The Mac OS X 10.7 Lion PocketGuide
Review

On September 27, 2011, in Book Review, Mac OS X, Review, by Mark Greentree

The Mac OS X 10.7 Lion PocketGuide
Author: Jeff Carlson
Publisher: Peachpit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-321-77661-7, 240 pages
Price: Paperback US$11.99, Book + eBook Bundle US$16.19, eBook only US$9.59

If you’re after a quick pocket guide book that offers more detail than other competing books, I suggest you pick up The Mac OS X 10.7 Lion PocketGuide book.

The author, Jeff Carlson, takes readers through Lion in a way that anyone at any level can adapt to. Within the easy to follow guides in each chapter, readers will find a treasure trove of addition hints and tips to help you perfect your user experience.

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Review – Norton Online Backup 25 GB

On July 1, 2010, in Review, by Scott Willsey

Norton Online Backup 25 GB
Company: Symantec

Price: $49.99 for up to 5 computers with a maximum of 25 GB of backup storage.
http://nobu.backup.com
http://www.symantec.com/

Pervasive fast Internet connections have changed our lives in many ways. One interesting example is the growing field of online computer backup services. As more people realize the need to have an offsite backup component to their backup strategy, or simply want to avoid the complexity of maintaining many hard drives, online backup solutions continue to gain in popularity. Interestingly, many of the popular online backup services are not from previously established big name companies, but that has changed with the advent of the Norton Online Backup service from Symantec Corporation.

Symantec is well known in the PC world for their security and antivirus products, among others. They also have traditional backup and system imaging solutions, so branching into online backup services seems like a natural extension for them. Given their experience in providing software and services to the huge Windows market, I was excited to see how their online backup offering stacked up to the competition from a Mac user’s point of view.

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