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How To Preserve Your Family’s Legacy Stories (Like a Pro!)

How To Preserve Your Family’s Legacy Stories (Like a Pro!)

Genealogy is quite popular right now. Here in the United States, a huge melting pot, people want to know where they came from. And luckily it’s a pretty simple process. With genealogy, you carry part of your history in your DNA, so it’s always with you.

Family trees are another way people like to track their information. Many people enjoy creating detailed family trees to trace the names and locations of their ancestors. This information can be traced through public records.

However, what about the story of WHY your ancestors came to be living in the United States. Not HOW. Not WHEN. Not WHERE they came from. But WHY was the decision made? Some people may be lucky to have that recorded somewhere, but for the most part, family legacy stories have no long term storage option, other than occasionally being repeated at Sunday dinners.

Bad MacBook Air Hard Drive? Fix it Yourself!

Bad MacBook Air Hard Drive? Fix it Yourself!

MacBook Air Laptops Have Faulty Hard Drives

Obviously Apple doesn't want to share that with you, but as I was researching how to fix an Early 2014 MacBook Air, I came across quite a few people with the exact same issue---the hard drive crapped out on them. The issue with the particular computer I was working on involved the hard drive not being recognized during start-up. You had to restart it about 12 times before the system would recognize the hard drive and actually start up. It was frustrating to say the least.

Turn Your MacBook Pro (Mid-2012) into a Super Machine

Turn Your MacBook Pro (Mid-2012) into a Super Machine

This last week we supercharged our our Macbook Pro (Mid-2012) and seriously could not be more pleased. It took a total of about 35 minutes to swap the old hard drive with a Sandisk Solid State Drive, add in more Crucial RAM to max it out, and swap the optical disc drive with a caddy that holds the old hard drive.