Vudu hints movies may hit iPad or iPhone, other tablets

Vudu chief Ed Lichty in a talk on Friday expressed hope that his movie streaming service might come to Apple devices. As part of an anticipation to expand into "tablets and other new gizmos," according to Forbes, Lichty thought devices like the iPad and iPhone might follow suit. He didn't give an indication of how close these were or whether there would have to be any changes....

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MacBook Pro Is Editors? Choice

Computer Shopper gives the new 13-inch MacBook Pro a score of 9.3/10 and makes it their Editors? Choice. Reviewer Jonathan Rougeot writes that MacBook Pro ?continued to trounce its competition in our battery test? and notes that the processor performance ?far exceeded expectations.? He concludes: ??once again, Apple takes a notebook that we already loved and makes it even better.?

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Several networked and non-networked options for Time Machine backups

This hint collects together what I have learned about solutions for Time Machine backups. There are a number of viable solutions, and I cover several of them.

External USB or Firewire drive

The most basic solution is a directly-attached external USB drive enclosure. This might be okay for desktop machines, but what bothers me about this is that both the Mac and the drive are on the same power circuit. If lighting strikes, then both can get hit at the same time. In a Mac Pro, you can use another internal drive for TM. And there are also external RAID solutions like I mention below. Unless you are particularly disciplined, this is a lousy solution for portable Macs. When I was going this route, I was lucky if I remembered to plug in the backup drive once a week. Maybe other people can do better than that, but it's still inconvenient.

Thus, I prefer networked solutions. However, at the end of this hint, I go into a discussion on why TM is a great des ...

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