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Well here’s another interesting thing, if you didn’t get AppleCare , then you really want it for your MacBook Pro, it retails for $349, but here are the deals. S3142LL/A looks like the auto enroll for the MacBook Pro 15 and 17 and MD012LL/A is the non-autoenroll version part number. There is also…

This seems to be the fastest low profile card that will fit into an Antek ISK-300/150 box. Here are the best prices but it is the eVGA GT 730 DDR5 2GB card: PCPartspicker.com. $71 from SuperBiiz which is cheap although their resellerratings.com are not the best (6.9/10) Neweggbusiness.com. $76 with…

They really do have incredibly low prices and you can these days quadruple dip with: Go to cashbackmonitor.com to find a direct rebate Use your credit card which has points Search retailmennot.com and other sites for promo codes. Right now they are $15 off of $100 although this doesn’t seem…

This stopped working, but was just great. Thank goodness for Google, looking at http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=190&t=94567 and it points out it is a security issue, you have to go to Package Center and select Any Publisher in the settings as this application isn’t signed or approved by Synology. However, the folks at the Synology…

We had a bunch of slowdowns on iPhones here. Dropping to 600KBps on the network rebooting the comcast router seems like the main cure.  But macs have suddenly become unreliable. I’ve been battling vpn software for a while. Used tunnelblick for a while but it seems unstable. Moved to privateinternetaccess’a…

Man this medicare stuff is complicated. Here are some notes and tips on: Plan A This is the hospital related. You pretty much always get this if you worked or your spouse every worked it is free. Otherwise you have to pay a premium of $400/month or so to the…

Now that there is 1TB for free per account up there, it’s time to figure out how to use it, here are some tips: There is an automagic uploader, it watches files on your Mac and when it sees a change, it does an automatic upload and discards duplicates. It…

Well, while Photos may look good, it surely is sad to lose iPhoto for a couple of reasons: Storage. If you don’t use Photos to store you library, then it creates a resources file that is unlinked which can double your disk usage. This makes Photos essentially useless for those…

Well I haven’t had time to analyze things, but late breaking facts: Intel SSD 750 vs Samsung. The new Samsung M.2 will be x4 PCI Express with NVMe, they give a real run for the money for the Intel PCIe Express slot cards. I love the idea of a 2400MBps…

Well the portal may be dead, but they do have this Amerideal thing. You have to opt in but some incredible deals are: 10% off of Starbucks purchases which is incremental to the points you earn. 15% off of Sears and combining that with a click through Alaska Airlines of…