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MAC FRIDAY @ CONNECTING POINT | Nov. 23rd, 2012

Forget Black Friday—that’s so old school. At Connecting Point, it’s Mac Friday.

As your local Apple Specialist, Connecting Point is the best place for great Apple gifts. And we’ve got some amazing deals, starting from the time we open our doors on Friday morning. Click for complete details.

Holiday Hours | Thanksgiving

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Both Connecting Point locations will be closed Thursday, November 22nd, in observance of Turkey Day… er, Thanksgiving. Other than that, our hours will remain the same as usual for the entire holiday weekend.

Be safe, stay warm, keep dry, feast and enjoy. And don’t forget to watch this space for news of our “Black Friday” promotion.

Bringing back iDisk (sort of)

With the introduction of iCloud at the release of OS X Lion, Apple discontinued iDisk, which was a part of the MobileMe suite of Internet services they had been offering.

iDisk gave you a “folder in the cloud,” a place to save documents for retrieval from any Mac, anywhere. It was simple to use—it was actually a menu selection in the Finder—and eminently useful. Those of us who used iDisk really miss it.

There is a workaround—and it’s both simple and free. There exists a hidden folder called Library, which contains another folder (“Mobile Documents”) with most of the functionality of iDisk. Here’s how to access it. (more…)