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How to get started with OnLive Desktop for iPad

If you need to create or edit the occasional Word doc, Excel sheet, or PowerPoint presentation on your iPad, OnLive Desktop is a app that provides a virtual Windows 7 PC. The app is free, and it does not require any previous Microsoft purchases or licenses to use Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. With each free account comes 2GB of storage on OnLive's servers.

OnLive just released OnLive Desktop Plus, which adds Internet Explorer to the mix, along with priority access when tunneling into OnLive Desktop. The free account delivers access "as available," and I was occasionally denied access before I upgraded to the Plus account.… Read more

Max storage for Mac Mini

One of the drawbacks of Apple's smallest and cheapest desktop is the lack of hard drive space. Given its tiny chassis, the Mac Mini can hold but one hard drive, and the largest unit Apple offers for it is a relatively puny 160GB drive. For the past year, Iomega has been selling the 250GB MiniMax Drive, which looks just like the Mac Mini and can be nested with Apple's tiny desktop. The drive is particularly useful for home theater aficionados looking to use the Mac Mini as a living-room DVR repository. It doesn't take long to fill … Read more