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THE LIMAC FORUM/MAY 2009

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says 480 Kbps transfer rate, don’t believe it. That is just the max

the USB 2.0 spec calls for. The fastest actual speeds are like 36

Mbps. Anyway, mount your flash drive and format it Mac OS

Extended Journaled with Disk Utility and install Mac OS 10.5

onto it. Boot from the flash drive (perhaps with the option key

held down in the future) and update to 10.5.6 and install your

selection of utilities. Remove stuff from the drive you don’t

need and put what you do need into the Dock. Besides Disk

Utility and System Profiler from Apple, I’d suggest TechTool

Pro, Drive Genius and Data Rescue II, and DiskWarrior. If you

like them, maybe iDefrag and iPartition. The problem comes

when real life interferes, the you-know-what hits the fan and

your hard drive is in bad shape and the repair utilities can’t

repair the drive and only offer to recover some data. You need

lots of space to recover to. For this reason, I stopped using the

flash drive and use a older USB and FireWire portable 60 GB

hard drive. I formatted/partitioned the drive on a PPC Power

Mac G5 with a Apple Partition Table and of course Mac OS

extended format volume so it can boot Power PC and Intel

machines and as I installed Leopard on the drive to support

the newer batch, this drive won’t boot up anything slower than

a 867 MHz G4. I got an even older drive for the older beasts

besides my CDs. Of course the flash drive is more portable, but

I always carry a ton of stuff anyway. So if you stick with the

flash drive or if you use a portable drive, don’t forget to update

the software on the drive when a new release comes out. One

other thing I should mention, having important software on

a FireWire or USB drive avoids using the optical drive, which

could be faulty on a Mac, so having this can make the differ-

ence when the computer is old and not all it’s parts are working

anymore.

I have a external hard drive with multiple ports on the back

and I see two FireWire ports on it. Does that mean I can con-

nect the drive to two different computers at once? What is the

benefit of being able to daisy-chain drives? Just to save a port?

■ No. You could easy fry the FireWire ports on the computers

if you tried. The reason there are two FireWire ports is so you

can daisy-chain a second drive onto the first which then leads

back to the one computer. Many Macs have only one FireWire

port, particularly the small form factor types, so yes Apple is

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Tweakers: A Lot of Sound

in a Little Package

a review by Tom Piper

Whenever I travel, at least three iPods and an iPhone

go with me for audio and visual education and enter-

tainment. Several sets of earphones accompany me,

but I would also prefer a set of speakers for my room.

A delightful and colorful unit caught my attention at

Macworld that were exactly what I needed.

The Tweakers Mini-Boom Speakers from Grandmax are

known as Pull-n-Play because of their cute and very func-

tional retractable connecting cords. The ad says “pocket

size speakers with room-filling sound” which is a big

promise. With a built-in 430mA rechargeable lithium ion

battery, a frequency-tuned amplifier, and a pair of twist-

and-popup 2” speakers, it does deliver crystal clear sound,

even if the bass is a bit muted (a lot to expect of some-

thing so small).

I plugged it into my 8GB iPod nano at the office, and

played music for six hours without depleting the Tweakers

battery. It was easy to setup by pulling out the mini-USB

retractable cable and plugging it into the other speaker

(this is also the charger cable when a mini-to-fullsize USB

adapter is plugged into it, which can be plugged into a

computer or iPod charger). Then the 1/8” stereo plug was

attached to my iPod (or iPhone or MacBook Pro), and a

twist on the top of each speaker popped it up for a better

sound chamber. Finally, a press of the on/off switch on

the side of the speaker turns it on, and a separate volume

wheel adds more volume in addition to your sound source.

Disassembly is even easier with the retractable cables,

and magnetic bases to conveniently hold them together

(yes, these same magnetics could be used to attach them

to any iron-based metal).

Update: See the video of how these work by appleJAC

Member, Steve Mays:

from

http://ugab.typepad.com/

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