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Wanna Migrate your entire PC to your new Mac? That’s right, Put the entirety of that Big Bulky Dell/Compaq into a small file that you can open anytime on your Mac. Here’s how: 

Go to this page and download the Parallels Transporter for Windows

http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/features/transporter/

The direct link to the download is this: Download Parallels Transporter 3.0 (build 1456) for Microsoft Windows

Once you’ve downloaded the program to your windows computer, open it, install it and run it.

It’s straightforward and easy, if you need help with any of the questions it asks you just give me a call!

Brendan 415-871-9683

Whenever you next find yourself penning an email in Mail, a script in Textedit, or a message in iChat, try tapping the “Escape” key halfway through the word you’re typing, you’ll see a drop down list of words that OS X has fetched from the Oxford American Dictionary, selecting one of these and tapping the “Return” key will save you a few seconds and also ensure your spelling is correct.

This technique will even expand your vocabulary and may win you your next game of Scrabble.

The Macintosh line of computers, has, for many years implemented quick, simple and powerful networking technologies years ahead of other computer makers.This post is about the dual gigabit ethernet ports that have been standard on the Power Mac G5 and the recent Mac Pro computers.  Apple led the field in 2000 by shipping its PowerBook and PowerMac computers with Gigabit Ethernet.

 Initially, gigabit Ethernet was deployed in high-capacity backbone network links (for instance, on a high-capacity campus network). In 2000, Apple’s Power Mac G4 and PowerBook G4 were the first mass produced personal computers featuring the 1000BASE-T connection.^[1] It quickly became a built-in feature in many other computers.

But Apple innovated again when they shipped the Power Mac G5 in June 2003 with Dual Gigabit Ethernet Ports, praise reigned on the Power Mac for this:

 The Power Mac G5 supports up to 16GB of 533-MHz DDR2 SDRAM and now includes two Gigabit Ethernet ports. Multiple Gigabit Ethernet ports are well suited for users who plan to utilize their Power Mac in an Xsan environment — that’s Apple’s storage-area network technology for high-performance computing. 

But, what can these dual ports do for us in our day to day computing? Well, simply put, your Power Mac can connect to your Router through both of these ports simultaneously and instantly double your network bandwidth.Many operating systems including Unix, Linux and Windows XP require intelligent configuring on the part of the user or the “System Administrator”, on the Mac, however, It Just Works.This trick will work for you even on your laptop, where a windows laptop would become confused with a WiFi connection as well as a Wired Gigabit connection, the MacBook will happily use both network connections simultaneously to get the most efficiency from your home router. Remember, the greatest home routers are the Apple Airport line of routers available from the Apple Store, Amazon or AuburnCom, your San Francisco Mac Evangelist!  

An Apple certified evangelist is awaiting your phone call to help you get the most out of your Mac. Certified by Apple in OS X support, I provide consultations on Panther, Jaguar, Tiger and the amazing New Leopard operating system. Would you like it to do more for you? automate your calendar events, simplify your music collection, handle the party music for your elaborate home audio system.

or lets talk about video, I evangelise the Apple TV, apple’s great product that brings your entire iTunes library to your living room, your bedroom, in fact any rooms in fact you’d like to listen to the large music library that you’ve spent so much time building, wouldn’t it be great to play all that music from the comfort of your living room couch? Call for a example of it’s usefulness.

Mac Hardware, software and Networking is all under our microscope, Apple has certified us as experts and we are so happy to bring this expertise to you.

AuburnCom is a registered San Francisco company with clients from Marin county, Sausalito, Yerba Buena island, the city of San Francisco and as far south as Daly City, we make house calls to the East Bay, and ship replacement and upgrade superdrives to faraway states including Texas and Massachusettes.

Call us on 415-871-9683, email brendan@auburncom.com or visit http://www.auburncom.com to find out more about us or how we can make things better and easier for you.

A common question that comes up: What are the advantages or disadvantages of buying my Mac from CompUSA or Best Buy (Who have impressive Apple stores inside them nowadays)?

 Our brief answer: Compusa match Apples prices dollar for dollar as I recall, and Apple provides the same One year Warranty on the models that Compusa sells, I can’t see reasons to not by from Compusa other than the very pleasant shopping experience that the Apple Store provides!One point to note is that I believe Apple may now offer very favorable financing too (perhaps better than the Compusa card) but thats not a topic I’m currently very up to date on.A couple of points on why purchasing at the Apple Store has benefits; 

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  • Apple Store will have the very freshest models from Cupertino
  • The Apple Store provides 14 Day Full Money Back Refunds even with the Computer used, as long as it has all its packaging