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  • ASUS RT-N16 with Tomato firmware (I use Toastman builds).  http://tomatousb.org/   I just looked at my uptime and it's over 105 days...  I had to unplug the router 105 days ago to move furniture around.  This thing is rock solid and hasn't eve…
  • If you've got the Dropbox app, it will automatically upload phone pictures. That way you don't need to use iTunes to grab your pictures and you can stop using it on your computer altogether. You can also access pictures you've put into your Dropbo…
  • Well then, that makes sense. Carry on!
  • May I ask why you need an SSD for the external storage? If you're just storing random files and media, a hard drive would be much more cost effective and give you a lot more storage capacity. Most of the benefits of an SSD are realized when you …
  • To stop Windows from automatically rebooting when it blue screens, do the following.  Of course, this is in English--I assume the translation will be pretty straightforward.   -Open up the start menu, right click "Computer" and select "Propert…
  • There are products out there to do exactly that.  The Optibay is one of them: http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/
  • In my experience, it really doesn't matter. Get memory from a well-known manufacturer that meets the specs your computer can use. Personally, I've used G.Skill in several computers and like it. You can find good prices on it and customer support …
    in Memory Comment by smax February 2012
  • I do know that at least in the past the amount of supported RAM was due to hardware limitations. The first MBP could only handle 2GB, the second only 3GB and the third version 4GB tops. This had nothing to do with Apple's support and everything to…
  • Boot into verbose mode by holding Cmd-V when you start the computer up. Hopefully you'll be able to see where it's hanging (if it's even getting that far).
  • I'm curious, what computer did you swap the drive into?
  • Boot camp isn't very explicit about removing the boot camp partition. It looks like it's going to have you install Windows again, but keep going forward until you get to the partitioning screen. The program will ask you to download drivers and eve…
  • Just a thought here, but every so often an account pops up saying that OpenDNS is god, bumping the thread. All of these accounts all have one post and no activity other than that post. Could someone from OpenDNS be doing this to push their own D…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin The quickest way would be to put your SSD into an external USB enclosure and clone your old system onto it. Then do a test boot from your new machine to verify it works ok and then put it inside the machine. …
  • You can remove Windows partitions through Boot Camp Assistant also. Use that no nondestructively return your hard drive to what it was before. That way you don't have to copy anything back and forth and you don't lose your data. Of course, back…
  • http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB...co=MTY3ODQ5OTY Go nuts.
  • VGA to S-Video/RCA: http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...seq=1&format=2 VGA to Component (6ft linked, they have lengths from 6 inches to 50 feet): http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...seq=1&format=2 Just look around on that site …
  • Pretty much yes. You'll have to set it up to do what you ant the first time you run it and I'm not exactly sure how it handles old versions of files, but it should work just fine for what you're using it for.
  • I don't know why so may people here get so bent out of shape with the mention of any other computer manufacturer and/or Windows. Windows will run in Boot Camp very well and it'll suit your needs just fine. If you wanted to down the road, you c…
  • I noticed that my backups were taking forever to start and finish, at least at first. It was probably a result of my cat attacking the power cord to my backup drive... I really want to kill him sometimes. Anyway, I don't know of a way to preven…
  • I don't know about Time Machine with multiple disks, but I do know that Carbon Copy Cloner can do this. You can even set it to archive old versions and schedule it to automatically run whenever the drive is plugged in.