Have you ever seen Time Machine get stuck during a backup run — constantly showing a tiny percentage completion, for instance?

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One way to end a stuck Time Machine backup

My workflow is very email-centric and I’ve often wished I could start a new email in Mail by pressing a keyboard combo in any program. I use QuickSilver, and the regular way of searching for a contact’s email address and then creating a new mail that way seems awkward to me compared to the email address completion Mail.app offers

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Start a new Mail message from anywhere

To turn Spotlight Indexing off and on in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and to remove the Menu Bar Icon, follow these steps…

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10.6: Disable Spotlight and remove Spotlight icon from menu

I run an FTP server on my machine, using Pure-FTPd . Lately, I was getting a lot of noise in my logs about unknown people trying to gain access on my FTP server. I wanted to automate the task of looking through the log and banning the bad IPs, so that my logs will be kept clean from all those try/fails attempts

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Ban Pure-FTPd login attempts by IP after three failures

Shocked that a company as prominent as Danger, Inc. could lose T-Mobile’s Sidekick customers’ data? Protect your business backups by avoiding these six mistakes.

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Six ways to botch your backups

Here’s a few tips on bringing iWeb and Facebook together.

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Integrate your iWeb site with Facebook

A pair of irritating symptoms have made Ted Landau’s experience with Apple’s latest mouse less than magical.

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Bugs & Fixes: Magic Mouse loses its way