The YouTube video can be viewed here or at the end of this post. The Navy SEALs have a saying: “Two is one, one is none.” I like to add: “That’s why I carry three!”It is a simple idea with a big lesson: if you have only one of something important, you may effectively have
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This customer was fortunate to have a Time Machine backup. If she hadn’t, she could have faced a serious data loss situation. Additionally, her devices were locked (by the hacker), and she needed to keep her life moving, so she had to rush out and purchase a new iPhone 16e, which, thankfully, she might be
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#1. “Trust, but verify” your Time Machine back up! When a Time Machine backup stops working, it’s often a symptom of a bad internal hard drive. #2. When you buy a new Mac make sure you buy one that’s large enough to accommodate all your data. New iMacs are all pure SSD hard drives and
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Don’t take somebody else’s word that your data is gone forever Despite being told his “totally dead” MacBook Air was beyond saving, we were able to investigate the device and successfully recover this professional pilot’s data at a much lower cost than a clean room data recovery service. Our $59 diagnostic fee is a worthwhile
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Apple released macOS Sequoia and iOS 18 today. I get to see people lose their data every day, so while these updates are exciting, everyone will be anxious to install them. Please don’t install them without a backup. If you need help backing up your Mac with Time Machine, stop by the shop with a
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My sister, after many years of being a partner in a major multi-office, multi-state law firm, resigned to take on a new career practicing a different type of law. I accidentally called her old office number to wish her a happy birthday, but I was surprised to hear a phone system recording that her previous
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When I call myself a lifelong entrepreneur, it’s a true story! This is my first foray into the business world. I will call it a beverage business; it’s a lemonade stand I had on Martha’s Vineyard. The location was amazing. People would bike from one end of the island to the other to get to
Now, I don’t think I’m the person who invented this strategy, but this worked out beautifully for me. I found out from a friend of a friend that a person that I’ve been dying to talk to was flying the same airline that I usually fly out of BWI. So, I decided to meet up
Beware of using a shared iCloud account! If you share an iCloud account, beware! Whether at work or in a relationship with a boyfriend, girlfriend, or husband or wife. If something goes wrong with the relationship, the other party with control over the device can erase your Mac or lock it to render it useless.
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