MGG 542: Stick This In Your Drive & Partition It

Dave's back from Florida, John's back is feeling fine, and your two favorite geeks answer questions and discuss all sorts of topics that YOU want to hear about. Backups, restoration, nefarious installers and more.

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Stuff mentioned:

• Carbon Copy Cloner (5:19)
• How to configure Calendar’s Email and Open File alerts
• Alice in Wonderland (1951)
• THX 1138 (1971)
• Lingon
• Disk Utility 12.x: Partition a disk (14:59)
• Drive Genius 4
• iPartition
• TechTool Pro (36:40)
• SpeedyNet (38:00)
• Video Drive
• TuneSpan
• DesktopUtility (40:38)
• Forklift (42:24)
• AppleTV with Plex (43:33)
• Your Samsung TV is eavesdropping on your private conversations
• Citizenfour (2014)
• Whiplash (2014)
• Apple’s OS X Gatekeeper Leaves Hole Open for Malware and Adware – Here’s How to Protect Your Mac (46:27)
• Pacifist
• Infuse (56:27)
• OS X: About FileVault 2 (1:04:53)
• Is TrueCrypt Safe to Use Yet?
• OS X: Macs that support authenticated restart with FileVault
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