A Review of Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a wonderfully written book on a very complex individual, Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple and of Pixar. Apparently, he's one of the greatest geniuses in history, revolutionizing entire industries and changing billions of lives. Among his revolutions include the personal computer …

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Mac External Hard Drives

I'm so ticked at manufacturers of external (backup) hard drives made for Macs! All I want is a portable hard drive to back my system up on. Is that too much to ask for? Macs have Time Capsule, but it's not really portable, and even though it does backups, it's more of a wireless router. …

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How to securely delete files (for a Mac) – MacWorld

Reader Steve Carter would like his deleted files to be really, really gone. He writes: How do you delete a file completely and forever? I thought the original still remains on the hard drive until it is overwritten. And is there a way to go back and permanently erase old previously deleted files? We’ll start …

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