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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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Great Deal on Learning to Switch to Mac

By on January 28, 2009 in Basic, Conversion, Switcher, Video

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 […]

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How safe are your passwords?

By on December 10, 2008 in Basic, Software

If you are like many peo­ple online you are prob­a­bly using Mozilla’s Fire­fox as your web browser of choice. If you aren’t using Fire­fox then this post won’t directly related to you. How­ever if you are… read on. Do you save pass­words to fre­quently vis­ited web­sites in Fire­fox with this dia­logue drop down menu? If so, do […]

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PDF Viewing for Firefox 3

By on November 13, 2008 in Basic, Configuration, Internet, Tweaks

I really like Fire­fox 3 and have always used it as my default web browser on both the Mac and PC plat­form. How­ever, the way that Fire­fox han­dles PDF files is some what of an annoy­ance. If you are like me you too will find it rather odd then that when in Fire­fox and you […]

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Keep Your Computer Awake!

Keep Your Computer Awake!

By on November 3, 2008 in Basic, Mac, Tweaks

I love show­ing my friends YouTube videos when they come to my place, but I hate shak­ing that mouse to keep the screen from dim­ming. Some­times in protest I turn the screen/power sav­ing off, but then I for­get to turn them back on. Headache!!!So I finally got sick of this and installed a slick little […]

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Are you stuck?

By on September 22, 2008 in Basic, Mac, Tip

Kendra asks,“How do I eject a CD or DVD on my Mac when press­ing the eject but­ton doesn’t work?“This is a great ques­tion that I myself had to search apple sup­port for the answer when I first had this prob­lem on my first mac. Espe­cially when you think that a stuck disc is going to […]

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Mac Tip of the Day: Expose and Aluminum Keyboard

By on September 11, 2008 in Basic, Mac, Tip

If you have been a mac user for long enough time you will know all about the Expose fea­ture. If not then here is a quick review.…Expose allows you to quickly do the fol­low­ing:See All the win­dows you have open,Push all win­dows to the side to quickly view just your desk­top,See just win­dows from the […]

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