How to Ensure Your Mac is Working Properly

The Mac is a wonderful tool for both work and entertainment, but how do you know that your Mac is performing at its optimum? Do you know if your hard drive is about to fail? Fortunately, you can take a few simple measures to find out how your Mac is performing, and ensure that the hardware is working properly. Continue reading to learn more.

Checking the Hard Drive

Hard drives, and even SSDs, are susceptible to failure. You never know when a drive will fail, but when it does, you’ll definitely feel the effects of it. You should always have a good backup of your Mac’s drive by using either Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the drive. Having a good backup will ensure that when your drive does fail, you’ll be back up and running in no time.

The majority of drives include a feature called S.M.A.R.T. (or Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology). By checking on the S.M.A.R.T. status of the drive, you will be alerted to potential upcoming drive failures.

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PatientPoint and Cornerstone Working Together on Patient Engagement

Six Things Hospitals Need to Know About Supporting the Adoption of Smartphones Pagers have been an essential part of healthcare communications for a long time due to their ability to provide reliable communications at a low cost. When pagers emerged on the healthcare scene, they fundamentally changed the way doctors, nurses, and administrators could be notified that... DOWNLOAD NOW

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No Siri, No iCloud, No Dropbox? Working at IBM Must Be Horrible

strategy for its employees back in 2010, but judging from an interview with the company’s chief information officer, you won’t be able to actually do much with them while there.

Technology Review has published a fascinating look at IBM and how their IT management works. After adopting a

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Even with Apple Majority Vote, RIM, Motorola Working on Nano-SIM Compromise

You wouldn’t think so much drama and hand-wringing goes into the creation of something as simple as a SIM card, but where international standards are concerned, compromises must be made. Research in Motion and Motorola have done just that with Apple’s proposed nano-SIM design, which appears to have the majority of votes already.

The Verge has filed an update on the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) search for a new nano-SIM standard to replace the current micro-SIM used in Apple’s iPhone 4 and 4S, as well as other popular handsets such as the Nokia Lumia 900.

While ETSI members have already been quietly voting on the future of the SIM card this month, a competing standard proposed by Nokia, Research in Motion and Motorola persists. That is causing some concern among members that two different standards could emerge, much like the VHS and Betamax situation during the heyday of home video.

To appease ETSI members, Motorola and RIM have gone back to the drawing board to find a compromise

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inPulse Working on Pebble Smartwatch for Android and Apple OS

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