On the Mac there is no “My Computer” Button by default. But as Blogger Dave Taylor describes you can make one for yourself if you really miss it. See his post on the matter below.

Do you need more room on your hard drive?
Do you need to have every language under the sun saved on your mac?

Well i do need more room and don’t want to know have any other language, other than English, on my mac.

There is an application that is open source and free that can help you to get this done. Its called Monolingual. It will give you a GUI that helps you removing the languages that you don’t need. When you …

The trick to being a fast and productive on a Mac is the keyboard short cuts. This is something worth checking out, go to the Systems Preferences pane in the apple menu. Select the keyboard and mouse area, them to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. You will find a list of the shortcuts available to you. You should look this list over. Below I have given a short list of shortcuts proven to help keep your hands off the keyboard.

While reading some of the bloggs today i cam across this tip for you. Use your Web hosting companys hard drive as an off-site backup stroage center. http://www.tuaw.com/2007/04/02/backup-your-mac-to-dreamhost/

I have a few other ideas about this but will post them seperatly.

UPDATE:
Today on Lifehacker.com they did a reviw of some very good (and some free) back up utilites. This is very worthy of a look.

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