The My Passport Studio is a portable hard drive that’s bus powered—it doesn’t include a power adapter. The drive ships in a Mac-friendly format, and works with Leopard’s built-in disk back up utility, Time Machine.
Apple to .Mac subscribers: Sync bookmarks by Sunday.Mac subscribers should sync any bookmarks they’ve saved through the online subscription service by July 6, as part of Apple’s transition to the new MobileMe service.
Essential mobile gear As a Macworld editor, I’m often asked what I pack in my laptop bag; here’s a look at the kinds of accessories that are on my must-have on-the-go list, along with some specific examples of them.
Fix and prevent iPhone freezes and crashes Freezes and crashes are generic iPhone problems that can occur in any iPhone software, from Safari to Maps. In this excerpt from Take Control of Your iPhone, Ted Landau explains how to recover from freezes and crashes and how to avoid them in the first place.
Fitting your files on a MacBook Air If you’ve ordered a MacBook Air, you’ve got some storage decisions to make. The 80GB of storage that ships with this thin notebook goes against the trend of higher-capacity hard drives. But not to worry—Joe Kissell has some advice on how to make sure all your vital files and applications fit on your new laptop.
Mobile Mac: The portable hotspot If you travel with colleagues for business trips, or if your multiple-Mac family brings its laptops on vacation, getting Internet access for everyone can be an exercise in configuration frustration. There is an alternative: a cellular router.
Improving AirPort's range While Wi-Fi signals are supposed to reach 150 feet in any direction from a gateway, that optimistic number is rarely reached indoors.
Review: My Passport Studio portable hard drive The My Passport Studio is a portable hard drive that’s bus powered—it doesn’t include a power adapter. The drive ships in a Mac-friendly format, and works with Leopard’s built-in disk back up utility, Time Machine.
Review: Little Big Disk Quadra 500GB portable hard drive LaCie’s Little Big Disk Quadra is a high capacity, portable storage device that can be powered off of a FireWire connection. It will cost you considerably more than a similar capacity desktop drive, but its RAID configuration helps keep the drive competitive with desktop drives in terms of performance.
Review: Sierra Wireless Compass 597 USB modem The Sierra Wireless Compass 597 is the ultimate cellular data modem combo. The device folds high-speed data access and GPS service into a tiny USB cell modem and pairs it with new Mac OS X software that takes full advantage of the new hardware.
Review: Synchronize Pro X 6.0 With Synchronize Pro X, you have a lot of flexibility to designate what files and folders to include and exclude; the program allows you to create bootable backups as well. Synchronize X Plus is also a great complement to Leopard's Time Machine.
Review: SyncTogether 1.0.2 If you're not a .Mac member or if you want to sync in ways .Mac doesn't permit, Mark/Space's SyncTogether 1.0.2 may meet your needs.
The iPhone as money This week’s iPhone 3G news has Christopher Breen daydreaming of a future where the phone’s ability to know where it is and be able to purchase stuff based on location leads to new possibilities.
AT&T: With partners like this... Some bungled announcements by AT&T have left iPhone users scratching their heads lately. And Philip Michaels wonders if executives at Apple are shaking theirs.
Traveling light while staying in touch Two of Apple’s recent releases—the iPhone and the MacBook Air—can come in handy if you’re on a vacation and want to stay connected without hauling a lot of electronics with you.