2011 is winding down, Hanukkah is underway, and Christmas is right around the corner…but you can still ring in the new year with brand new Apple gear — all it takes is a call to Santa’s West Coast offices here at Island Technologies! Working with two of Saint Nick’s speediest reindeer — UPS and FedEx … Continued
You’re backing up all your data…right? If you’re not, you should be. These days, your critical documents, family photos and entertainment collection all live on your computer’s hard drive — a hard-working and reliable little device that nevertheless has (according to a 2007 study by Google) a 3% annual failure rate when it’s brand-new — … Continued
If you’re like us, your go-to computer is a Mac, but sometimes you need to run Windows stuff on it. Apple’s Boot Camp (as well as Parallels Desktop 7 and VMWare Fusion 4) make it easy to run PC software on your Mac, but there’s just one little problem: Mac and Windows keyboards aren’t quite … Continued
Okay, let’s take a quick poll—everybody whose email password is password, please raise your hand… …if you raised your hand, please go directly to your computer and change your email password now (do not pass GO, do not collect $200, etc., etc.). The rest of you might want to wipe those smug grins off your … Continued
We live digital lifestyles packed full of computers, smart phones, tablets and various other electricity-eating accessories—and our modern lives come with modern problems: It’s hard enough keeping up with the never-ending wave of new gadgets and gizmos…now we have to figure out how to safely dispose of our steadily growing pile of defunct and defective … Continued
