Stranger than the visage of Saint Aquinas on a hoagie bun is a Mac hard drive icon in the clear shape of a horse head. OMG, is this what they mean by a Trojan malware attack? 

No, most OS X users will recognize something familiar in that shape: It's clearly the silhouette of the venerable OS X Chess application (aka the intellectual aesthete's Minesweeper). All right, but what's that doing there?  Read more »

For my money, Time Machine is the greatest feature Apple introduced with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and one of the niftiest OS X features ever. Boasting always-on backups of every version of every important item on your Mac, it's the first computer backup system to grant zero-effort peace of mind to every Mac owner with typical backup needs.  Read more »

Sure, you expect long-running Mac-focused media like TidBits to offer accurate info on all things Apple. It wouldn't be fair to ask non-Mac outlets to clear that same high-jump bar – yet why do big-name tech media trip over the scantest of hurdles? Read more »

Remember how "the Japanese hate the iPhone"? Well, whoever those rumored people may be, they're not the Japanese who made the iPhone #1 in consumer satisfaction last year, and they're certainly not employees of the iPhone's Japanese carrier, Softbank Mobile. In fact, the only Japanese who hate the iPhone might just be employees of competitors NTT DOCOMO and KDDI.  Read more »

Or: How to stop doing it wrong. How to Reformat a New External Hard Disk over at TidBITS is one of the more useful and surprising technical articles I've seen in a while; it seems that the simple way many of us have been reformatting drives with Disk Utility is not the ideal way to go about it. Take a read and get educated.

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