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Wondering what to do with that Time Machine application that comes with the new Mac OS X Leopard? Have you thought about plunking $300 on Apple’s Time Capsule?
Don’t do it: wait until you read this review…
The LaCie Corporation have made hard disks for Macs since the beginning of time. They have a new external disk offering called the Big Disk Extreme 1TB. Let me first say yes, that’s 1000 gigabytes of storage! Doubling the offering of Apple’s Time Capsule device. At the time of writing this the disk was being sold for $224. That’s more than $80 in savings over the Time Capsule and twice the storage too. But is it worth it?

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So, what is the first thing you do when you get a dead simple video camera? You take a video of your recent dental implant to send to your cousins in the UK! Imagine how happy my Doctor cousin was upon receiving such a wonderful surprise in their email.
What device am I talking about? The Flip Ultra video camera.

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I’m a big fan of Bluetooth, but not Bluetooth headsets. I know, it’s probably a bit goofy, but I can’t help think that it’s a bad idea to have a wireless electronic device hooked over your ear and beaming random electrical waves into your skull.
Some modern phones have no options – either you use Bluetooth for a headset or you hold the phone itself up to your head – but fortunately the Apple iPhone has a very sophisticated headphone jack that actually lets you plug in a wired headset.

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If you travel as frequently as I do, you’ve probably learned a few things about life on the road, tips that help you avoid problems and ensure that fluffy pillows are the biggest complaint you have, not lost data or crashed laptops.
One of my favorite tips, one that I have seen people ignore with really terrible results more than once, is to never apply a security update, patch or other system change when you’re away from your office. If it goes wrong, you’re in big trouble and you don’t have your local geeks around to help recover things.
The second rule of thumb is: back up your critical files before you leave on your trip and again at least once while on the road. Just in case.
That’s why I was glad to have an extended trip to Hawaii as an excuse to try out a few different approaches to data backup. The candidates: A Corsair 32GB flash drive, a Western Digital 160GB Passport drive and Memeo’s LifeAgent Internet backup system, all connected to my trusty MacBook Pro.

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I’m somewhat of an audiophile and have owned several pairs of high-end headphones. Trouble is, the thing that always breaks first on these headphones is the cord. I always get the cord caught in something or it gets broken somehow. Do you know of any solution to this?

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This is part of a multi-part series on custom stickers. Part one is Custom Stickers For Your Business, part two is A Guide to Buying Custom Stickers and part three is Types of Sticker Printing.
If you’re like most small businesses, or even if your business is a large one, you most likely need to advertise without going over a marketing budget. When you’re marketing budget is pretty limited, you may not want to spend it all on radio and television advertising and print advertising is expensive as well. So, it goes without saying, that stickers are relatively inexpensive to print and they can be a great way to advertise.
Stickers incorporate one of the best forms of advertising there is – word of mouth. When placed in strategic places, or even in the most common of places, stickers are able to generate great interest. Historically, stickers have been well suited on car bumpers, but today you’ll find them literally everywhere. From laptops to backpacks to windshields to storefront doors and windows, stickers can be stuck anywhere and everywhere. No matter where they are stuck, someone is bound to see them and your business will be recognized.
Stickers can be likened to miniature moving billboards…

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