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How to set up a new Mac securely or update an older machine

“When you get a new Mac, how can you make sure you’ve set it up to be as secure as possible?” Glenn Fleishman writes for Macworld.

“If you walk through a completely fresh installation process, Apple tries to guide you into making the most-secure choices among alternatives,” Fleishman writes, “but it’s probably the worst time to try to sort out the options available and make those…

Drive-cloning utilities: The best Mac apps for making a bootable backup

[cfsp key="adsense_336x280"]“Good backups are essential for every Mac user,” Joe Kissell writes for Macworld. “Tools such as Apple’s Time Machine, included as part of OS X, make it easy to store multiple versions of every file from your computer on an external drive or an AirPort Time Capsule. And if you want the security of off-site backups without having to physically move drives around, an…