Category Archives: Upgrades

Recondition an SSD on the Mac… for free!

Posted on June 21, 2010 by JasonTomczak

As I mentioned a long, long time ago on this site, I upgraded my 17″ MacBook Pro with a Corsair 128GB SSD. The speed was astounding… for the first 5-6 months. Then things started to slow down. It started to … Continue reading →

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Good, Inexpensive Laptop Feet

Posted on October 4, 2009 by JasonTomczak

One of my favorite laptop accessories is/was made by an Oregon company and sold in local Mac Stores. They’re the ever useful and popular Dr. Bodelin’s laptop bumpers. The laptop bumpers raise the back end laptops up by about 1″ … Continue reading →

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Snow Leopard: Are your zip files not unzipping?

Posted on August 30, 2009 by JasonTomczak

After updating my MacBook Pro to Snow Leopard, I noticed that I was unable to open .zip archives. I use The Unarchiver to open my Mac and PC-compatible archives. When I attempted to open a zip file, Unarchiver had been … Continue reading →

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