160: Getting Ready for Mavericks

David and Katie talk about getting your Mac ready for OS X Mavericks.

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Links and Show Notes:

Links for this episode:

• Coyote catches Road Runner - YouTube
  
• Mac Roundtable Podcast » Tim Verpoorten
  
• Nosillacast
  Contact Allison:
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  • twitter.com/podfeet
• 5by5 | Back to Work #139: Tap Your Meat Stack
  How to decide whether a given thing goes on a calendar, a todo list, reference files, or an alarm. Great ninja stuff.
  
• Apple - OS X Mavericks - Do even more with new apps and features.
  
• Mavericks (location) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Mavericks is a surfing location in Northern California, USA. On June 10, 2013, at its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced that the latest version of its Mac operating system OS X (version 10.9) would be entitled Mavericks. Apple said their new operating software generations would be named after places in California that have inspired them.
  
• OS X 10.9 Mavericks System Requirements & List of Compatible Macs
  
• MacSparky Screencast - Magic Install Disk on Vimeo
  If you want to save a copy of the installer watch David's Screencast before upgrading.
  
• Lion DiskMaker
  
• Birkenstock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  In the United States, Birkenstock first became popular among young men and later on among flower children, a group traditionally associated with American liberalism.
  
• Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G SSD 2.5" Serial-ATA 9.5mm 6Gb/s Solid State Drive
  
• Drobo 5N | Drobo for Professionals
  
• DaisyDisk - Analyze disk usage and free up disk space on Mac
  
• CleanMyMac 2: The Best Clean Up Mac App. Clean My Mac for Free | Mac OS X
  
• Onyx Mac – Instant Download Onyx for Mac OS X
  
• PhotoSweeper - Fast and powerful duplicate photo cleaner for the Mac
  
• MacUpdate
  
• RoaringApps - Application compatibility and feature support for OS X and iOS
  
• AppleWorks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  AppleWorks refers to two different office suite products, both of which are now discontinued.
  
• Drive Genius
  
• DiskWarrior 4 - The Disk Utility for Mac Disk Repair, Mac Directory Repair, Mac Disk Recovery, Mac Data Recovery
  
• Mac Power Users 134: Mac Utilities
  
• MPU 043: Back to Backup (Live from Macworld 2011)
  
• Reginald Barclay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Lieutenant Reginald Endicott Barclay III, played by Dwight Schultz, is a recurring character in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. His cat was named Neelix.
  
• SuperDuper!
  
• Carbon Copy Cloner
  
• Mac Basics: Time Machine
  
• CrashPlan Backup Software
  
• How to Clean Install OS X Mountain Lion
  
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