We get alot of inquiries about best practice when it comes to batteries. Here are the official answers! Apple uses rechargeable lithium-ion batteries in all of their portable technologies. Lithium-ion is pretty much the industry standard. Why is this used? Lithium is a light metal, but most importantly : “You can…recharge a lithium-ion polymer battery [...]

The answers to many of the most common questions I’m asked about computers can become much clearer with a quick description of how a computer actually works. I don’t want to turn this into an encyclopedic breakdown of every part in a computer, but I want to provide an approximated, simplified explanation of what each [...]

The iTunes ‘source’ menu is located on the left side of the iTunes window. This column is found on the left side throughout most of Apple’s native programs, such as iPhoto, iCal, Address Book, and Mail. This ‘source’ list contains all of the different locations from which the program in question can access the files [...]

Question: If I burn the CD, can new files not be copied onto it?  I burned one just to test it, but when I tried to copy another file onto it, it said that it couldn’t be altered. Answer: CDs and DVDs are permanent. Once you burn a CD or a DVD you cannot delete [...]

An external hard drive is the most common way to back up your computer. Anybody who’s ever had their hard drive crash and lost all of their data is typically interested in ensuring that it never happens again. This is why external backups to ensure data redundancy are a keystone of savvy computer use. In [...]