Review: LaCie Portable DVD±RW with LightScribe, Design by Sam Hecht

LaCie’s Portable DVD±RW with LightScribe, Design by Sam Hecht, is one product where style and weight trumped speed and (to a certain extent) sturdiness. Even so, it’s the portable DVD burner of choice for MacBook Air owners.

Intel shows off solid-state drive road mapAt its developers forum, Intel outlined the roadmap for its upcoming line of solid-state drives aimed at replacing hard drives in some computers.
Intel offers USB 3.0 draft specIntel promises USB 3.0 will operate at ten times the speed of current USB technology.

Review: LaCie Portable DVD±RW with LightScribe, Design by Sam Hecht
LaCie’s Portable DVD±RW with LightScribe, Design by Sam Hecht, is one product where style and weight trumped speed and (to a certain extent) sturdiness. Even so, it’s the portable DVD burner of choice for MacBook Air owners.
Review: LaCie Hard Disk Designed by Neil Poulton 1TB
The LaCie Hard Disk Designed by Neil Poulton offers multiple connection options, zippy eSATA performance and a striking design.
Bus-powered hard drives and older Mac laptops
Macworld Lab tests a plethora of older Macs to see how they handle bus-powered USB portable hard drives.
Review: My Passport Studio portable hard drive
The My Passport Studio is a portable hard drive that’s bus powered—it doesn’t include a power adapter. The drive ships in a Mac-friendly format, and works with Leopard’s built-in disk back up utility, Time Machine.
TimeMachineEditor 1.3
If you’ve ever wanted to change Time Machine’s schedule, Time Software's TimeMachineEditor lets you do just that. You can tweak the interval so that Time Machine backs up every, say, four hours, or you can choose to have Time Machine back up once a day, once a week, or once a month.

Bugs & Fixes: Vanishing contacts and calendar events
Ted Landau tells you what to do if contacts and calendar events synced via MobileMe suddenly disappear from your iPhone. And he returns to smart flash drives, the subject of last week’s column.
Bugs & Fixes: The trouble with USB ‘smart’ flash drives
Ted Landau discovers that the new generation of U3 smart drives can cause a lot of headaches for Mac users.
In case of emergency
In a summer full of natural disasters how prepared are you (and your Mac) for unanticipated emergencies?
Bugs & Fixes: Time Machine holdups
Ted Landau’s Time Machine backups began sticking at the “Preparing…” stage of starting a backup. So he did some digging to find out what was causing the problem.
Time Machine tips and troubleshooting
Some people will be able to set up and turn on Time Machine with a single click. But you may need to do some manual configuration to get it to work the way you want. You should also be aware of some quirks in Time Machine’s operation, particularly when restoring data.