US Data Recovery specialist Datacent have published a list of failing hard drive sounds that will send shivers down the spine of anyone not using Dr Logic Backup
Some of my personal favourites are:
A Western Digital 500GB drive with bad bearings
A Seagate desktop drive with degrading heads making a thrashing, then clicking sound
And one I’ve experienced on my laptop
We’ve all wanted to type that word that’s on the tip of our tongue but have difficulty in spelling it when typing it into the computer. Or when the spell check fails completely at your attempts on a word. So how can your Mac be of any help? Well, in addition to a fully featured dictionary and thesaurus built in; it can also Auto-Complete your words as you type.
The magic combination? Option-Escape or SHIFT-F5
Simply type the first couple of letters of word and press the magic keys; and up will pop a scrollable list of words which match those first letters. Try it!
This delightful feature should work in most Mac OS X applications (i.e. Cocoa based) but you may encounter the odd one or two that don’t. Most notably Microsoft Word.
I was down at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday celebrating Polish Independence Day (11th November 1918) with my family, including my grandfather, Thomas Marszalek, who was interviewed by the BBC News website.
Poland did not exist for 123 years from 1795 after the third partitioning split the country between Russia, Prussia and Austria. What is remarkable is that even though it was illegal to speak the language, Polish and the Polish culture both survived during this time.
We our now entering our sixth year as a limited company and would like to extend a big thank you to all our clients for their support and custom!
Doctor Logic was founded on the 29th of October 2003 and we are proud to say that we are still working with most of the clients from my two years as a sole trader previous to this.
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