23.12.2013 15:50 Uhr, Quelle: Macworld UK

Giving the gift of yourself

For many of us, it's the time of year when families and friends gather to celebrate the holidays, renew old bonds, and give gifts. While there's absolutely nothing wrong with a gift in physical form, sometimes the best present is lending someone a helping hand. Here at Mac 911, I've established something of a tradition of providing my technical expertise to those I care for. If you're of a like mind, I'd like to make a few suggestions.Save those memoriesAs always, I start with one of the most helpful things you can do--provide the target of your generosity with a backup of their most important data. Ideally you'd give them a hard drive of at least double the size of their startup volume, connect it, and configure Time Machine to work with it. If a hard drive isn't within your budget, consider picking up a hunk of removable flash-memory storage and copying their most important documents to it. (In most cases this means irreplaceable files like pictures of the grandkids.) If th

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