Category Archives: Mac Troubleshooting

January 12, 2013 · 1:53 am

eBook Excerpt: Mac Backup, Maintenance and Troubleshooting

I’ve finally gotten around to posting a page of the eBooks I wrote for Demand Media in the “Macs for Former Windows Users” series this past fall. It’s a page here on the blog documenting the seven eBooks I was thrilled to put together after a multi-year hiatus from technical writing.

I thought I’d commemorate that achievement (the one where I put the page up, not the one where I actually wrote thie books) buy offering an excerpt of one of my favorites of those books, Mac Backup, Maintenance and Troubleshooting.

Enjoy “Approaches to Backup” after the jump.

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Fixing MacBook Keys

I’ve decided to maybe buy a nicely used MacBook Air before the end of the year. So, I’ve been searching eBay obsessively, as I am wont to do, for a deal.I noticed one on eBay that the seller said had a few worn keys, and that seemed to be keeping the price down, so I hit Google to see how hard it is to replace keys on the newer MacBooks.

Here’s a great video laying out the task at hand:

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December 20, 2012 · 6:09 pm