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Will OS X 10.7 “Lion” Bring USB 3.0 To The Mac?
Is "SuperSpeed" USB 3.0 coming to Apple computers? My sources say yes! Apple is a funny company, happy to go their own way even as the rest of the industry piles on to the latest trend. Such is the...
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Local Snapshots in Mac OS X Lion Time Machine: Is It A Good Idea?
Apple is readying the next major release of their Mac OS X operating system. Dubbed “Lion”, Mac OS X 10.7 is widely expected to hit Apple stores in the Summer of 2011, and brings many exciting new...
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Snooping on AirDrop in Apple’s Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”
AirDrop enables direct file sharing over Wi-Fi As computers get easier to use, once-“magical” features like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth begin showing usability issues. Although every modern computer operating...
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Key Storage Features in Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”
Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" is coming, and it's bringing a few storage features to the table Apple’s not an enterprise company or a storage company. In fact, they’re rapidly jettisoning both – consider the...
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Three Key Storage Features Missing in Mac OS X “Lion”
Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" lacks many of the storage features we've long hoped for, including ZFS, iSCSI, and USB 3.0 Last week, at WWDC, Apple introduced many of the features found in their next operating...
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Mac OS X Lion Adds CoreStorage, a Volume Manager (Finally!)
Apple fan boys won’t like to hear this, but Mac OS X was majorly deficient in an area near and dear to my heart. You see, unlike every other modern operating system, Mac OS X lacked a volume manager....
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Undocumented CoreStorage Commands
The commands are there to make CoreStorage do some cool things. But they don't quite work and aren't quite public... Yesterday I noted that Apple included a full logical volume manager in Mac OS X 10.7...
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The Case of the Missing Letters: Another Obnoxious Bug in Dragon Dictate
What’s a love-hate relationship without the love? Whatever that is, that’s what I’ve got going with my copy of Dragon Dictate. I’ve long been a fan of dictation software, but the bugs and usability...
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Why You Should Never Again Utter The Word, “CIFS”
Let me put on my “grumpy old storage guy” hat for a moment: CIFS is not the network storage protocol used by Microsoft Windows, and many other clients. CIFS is dead, and has been for many years. The...
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