With little hope of getting anything recovered, I gave up, fired up my Mac and started from scratch.
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The download on the Mac took about 30 minutes and then I saw on my Mac the familiar tree-ring background.
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And yes of course I have a couple of boxes with all the issues, my t-shirts and my Mac the Knife mug.
Just like my Mac Mini the best player is VLC, it has no trouble playing any file I throw at it with almost no droped frames.
It handles attachments incredibly easily, HTML5 looks great and mail gets pushed to the inbox right away (I often receive emails on the Z10 before they arrive on my Mac).
"I'm a Mac user, but on my Mac I have multiple instances of Windows--XP, Vista, very old Windows stuff and the very latest stuff, like Windows Server 2008, " he says.
In the '90s when people would ask me why I bothered using my crashy Mac, I told them it was because I liked to program music and it had the best programs.
Thanks to the Mac, I quit my job at the ad agency and went into business for myself.
And then downloaded to all my other devices, including a Mac.
The backup email address on my Gmail account is that same .mac email address.
But I can name a dozen Fleetwood Mac songs off the top of my head, and I'm hard pressed to come up with many Kris Kristofferson or Patti Griffin songs.
And ditto for my love of fast food and the occasional Big Mac.
Many of my clients ask me: should I buy a Mac or Windows PC?
Also on Flickr, "Green My Apple" is a Greenpeace-led pressure group of Mac devotees who want Apple to make more environmentally-friendly computers.
When you speak to Mac people you see a loyal following that in my opinion will keep using the products of Apple.
The guy in my client meeting had a MacBook that ran both Windows and Mac OS so it came with a lot of extra memory to handle both operating systems.
My first computer (bought in August 1986) was an Apple Mac Plus.
My first computer was a Commodore 64 that I owned for 4 years before getting a Mac 512K, which lasted for longer than I can remember.
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In the Mac world, where Apple controls hardware, operating system, software, and all my iOS devices, an upgrade can make them all work better together.
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Apple today updated its Find My iPhone utility with driving directions, providing users on the hunt for a lost iOS device or Mac with an exact route to its last known location.
But the best and most memorable game I played on the old Mac was Might and Magic II, a game that devoured many, many hours of my childhood adventuring around the world of CRON.
My "luk" was not "werking" as ghosts in the machine mysteriously wiped out the MAC address on the USB HomePlug adapter in the unit I tried, and the HomePlug bridge that I normally use had some compatibility issues.
The Mac was where I learned to type, where I first began tinkering around with stories of my own.
As with my spreadsheet method, CarCare is based on the notion that you're willing to enter data into your Mac about as often as you take the car in to be serviced.
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