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President's Corner-August 2018

President's Corner-August 2018

 

Dick Dalton presents Tom Piper on KOPN radio

by Dick Dalton with Tom Piper.

July 11, 2018, was my conversation with Tom Piper. We met at an appleJAC meeting in the early 80s and recently started seeing each other at Capital City Productions. Tom's experiences as a director at DHSS, a MacQuest consultant (macquest.com), a photographer, and much more made it fun and informative.

You can listen in by clicking on . . . 

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"Take Control of Your Digital Storage“ for your MUG

by Joe Kissell
Publisher, Take Control Books

Dear MUG member,
 
We have a new book to tell you about today, and I’m especially excited about it because it’s all about solving problems I know many of you are having. Quite a few people have expressed an interest in a book that will help them deal with the many questions involved in storing their data and managing their disks—concerns that have become more frequent as the volume of data we have (photos, videos, music, and more) has grown. I’m pleased to announce that our good friend Jeff Carlson has written a book that addresses these questions, and it’s available now: Take Control of Your Digital Storage.

I can’t tell you how many email messages I’ve received that involve storage puzzles. People want to know if they should use a NAS (network-attached storage) device or not, and if so, what they can do with it. How to partition and format a disk. Whether a RAID (redundant array of independent disks) is a good idea. How to decide whether something should be stored on their Mac, on an external or network disk, or in the cloud. How to make sense of Apple’s new APFS filesystem. What really happens when they use iCloud’s Optimized Mac Storage feature. And so on. Jeff and I decided it was time to research all these questions and more, and the result is Take Control of Your Digital Storage.

Here’s just a taste of the topics Jeff covers in this Mac-specific book:

• How to choose a new (internal or external) hard drive, SSD, or hybrid drive
• Determining how much storage space you need
• What you need to know about filesystems, including Apple's new APFS filesystem
• Formatting and partitioning disks using Disk Utility
• How to repair a misbehaving disk
• How to create and use disk images
• What a personal cloud is and why you might consider using one
• Strategies for freeing up extra disk space
• Selecting and using a NAS with your Mac (with extra information on using it to store your digital photos)
• The various kinds of RAID setups, why you might want one, and how to set it up
• The differences between volumes and partitions (and, for APFS, containers)
• Why and how to encrypt a disk using FileVault or the Finder
• Using iCloud Drive’s Optimized Mac Storage feature

And, there’s much more packed into this 124-page ebook. If you’re frustrated because you’re running low on disk space…confused about what storage options you should use…struggling with questions about volumes, formats, or partitions…trying to wrap your head around a new NAS…or just wanting to have a better understanding of how storage works on a Mac, you need this book!

Buy Take Control of Your Digital Storage for $9.09 with your MUG discount OR

Get more information about this book

I hope you’re as enthusiastic about this book as I am! I’ve been wanting a title like this in our catalog for a long time, and I couldn’t be happier that it’s finally here. Get to the bottom of your Mac storage issues today!