I'm helping my Dad out with installing some software on his MacBook Air but since he didn't spend the money to buy the additional external CDROM drive, I'm kind of stuck. Is there some sneaky way to read CDROM or DVD disks on the Air even though there's no drive actually hooked up?...

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Like a lot of people, I have a printer at home along with a couple of high-end printers in my office. Not infrequently I find that I press "Print" in one of my Mac OS X applications just to watch it queue up for the wrong printer, invariably the one that's not where I am. I know how to delete the print jobs but is there some easy way to just redirect them from the...

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The purpose of cases are to protect and so it should be no surprise to find out that plastic protective cases for laptops and phones get dinged up and scratched. The advancement in plastic materials, however, and ability to pour just about any color or finish seems to have let manufacturers leap too far ahead and produce products that are remarkable both in their attractive appearance and their fragility. In this piece I'll talk about...

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Dell just introduced a new laptop that's getting a lot of buzz because of its inevitable comparison with the popular Macbook Air (a laptop that I used here at Ask Dave Taylor, as it happens). I'm lucky to be here at SXSW 2009 where they're letting us play with one and got a bunch of photos of the computer adjacent to my own machine......

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