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= Recent Articles and Reviews =
Guide to installing a SSD (Solid State HD) in a Mac Pro - Oliver sent an article w/photos of Installing a SSD (Solid State Drive) in a Mac Pro.
  
Review/Tests of 32GB MemoRight GT SSD vs Three 1TB SATA Hard drives - Oliver also sent performance test comparisons of his (very expensive) 32GB MemoRight GT SSD vs Three 1TB SATA Hard drives - (32GB MemoRight GT SSD vs 1TB Hitachi 7K1000, Samsung F1, WD Caviar GP).
  
CocoaModem and free Mac Amateur Radio Applications - (from a reader mail)

" Kok Chen, W7AY, has provided (imo) some very 'frosty' free programs for Apple computers and one of my favorites is cocoaModem.
Free Mac Amateur Radio Applications and cocoaModem
cocoaModem is a MacOS X application which implements modems
(modulator-demodulators) for some of the Amateur Radio digital modes.
cocoaModemĂs name is a reference to the MacOS X Cocoa framework that it uses. cocoaModem supports RTTY (AFSK), PSK31 (both BPSK and QPSK), PSK63, Hellschreiber, a two receiver RTTY interface and a contest interface.

Future plans include MFSK, FSK RTTY, CW, SSTV and support of the SoftRock-40 software defined radio.
Kok Chen's Home Page: http://homepage.mac.com/chen/
Reviews of cocoaModem:
http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/5663#70086
best2u, Curtis, N6ECT, ~@~
http://www.flyingsnail.com/AmateurRadio/ARPSN.html
http://www.flyingsnail.com/AmateurRadio/progresslog.html"

  
Leopard Back to My Mac Feature helps recover Stolen Mac - Several readers sent links to articles on how Leopard's "Back to my Mac" feature helped locate a stolen Mac. See Stolen Mac helps nab burglary suspects (cnet) and Girl Gets Stolen Mac Back With 'Back To My Mac' (informationweek). (NYTimes also has an article but it requires an acct/registration to view it.)
  
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= Friday's News Follows =

  

Feedback on CPU Upgraded Macs with OS X Leopard - Running late today after a series of bad storms here last night but have posted a page of replies to yesterday's post with Feedback on CPU Upgraded Macs with OS X Leopard. (As of this morning there were 18 replies, most positive.)
  
New Hitachi Travelstar 7K320 (320GB/7200rpm) Notebook drive - Phil wrote with a link to an Hitachi Press release on a new 320GB/7200rpm Travelstar 7K320 notebook drive (9.5mm high) they say has 12% higher performance and 22% lower power consumption than the previous model. According to a Register article yesterday the drive will sell for appx $220. (A little more than $80 higher than current 5400rpm 320GB notebook drives.)
  
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