Archive for August 20th, 2008

Macs, viruses, and anti-virus software - a thread at MacFixIt’s forums

OSX Hard Drives should have 10 to 15% of their capacity empty or available.

A Thread in the MacFixIt Forums about missing hard drive space

http://www.macfixitforums.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/353391

WhatSize - a utility for viewing files and their sizes version 4.3.1, released on August 19, 2008

Grand Perspective - a free utility for viewing filesizes

MacFixIt http://www.macfixit.com/ MacFixIt Forums

MacInTouch http://www.macintouch.com/ MacInTouch Reader Reports

Accelerate Your Mac http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/

Newer Technology Universal Drive Adapter - connects ATA/IDE/SATA to USB2 *New 2008 Version* $29.99

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/U2NV2SPATA/

About Apple Macs & FireWire 400 for external startup/booting

All FireWire Equipped Apple Computer models since 2001 support booting this drive via FireWire when a proper, supported OS has been loaded onto this Drive.

Booting via FireWire requires Mac OS 8.6 or later or any version of Mac OS X.

About Apple Macs & USB 2.0 for external startup/booting

Apple Officially supports USB 2.0 Bootability on all Intel Processor based desktop, laptop, and tower models. Unofficial support exists for various PowerPC models.

Macintouch Reader Reports - Hard Drives

One of my favorite external harddrive enclosures. About News Release NewerTech upgrades miniStack v2.5 to SATA interface NewerTech Site NewerTech® miniStack v2.5

OWC Add your own 3.5″ SATA Hard Drive $80

AppleJack 1.43 OSX 10.2 - 10.4.11

http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=2005041817191411

AppleJack is a command-line utility that makes a number of troubleshooting procedures available via single-user mode at startup. And, perhaps more importantly to the typical user, it makes these procedures easy to perform. After installing AppleJack — you should print out the ReadMe file during installation so you have a copy handy — it simply becomes part of the single-user mode interface: AppleJack FREE - donations

http://applejack.sourceforge.net/

DiskWarrior 4 - OSX 10.3.9 - 10.5

http://www.macworld.com/article/131153-3/2007/12/eddyawards2007.html

DiskWarrior turns ten years old in fall of 2008, and in the past decade, no other utility has come close to challenging its prowess at repairing disk-directory problems. DiskWarrior 4 () is no exception. The long-awaited Intel-native version of the utility adds features for ferreting out corrupted preference files, repairing OS X permissions, repairing and rebuilding access control lists, and repairing more types of disk problems than previous versions could handle. DiskWarrior remains as valuable today as it ever was.—ROB GRIFFITHS Alsoft; $100 OSX 10.3.9 - 10.5

La Cie SilverKeeper OSX 10.2 to 10.4.11 FREE v1.1.4 of SilverKeeper is not compatible with OS X 10.5.x

http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/

SuperDuper! ver 2.5 FREE ($27.95 enables all features) Bootable Complete Backups

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

Carbon Copy Cloner OSX 10.4 to 10.5 FREE (added features $10) Bootable Complete Backups

http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

Prosoft Data Backup 3 OSX 10.2-10.5 $60 - FREE with OWC HD’s Bootable Complete Backups

http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_backup.php

ChronoSync synchronizes files and folders from one disk location to another. OSX 10.2 - 10.5 $30

http://www.econtechnologies.com/site/Pages/ChronoSync/chrono_overview.html

Synchronize! Pro X is a file synchronization and backup utility for Mac OS X. OSX 10.3 - 10.5 7day demo $100 Bootable Complete Backups

http://www.qdea.com/pages/pages-sprox/sprox1.html

QRecall Backup and Document Archiving for the Macintosh  $40

http://www.qrecall.com/features.jsp