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You should back up. Everyone knows this, and so few of us actually do it - much less to the level of having an offsite backup. Too much hard work! But what if it wasn't? Let's take a look at Backblaze, which bills itself as "the easiest online backup service".
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Last week was kind of a big week in Apple news. The new iPhone 5, all-new iTunes, a new iPod nano & iPod touch, new earpods & the new lightning connector all descended from the Cupertino labs. The 2-hour event was absolutely packed with news, both large and small.

Now we've all had time to digest exactly what went on, I thought I'd tap into our writers to make sense of it all. This weekend, I posed a question to our fleet of fine MacTalk writers; what did you make of last week's events? Turns out, everyone had quite a bit to say!

Here are 4 of the responses from yours truly, Athol 'MissionMan' Hill, Ben Johnston & Jared Zammit. Tomorrow, we'll have thoughts from Anthony, Pete, Jonathan Nalder & more!
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The first iPhone 5 GeekBench results have been revealed, and it should come as no surprise that the custom A6 SoC Apple are using has significant performance gains over the A5X found in the new iPad, a processor which has to push an insane number of pixels for acceptable graphical performance. In fact, ...

TWiT is a podcasting institution. From the story of inception to it’s more recent studio construction the TWiT network is a cornerstone amongst new media delivery and its production.

Recently on a trip to the US I was fortunate enough to be able to visit the TWiT studios (known as the “TWiT Brick House”) in Petaluma, California, taking a look at exactly how this podcasting juggernaut operated and get a peek behind the wizard’s (Leo Laporte), curtain. The great thing is anyone is allowed to go and visit, you don’t have to be a bumbling amateur tech journalist like ...

Now the iPhone 5 pre-order madness of the weekend has calmed down and shipping dates have slipped to 2-3 weeks, we can all take a few minutes to read John Gruber's thoughts and observations regarding the iPhone 5 event. We can all look back at the plastic back of the iPhone 3G/3GS and laugh, but the ...

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For App developers out there, registrations for Vodafone's App Aid close 9am this Monday.

The 48hr Hackathon will be held over next weekend, September 20th - 22nd, in Vodafone's North Sydney offices.

The Vodafone Foundation will make a $30,000 donation ...

Shortly after the iPhone event yesterday, Apple gave bloggers and technology journalists the opportunity to go hands-on, get a feel for the new form factor, and generally give the new iPhone 5 a good man-handling. Engadget took a few photos, as did the The Verge.

"The new iPad" ...

You've proably heard about LTE but never really gave a damn, but now that the iPhone has it, it suddenly matters. LTE is basically faster internets. Not only more bandwidth (i.e: a bigger pipe), but also superior latency. So even if your overall downloads don't happen faster, the time it takes to access things will be significantly faster. Once you taste LTE, you'll want it everywhere. It will probably be faster than your ...