Facebook Unavailable – Day 5

October 9, 2009

This is the 5th day that my Facebook account has been unavailable due to site maintenance issues. The difference today is that Facebook has confessed that the problem is lasting longer than expected.

The lack of communication up until this point, combined with the fact that I know of other Facebook users that have not been [...]

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Facebook Unavailable and the Perils of Cloud Computing

October 8, 2009

[Authors note: Today's date is October 12, 2009, the 8th day after the outage, and my Facebook account is now available]. Please see my post Facebook Available on the 8th Day!
So far, my Facebook account has been “unavailable” for 4 days.
Right off the bat, I must tell you that I understand that Facebook is provided [...]

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Snow Leopard: Easy on the Hard Drive

June 10, 2009

Snow Leopard Refined
This week Apple, Inc. announced many enhancements and refinements to Mac OS X, dubbing the latest version “Snow Leopard.” And with it come some pretty cool refinements to hard drive usage, storage, backup and energy savings. Backups through Time Machine, Mac OS X’s built-in backup solution (which came with Leopard), have been improved [...]

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New External Hard Drive for Mac (and Windows)

June 7, 2009

Portable External Hard Drive
Iomega just announced a Mac-compatible external hard drive, the Iomega® eGo™ Portable Hard Drive. This portable hard drive, made of aluminum, has a stylish design. It is rugged and comes with software to increase its usability. It is backed with a three-year limited warranty.
This new portable drive has three connector ports. Firewire [...]

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Must-Have Professional Data Recovery Tool

June 4, 2009

Let’s say your computer won’t boot up, but you suspect that there’s nothing wrong with the hard drive. Or you suspect that a hard drive is failing, but you want to quickly try it in several computers before declaring it to be dead or in need of being sent to a company that specializes in [...]

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