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The Waterstones/Sony Reader debacle

I was on my high horse this morning following a misunderstanding with Waterstones, purveyors of eBooks to the Sony Reader....
My first-generation MacBook Air with the 64GB solid-state drive is now one year old. After being sidelined for a month...
Here's the final addition to my security and backup strategy: cloud backup to Carbonite. However good your backup system, you...
New to the MacOldie household is Virgin's 50 megabit cable broadband. Up to now I've had their 20 mbps offering...
My interest in backup and security has burgeoned in the last six months. The more we store on our hard...
Along with my adoption of PGP's Whole Disk Encryption, I've also been having a review of my backup strategy. Backups...
I've had an Elgato TV tuner stick attached to my iMac and before that to a Mac Mini for a...
The new Cinema 24in Cinema display arrived at the nerve centre and is now resplendently established next to my MacBook...
Another small point on data security: the disks in the new unibody MacBooks and MacBook Pros are very easy to...
Back in October I was sitting on an Athens tram (pre riots) listening to one of those excellent podcasts from...
After weeks of procrastination I finally made up my mind: MacBook or MacBook Pro. For all the best reasons I...
It is just so easy to download iPhone applications that most owners have page after page of apps, many of...