A personal website by Khürt Williams, with inchoate ramblings on technology, photography, beer, and geekery.
I’ve known family members and even experienced photographers who have lost the photos on the memory card even before offloading them to a computer, and also those who have lost their photos from computer storage. Take a moment to think the time invested and the many beautiful memories you could potentially lose if your current…
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Kiran has a MacBook Air which we just purchased as both high-school graduation (2019) and birthday gift (November). We did the same for her sibling in 2017. When she starts college next year I want her to be somewhat self-sufficient when it comes to tech support. I was thinking through the options for backing up…
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So … you know that process where you use migration assistant to move an account from one Mac to a new one? A one port MacBook present challenges to the process.
Continue ReadingIt's only been a few days since I installed Mac OS X 10.7. I installed it on the iMac and my wife's MacBook. These are the only two computers in the house capable of running the new OS. My vintage G4 Mac mini is stuck running Leopard and my MacBook — my first Intel Mac…
Continue ReadingRecent blog posts by web developer/designer Chris Bowler and photographer François Arnold started me thinking about my own computer backup strategy. I would like to think I've developed a reliable and workable system over the years but on inspection I think have a few gaps. Chris's blog posting is about how he uses Time…
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