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When you drop off your computer at our front desk, mention our Yelp ad and we'll knock $20 off the total cost of your repair. We'll help you out with anything from upgrading to a larger hard drive, speedier memory, replacing that cracked screen, or attempting a full data recovery.

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"I don't know much and I know this: had you not advised me as you did and walked me through booting my iBook in Target Mode, there is no way possible I would have been able to rescue the contents of my hard drive.

'Thank you' isn't sufficient to convey my gratitude and appreciation.

Unless you've been living under a rock, it's hard to avoid the news that Apple released a new iPhone, the iPhone 4. But for those of you with an iPhone 3 or 3GS, you may find it hard to stomach the cost of the new phone along with renewing your contract with AT&T for another couple years. So another one of Apple's announcements, the newly available upgrade called iOS 4, is welcome news for the rest of us.

"iOS" is Mr. Jobs' new name for the iPhone operating system and iOS 4 upgrades the core capabilities on the iPhone 3 and 3GS and to a lesser degree the iPod Touch and original iPhone. Even without the latest iPhone, you can get a lot of its features of the iPhone 4 with a simple software upgrade.

There's tons of articles about what features are included in iOS 4, so feel free to read Ars Technica's review of iOS 4. However, we know that a lot of our customers have iPhones, so we figured we'd pull out a few key things that every iPhone user should know about upgrading before they push the button.

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We've seen an obscure problem for one of our servers running on 10.6.4 (Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server) which was upgraded from 10.5. When attempting to implement the iCal Email Invitations function, I found that all of the usual tricks didn't work.

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Frequently, I've had issues with Windows machines accessing OS X Servers just set up with SMB sharing. It seems that the Windows client needs to allow a certain type of authentication to allow the machine to log into the OS X Server, and that setting isn't correct by default. The problem also happens for Linux servers as well, not just Mac OS X Server.

Note that by making these changes, you're making things that much less secure on the Windows side of things by allowing an older, less secure encryption method for authentication. While most of you won't care (because you're just looking for a solution for an in-house server), if you're working with a server which is publicly available (for some crazy reason), then get to know the facts before making these changes.

Here's directions on how to make that change in many of the various flavors of Windows:

One of the best parts of newly-released Apple technologies is visiting the Apple store to try them for yourself. Unfortunately, these visits can be accompanied by long waits due to all the people that want to give the new devices a go. Even a table full of brand new iPads can be packed, leaving you there to peek over someone's shoulder while you wait.

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One of our clients reported that Snow Leopard's iCal is slow to bring up matching invitees for a meeting, especially if you have thousands of Address Book Contacts. We did some research and this is what we found.

While it looks like Apple may need to address this in an update (10.6.3 is marginally faster than 10.6.2), but until then, here's a quick tip on how to deal with a slow iCal when you have a large address book:

1) Create the appointment, but don't click on the "Add Invitees..." like you normally would
2) Instead press Option-Cmd-A (or select "Address Panel") in the Window menu
3) Search for the contact in that window and drag and drop the name into the "Add Invitees..." area on the appointment