While I’ve seen SMARTReporter around for years, for some reason I never decided to use it — until now. SMARTReporter will periodically check the S.M.A.R.T. status of ATA, SATA, and eSATA drives connected to your computer (although, not firewire drives).
What is S.M.A.R.T.? According to Wikipedia, S.M.A.R.T. “is a monitoring system for computer hard [...]

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I’ve never had the need to clone a Boot Camp partition until yesterday. There were several suggestions around the interwebs talking about complicated (well, time consuming) techniques using XP programs, re-creating disk images via boot camp, and re-installing XP and manually dragging/dropping files back. Uhg!
Twocanoes decided to make this super simple, [...]

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Check it out: full-screen, always-on-top, semi-transparent video with “click thru”

the video looks choppy, but was smooth as usual
See how it’s done…

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corewerkz.com%2F2008%2F05%2F24%2Fafloat-watch-full-screen-video-while-working-on-your-mac%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Afloat%3A+Watch+Full-Screen+Video+While+Working+On+Your+Mac’;
addthis_pub = ‘bcometa’;

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I recently learned about Evernote after seeing it on GeekBrief.tv. It’s currently invite only, but I received one a few days after requesting (I also have some available, leave a comment if you want one). Evernote works with any web browser and includes a stand-alone applications for Mac and PC. But what [...]

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With the recent $5 increase in the price of 1Password, many people are wondering if it’s worth the cost. To help you decide, consider the following features 1Password provides that you don’t get with Safari, Firefox, Opera, or any other browser:
• Fill/save multiple identities - Good for forum/online store/blog registrations; keep fake/real identities and [...]

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