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While Mac OS X Lion automatically installs a recovery partition on your hard drive for reinstalling the operating system or restoring from a Time Machine backup, that’s no help if your hard drive completely fails. However, Apple has a tool available that will allow you to create another recovery drive using a USB drive instead. It’s very simple; just follow these steps.What you’ll...

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New Mac owners don’t often know things about their computers that might prove otherwise helpful, like exactly what model they have (is your iMac the early-, mid- or late-2009 version, for example) or how much RAM they have installed. Luckily, OS X Lion organizes that info in a slightly better way, and there are also web and app-based tools to help learn all...

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Launchpad, the new app launcher in Mac OS X Lion, can be useful for hunting down apps you don’t use very often. However, sometimes it can feel bloated and difficult to navigate. Here are a few tips to make Launchpad a bit easier to work with.Skip the click-and-holdMac App Store apps that are in your Launchpad can be moved by clicking and holding...

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