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MacWorks is part of the Apple Consultants Network. We provide full service technical support and assistance to Apple and Macintosh clients who are looking for reliable, experienced, information technology professionals. Conveniently located in Madison, CT we can be reached Monday-Saturday, 8:30AM – 6:00PM — (203) 285-6405 or (800) 700-1673 — Urgent requests for help are returned 7 days a week.

Hopefully you were luck enough to pre-order the newest operating system from Microsoft, Windows 7 coming in October 2009. By ordering before July 11th, you were eligible for a 50% discount on the Home or Premium edition.

If your requirements are to run MS Windows on your Mac, MacWorks can assist with your installation and setup. You can choose to use virtualization with Parallels or VMWare Fusion for a single, seamless experience. Or you can create a dual boot system using Apple’s BootCamp technology and choose to boot either from Windows or Mac OS X.

Whatever you choice, MacWorks is available to find the best option to fit your requirements. We serve the entire state of Connecticut working with individuals and major corporations. Give us a call to schedule a consultation.

Pogoplug is a small box that essentially lets you turn any USB hard drive into a network device. Not only does the Pogoplug make your drive available to your Mac or PC, it can be reached in a web browser like Firefox or even on your iPhone!

Setup is extremely easy, you just plug it in, visit my.pogoplug.com to set up an account, and that’s about it.

The Pogoplug shines and is standout because it is the easiest way to get web access to your data – bar none. Sign in to your password protected my.pogoplug.com account and you’re looking at a clean and simple interface through which you can navigate the entire contents of the attached drive. Document, picture, music and movie files are directly accessible and just a click away. If you have write access, you can also do basic management like deleting, renaming, or moving files

If you have an iPhone, a free PogoPlug application lets you browse the entire drive right from the phone via either WiFi or its 3G connection. iPhone-compatible documents open right on your screen when tapped. Tap an MP3 or a movie file, and it starts streaming live from your hard drive anywhere in the world! If you need to save a file, tap a button and it’s downloaded into the phone.

On a personal note, my music library is over 200MB and could not be loaded on even the largest iPod available. No worries with PogoPlug, all my music is instantly available anywhere I have my iPhone.

In the months to come, we here at MacWorks, LLC will be recommending this product as a “must have’ device. It can be very flexible and fit in to many of our clients “workflows”.

This product is just amazing and will literally change the way you organize your life if you are a professional on the go. The best part of all is that this incredible device cost only $99 an is available from PogoPlug.com and at the PogoPlug Store.

One of the best suggestions any consultant can make is to encourage people to back up their data on a regular schedule. With the advent of Time Machine in Leopard OS X 10.5.6 , this task is easier than ever but does not offer the ultimate solution. The best backup is a fully “bootable” copy or “clone” of the computer you are backing up. In steps SuperDuper from Shirt-Pocket with an easy to use interface, automatic scheduling ability and the option to do “incremental” or  “smart” backups.

The program is free to do a basic backup but to unlock the Scheduling, Smart Update (which saves a lot of time),  Sandboxes, scripting, you will need to buy the application for $27.95

Get your free copy of SuperDuper from Shirt-Pocket and start backing up today!