OS X Primer for New Mac Owners

By on January 4, 2010 in Basic, Conversion, Switcher, Video

Merry Christ­mas new Mac own­ers! And a spe­cial extra treat for any of you that are switch­ing from Win­dows to your first Mac. Don McAl­lis­ter at Screen­cast­sOn­line has made a free episode of his pop­u­lar video pod­cast avail­able specif­i­cally for switch­ers. Click here to check it out. And if you find it inter­est­ing and helpful, […]

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Is MobileMe (.Me, .Mac, etc.) Worth It?

By on September 30, 2009 in MobileMe, Switcher

My MobileMe sub­scrip­tion recently expired (Full Dis­clo­sure: I had received my account as part of a pro­gram Apple offers to resellers as part of their train­ing web­site. I no longer work as a reseller) and so I’ve had to decide whether to renew my sub­scrip­tion or not. It’s $99USD/$109CDN per year for a MobileMe account. […]

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No Genius Mixes After Updating to iTunes 9

By on September 10, 2009 in iTunes

I was stumped by this. One of the new fea­tures of iTunes 9 is Genius Mixes: Meet Genius Mixes. This new fea­ture searches your iTunes library, finds songs that go great together, and cre­ates mul­ti­ple mixes you’ll love. All auto­mat­i­cally. These mixes are like chan­nels pro­grammed entirely with your music. You may dis­cover songs you […]

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Snow Leopard Up to Date Program

By on August 27, 2009 in Mac OS, Promos

If you bought a Mac on or after June 8, 2009 and before Decem­ber 26, 2009 that doesn’t have Snow Leop­ard (Mac OS 10.6) on it or included in the box, you can send in a claim form and get a copy of Snow Leop­ard for $9.95USD. Click here for full pro­gram details or on […]

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iWork Trial Temporary Workaround

By on June 25, 2009 in iWork, Software

A spe­cial guest post­ing from Scott Theede: Have you ever been exper­i­ment­ing with iWork (Pages, Num­bers, Keynote) and your free trial has run out leav­ing you unable to make any changes to your doc­u­ments? There’s a quick way to get around that restric­tion, say if you needed to have a fully func­tional keynote for an […]

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Cleaning/Replacing a MacBook Key

By on June 24, 2009 in Hardware, Macbook

If, for some rea­son, you decide to pull a key off your Mac­Book (or in my case, Black­Book) key­board and can’t fig­ure out how to put it back on, there’s a great lit­tle walk-thru on flickr. Here’s a link to the set or you can watch the slideshow below. By the way, there’s plenty of […]

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Keychain cannot be found message after upgrade install

By on June 24, 2009 in Software

If you’ve recently upgraded to Flash Player ver­sion 10, you may be see­ing some­thing sim­i­lar to this: Key­chain “name” can­not be found to store “sam­pleitem“ Your key­chain may have been renamed, deleted, or it’s on a unmounted vol­ume. You can then click Can­cel or Reset To Defaults. The alert may appear again. Here’s a link to […]

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