Data Rescue 3 Review – Do-It-Yourself Mac Data Recovery Software

by Tom Nelson Have you ever had your hard drive fail? More specifically, have you ever had your hard drive fail when you didn’t have a current (or even relatively recent) backup? If you answered yes, you’re not alone; this unfortunate turn of events happens to many computer users. I always recommend performing frequent backups, [...]

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Drive Genius 3 Review – Drive Genius Makes Disk Management Almost Painless

by Tom Nelson I’ve spent much of this week trying out the latest version of Drive Genius from Prosoft Engineering. This disk utility is geared primarily toward managing, repairing, and optimizing the performance of Mac drives. While there are a few similar drive utilities available for the Mac, Drive Genius 3 has some unique features [...]

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Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.3 Review – Backup Software for the Mac

by Tom Nelson Carbon Copy Cloner by Mike Bombich is a backup application that seasoned Mac users have always kept in their utility belts. With the latest release, Carbon Copy Cloner has refined some of its features, and it’s still a must-have app. Carbon Copy Cloner won the backup category in our annual Readers’ Choice [...]

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SuperDuper 2.6.4 Review – Backup Software for the Mac

by Tom Nelson ShirtPocket Software’s popular SuperDuper backup and cloning utility has recently been updated to version 2.6.4. This reminded me that it’s been a few years since the last time we looked at SuperDuper, when it was at version 2.5. Since then, SuperDuper has acquired some new refinements and gained support for OS X [...]

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VMware Fusion 4 Review

by Tom Nelson VMware Fusion and Parallels are the two leading choices for running Windows or other OSes on a Mac. These two apps have been so popular with About: Macs users that each has won Readers’ Choice Awards over the last two years. VMware has released Fusion 4.x, and in using the new version, [...]

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Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac Benchmark Results

by Tom Nelson Here at About: Macs, we just finished putting Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac through our benchmark tests, to see how well the newest version of Parallels performs. We had already wrapped up the review of Parallels Desktop 7, and just needed to confirm what we say in the review: that Parallels Desktop [...]

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Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac Review

by Tom Nelson Parallels is one of the leading vendors of virtualization applications for the Mac. So when the company recently announced a new version of Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac, I had to grab a copy and take a look. After installing and using the new version, I wrote up a review of Parallels [...]

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Mail 5.0 Wins Over Heinz Tschabitscher, About’s Guide to Email

by Tom Nelson One of the new features of OS X Lion is a brand new version of Apple Mail. Mail 5.0 comes with quite a few changes; improvements to search, smart folders, and exquisite stationery, to name a few. But the biggest change is the overall look and feel. Mail 5.0 has a new [...]

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iMovie and GarageBand for the iPad Now Available

by Tom Nelson Apple has released both iMovie and GarageBand for the iPad a day ahead of the iPad 2′s sales launch. The iMovie app is available as a universal app that runs on the iPod touch (4th generation), iPhone 4, and of course the iPad 2. Not all features are available for all of [...]

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Using iMovie: iMovie Tips and Tricks

by Tom Nelson and Mary F. O’Connor iMovie is one of the most user-friendly video editors for the Mac. But easy doesn’t mean limited. iMovie can produce stunning results. It’s also capable of performing advanced video editing functions. All it takes to learn the basics of iMovie is a few videos to work with, and [...]

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