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Diskwarrior 4.0 is finally here!
Diskwarrior is The Essential Mac Disk Utility. Alsoft says so. I say so. Most Mac admins worth their salt say so. So there you have it. For too long we've been waiting on Alsoft to show us a little more love, though. Intel Macs are standard across ...
DiskWarrior 4.1 update adds Leopard compatibility
DiskWarrior, my personal favorite disk repair utility (especially if the problem drive is the startup disk) has just been updated to Version 4.1. The new version is now fully compatible with Leopard (there were some issues with repairing disk ...
Has DiskWarrior's Eddy award been statue-napped?
Earlier tonight during Shawn King's Your Mac Life show, a chat room participant delivered a chilling warning to Alsoft, publishers of the venerable and vital DiskWarrior utility: a cherished possession, the 2007 Eddy award for DiskWarrior, was being ...
Defragging iPods for speed?
According to this post over at iPodHacks, somebody ran DiskWarrior on his iPod and it sped everything up. Of course, the post is from January 2004, and its talking about doing this in Jaguar. Also, according to the post, he claims to have defragged ...
Ask TUAW: how do you maintain your Mac?
Last Friday a reader wanted to know how the TUAW community keeps their Macs and their displays clean. This week I figured I'd post a reader's question about maintaining a Mac under the hood. I lost the reader's email, so I apologize to whoever sent ...
Micromat TechTool Protege
I
service a lot of Macintosh computers. For years, I've been carrying around a portable firewire hard drive
(most recent is the small 80GB Lacie one) with a firewire cable. I can easily boot off the "Tools" partition
I've created on the ...
Have You Backed-up Today?
There's nothing worse that losing data from a failed hard drive. It's why so many people so strongly recommend backing up your data. If you don't have a backup routine in place, start one today. The old adage "it's not if, but when" applies ...
TUAW Best of the Week
You made it to the weekend. Congratulations! And once again, we're pleased to bring you our picks for the best posts of the week. Go grab a donut, a hot and highly caffeinated beverage, and enjoy these gems from the TUAW week gone by.
iTunes Repair ...
Mac 101: Yes, Intel Macs can be booted from an external USB drive
More Mac 101, our ongoing series of tips and tidbits for new Mac users. Update: As the comments point out and Low-End Mac confirms, support for USB booting was present in the Mac OS 9 era with the introduction of dual-channel USB in 1999, available ...
Data recovery: The option of last resort
There is no shortage of stories here on TUAW (and elsewhere) that extol the benefits of backing up your data. Apple even makes it ridiculously easy to do so -- with Mac OS X 10.5, Time Machine, a blank drive, and some spare time, you're ...
MacUpdate Promo Spring Bundle revealed
The MacUpdate Promo Spring Bundle has been revealed, and it is, as the kids say, wicked (or sick, or whatever the kids say). This thing is packed with truly useful applications. If you were considering buying any one of these apps, the $49.99US ...
TUAW Tip: What to do when a disk goes bad
We've all been there. The external disk you bought three or four years ago, which has been working great so far, starts to click. And it's not a good click ... it's the kind of click that gives you the spinning beach ball of death. Poopie. Sounds ...
