sync multiple calendars in iCal

If there’s anything that’ll send you screaming over the hills per your Mac, it’s the synchronization of multiple iCal calendars for different computers and mobile devices. Fortunately, the cool cats at CNET have posted the following guide as to how to deal with syncing problems and how to work around this: “Log out of MobileMe: […]

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Apple release Security Update 2010-007 update for Mac OS X 10.5 operating systems

On Wednesday, Apple released Security Update 2010-007, bringing the same security patches included in the recent Mac OS X 10.6.5 release to Macs running 10.5 Leopard client or server versions. Per Macworld, the more prominent fixes included in the update is a fix for a bug in Apple Type Services which could allow the downloading […]