A great new Mac blog has started up that typ­i­cally reviews new/old Mac appli­ca­tions, but has added a tuto­r­ial for Garage­band ’09 that would be worth check­ing out if you’re inter­ested in start­ing your own dig­i­tal band:

Get­ting Started with Garage­band ’09

• Mac­world 2009 Keynote
  Posted on Tues­day, Jan­u­ary 6th, 2009 in Hard­ware — Com­ments: (2)
  Update: Speech is over. New ver­sions of iLife and iWork (sites not updated cur­rently), updated 17″ Mac­Book Pro and the news that the iTunes music store is going com­pletely DRM free by the end of this quar­ter, as well as vari­able pric­ing on songs (no more $0.99 only, now the song price will range from $0.69 to $1.29 a song). Apple’s got a big keynote speech today in San Fran­cisco where they’ll be announc­ing new software/hardware to the world.
• Speed­ing Up a Slow Mac
  Posted on Mon­day, Jan­u­ary 12th, 2009 in iBook — Com­ments: (2)
  Kevin writes:I have a iBook G4 — 1.33 GHz — 512 MB RAM. It’s run­ning really slow. Do you have any “quick fixes”? I was look­ing on the inter­net and saw that “anacron” was sug­gested. Do you guys have any sug­ges­tions. I don’t really want to buy a new mac (yet) so any sug­ges­tions would be appre­ci­ated. thanks.There’s two areas you can look at when try­ing to speed up a com­puter: hard­ware or software.
• Back­ing Up
  Posted on Wednes­day, Jan­u­ary 21st, 2009 in Hard­ware — Com­ments: (1)
  Vanessa asks: I really need to get some back up Hard Drive. I’ve heard I need at least 3 HDDs. is that what I use? Also what brand or mem­ory space do you think is required?On a mac the best back up is a exter­nal firewire HD and then set­ting up time machine. Time machine is Leopard’s built in backup solu­tion and you will need to have Mac OS 10.5 installed to use it.
• Happy 25th Birth­day Mac
  Posted on Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 24th, 2009 in Hard­ware — Com­ments: (0)
• Great Deal on Learn­ing to Switch to Mac
  Posted on Wednes­day, Jan­u­ary 28th, 2009 in Basic — Com­ments: (0)
  MacZot.com is a site that fea­tures daily deals related to Mac soft­ware. Today they’ve got a deal going on what looks to be a great lit­tle tutorial/manual for switch­ing from Win­dows to a Mac: mac­ZOT » “It’s About Time to Learn the Switch to Mac.”It’s About Time to Learn the Switch to Mac®” is the most inno­v­a­tive learn­ing tool ever cre­ated for “switchers.