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March 8, 2009

How to Show the Date and Time on Your Mac’s Menu Bar

Filed under: Macintosh — Tags: date and time, Mac, Macintosh, Macintosh clock, menu bar, System Preferences — admin @ 9:00 am

by Dee-Ann LeBlanc

Are you one of those people who never seems to know what day it is? On OS X it’s easy to see the time at a glance by looking to the upper right of your menu bar.

Adding just the day of the week is simple enough. In the upper left of your menu bar, click the Apple, then click “System Preferences.” In the “System” section of the “System Preferences” window, click “Date & Time,” then in the “Date & Time” dialog box, click “Clock.” There, you can check the “Show the day of the week” checkbox.
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March 7, 2009

How to Copy Data Files From Your Mac to Your iPhone

Filed under: applications,digital media,file transfer,Macintosh,mobile computing — Tags: iPhone, iPod, Mac, Macintosh — admin @ 9:00 am

by Davis Strom

If you have an iPhone, one of your frustrations is that you don’t easily have any way to make copies of your files from your Mac desktop and view them. You can use iTunes to move videos, photos and music files, but anything else is an issue.

It is an odd omission: Any iPod since the very early days has the ability to act as an USB-connected hard drive and you can drag and drop files to it—as long as you have enough room on your iPod, that is. Luckily, there is a solution – actually, several solutions. You’ll need to download an app for your iPhone, and we found many of them that claim to offer this feature. Sadly, none of them allows this simple configuration of being able to plug your iPhone into your computer via USB. But since the iPhone is chock full of connectivity, there are several ways to skin the file transfer cat. We tested a variety of apps that can connect in between your desktop and iPhone in some interesting, and perhaps too clever, ways.
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March 5, 2009

How to Use SuperDuper to Make Backups and Bootable Mac Disks

Filed under: applications,computer hardware,data storage and recovery,Macintosh — Tags: back up hard drive, backup Mac, backup software, SuperDuper, Time Machine — admin @ 9:00 am

by David Strom

After having my laptop stolen from the trunk of my locked car in a shopping mall parking lot, I am very paranoid about making copies of my data. Apple’s latest version of the Mac OS includes backup software called Time Machine that will make regular copies of the files on your hard drive. But what if you aren’t running this version (10.5) or want to use something else? My recommendation is a product called SuperDuper. You can try it for free with some limitations before you purchase a copy for less than $30.
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