Wednesday, January 18, 2012

About Macs: Readers' Choice Awards 2012

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From Tom Nelson, your Guide to Macs
Who's the best? That's the question for you, our readers. Once again, About: Macs is participating in the annual About.com Readers' Choice Awards.

The awards involve three distinct steps. First you, our readers, nominate the products, services, or companies you think should be recognized in each of the award categories. Once the nomination process is complete, we (the guides at About.com, including moi) will select up to five of the top nominees in each category to advance to the voting round.

During the voting round, you'll be asked to vote for the products, services, and companies that you think are the best of the best. Finally, the winners are revealed and bragging rights ensue for the rest of the year.


Readers' Choice Awards 2012 - Nominations Are Open
Nominations are being accepted for the 2012 Readers' Choice Awards. This year, About: Macs is participating in 8 categories:
  • Best Mac System Utility
  • Best Mac Backup Application
  • Best Mac Browser
  • Best Mac Application for Running Windows
  • Best Mac Word Processor
  • Best Mac Image Editor
  • Best Mac Home Theater App or Product
  • Best Mac Peripheral Reseller

Let the voting begin! Tell us who you think is the best in each category... Make Your Nominations Now


Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.3 Review
Carbon Copy Cloner by Mike Bombich is a backup application that seasoned Mac users have always kept in their utility belts. Carbon Copy Cloner won the backup category in our annual Readers' Choice Awards two years in a row. Does it still rate a number one pick?... Read the Review and Find Out
See More About:  using os x  using time machine  backup

Drive Icons Missing From Your Mac Desktop?
One of the questions we frequently receive concerns drive icons that aren't appearing on the Mac desktop.

This question isn't limited to new Mac users; many old hands ask the same question when they start using a new Mac. The common thread is that it's one of those settings that you configure once, and then forget about.

This tip will get your drive icons back on your Mac desktop. It will also let you see connected servers on your network, and a few other goodies. Even if your drive icons aren't missing from your desktop, read on to find out what else you might be missing... Read more

See More About:  hard drive  mac desktop  macintosh faqs

Install Lion Using a Bootable DVD
OS X Lion is sold as a download through the Mac App Store. You may wonder how you can ever boot from an install disk when you never got an install disk.

While a bootable install disk isn't a hard-and-fast requirement for OS X Lion, it's a good idea to have one around, just in case. This article will show you not only how to make a bootable DVD copy of the OS X Lion installer, but also how to use it, should you ever need to... Read more


 


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