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Quick Tip of the Week: Taking advantage of .Mac Sync
Using .Mac sync in Mac OS X Leopard, you can synchronize most of your personal data ? including contacts, bookmarks, iCal events, Dock items, Dashboard widgets and more ? among the multiple Macs you use at work and home. In fact, .Mac Sync even lets you add your iPhone to the mix. Find out how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
Delivering automatic, constant, complete, wireless backups
?You can?t imagine how satisfying it is to know that if your hard drive dies, you will lose no more than one hour of work,? relates David Pogue (nytimes.com) in his review of Time Capsule. ?The Time Machine automatic backup feature of the latest Mac OS X version backs up your Macs onto the Time Capsule, automatically, constantly, completely and wirelessly. And in my book, automatic, constant, complete backups are the only kind that really count.?
Creating Algorithmic Art on a Mac
Using his 24-inch iMac, Jean-Pierre Hébert, the 68-year-old artist-in-residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara, California, creates ?algorithmic art? in a variety of media?from sand to copper to tree bark. ?Mac OS X is a very good environment for me to work in,? he says. ?It offers the best of all possible worlds.?
Now playing on iTunes U: TERRA
The first online science and nature film series, TERRA lets us enjoy the compelling documentaries produced by the grad students in the Science and Natural History Film Program at Montana State University. Through multiple seasons of programming, TERRA introduces us to the nature of our world.
Time Capsule can save digital heirlooms
?If your mom or dad has a Mac, help them safeguard their digital heirlooms with Apple?s Time Capsule,? implores Eric M. Strauss (abcnews.com). ?Time Capsule combines simple setup and a speedy wireless network with automatic backup in a tidy box. Plus, recovering Aunt Chippie?s first black-jack victory photo after your mom?s hard drive crashes will certainly make it all worth the cost.?
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Last Updated: Monday, May, 12, 2008