Great show even with the audio issues! Gotta love Mac Maintenance Sunday.

Tom

Great show – and I bought Chronosync as a result (fantastic little app, btw!)

USB 2.0 boot update: Everything I have read states you should be able to boot an Intel based Mac from a USB 2.0 drive as long as it is formatted using the GUID partition table. The reason why I say should is because it looks like it may be dependent on the version of the drive controller chips in the external drives themselves. I am trying to confirm this. I also have a Western Digital USB 2.0 drive at home that I want to test with my MacBook.

-Steve

If somebody want to do a full backup of a drive at no cost, you can do it with Apple disk Utility, you startup disk utility, you can do this with OS X running, but don’t do too much or it will fail, for example, surfing is fine. Ok so you go in the File menu, then select “New”, “Disk Image From Folder”, now you have to select the drive you want to backup, click “Image” and then select a destination different from your HD, say an external hard drive with enough space, give it a name and click “Save”, you can change the option at the bottom but I suggest not to change them. Then you will have a progress bar. Afterward you can double click that image if you want to restore something, you can also restore that file on any partition. You just use Disk Utility again, click the partition to restore to, and click “Image” on the partition tab, select your image previously done and drag the destination partition on the destination, then push “Restore” You should do that from the boot DVD for your Mac if you are restoring the boot partition.