Bigwoofs Technology

Hard drive failures

I’ve seen an uptick in hard drive failures recently. It’s important to remember that the weakest link in a computer is often the hard drive. It’s the only constantly moving part (unless you have a solid state drive), and the most fragile.

Please do yourself a favor: spend some money on an external drive, and do regular backups, at least once a week. If you have a Mac running OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or later, it’s as simple as plugging in the drive and letting Time Machine do the backup automatically. The money and effort involved are a far better value than the alternatives should your drive or computer fail!

Kachemacs Mac User Group membership benefit

I’m offering a $20/hour discount on my services to paid members of the Kachemacs Mac User Group. We meet once a month in the Homer Public Library for 2 hours, and cover a range of interesting topics throughout the year. The membership fee is $30/year. Please see the membership page on the group’s site for more information or to sign up.

Due to the steep discount, some restrictions apply.

1. The discount only applies to home computers. Businesses wishing to gain a discount will need to contact the group for sponsorship options.
2. Only Macintosh computers are covered.
3. Appointments must be made at least a day in advance.

Event: Free Macintosh Support

There will be a free Macintosh support session at the Homer Public Library on the 21st of March. Sponsored by the Kachemacs Mac User Group, we will be in one of the small rooms on the north side of the building. Come with your questions and/or your laptops!

What: Free Mac Support
Where: The Homer Public Library
When: Saturday, March 21, from 10am to 2pm

Click on the event button to the left to download a calendar reminder!

Upcoming events sidebar added

I’ve put nice big calendar buttons over on the left sidebar, detailing upcoming events that I will be a part of. If you click on an event, your browser will download an .ics file to import into your calendaring program, and the meeting time and location information will be automatically added.

New Bigwoofs Technology site goes live!

Welcome to my new Tech site! I’m hoping this more dynamic version of my business site will generate more visibility, and give me a place to put my tech-related information. I’m hosting a few how-to posts over on my personal site, and this would be a more appropriate place for them in the future.

I want to use this techblog to host some product reviews, support advice, and other techie stuff. I may soon also branch out into podcasting, which will be new and exciting (for me).

I’m still tweaking the site to look exactly how I want, so please excuse any weirdness you may see.