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From Bashful to iPad

By on November 9, 2010 in History, iPad

A great writeup on the his­tory of tablet com­put­ing at Apple, from 1983’s ‘bash­ful’ exper­i­ment: to the cur­rent iPad we know and love.

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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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Hawk Wings Flies Again

Hawk Wings Flies Again

By on June 23, 2009 in Customizing, Mail.app, Tweaks

HawkWing.net is a great blog for find­ing tips, tricks and fixes for Mail.app — the default email client on a Mac. The site was dor­mant for awhile, but recently woke up and has resumed post­ing. Inter­est­ing side note, it’s run by Tim Gaden who is Dean of the The­o­log­i­cal School , Col­lege Chap­lain and Stew­art Lecturer […]

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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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Speeding Up a Slow Mac

By on January 12, 2009 in iBook, Tweaks

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 […]

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Customize About This Mac

By on November 29, 2008 in Customizing, Tweaks

Cus­tomiza­tion of your Mac is one of the best ways to bring your per­son­al­ity to your Mac. And what bet­ter place for us to start talk­ing about cus­tomiza­tion than with the About This Mac screen. Now some of you might not even know where to find this screen. So to begin click on the Apple […]

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Microsoft Publisher for Mac

By on November 25, 2008 in Conversion, Microsoft, Software, Switcher

Melissa asks: Do you know if there’s a Microsoft Pub­lisher ver­sion for mac? i know they have office.…(working on a newslet­ter that’s done in pub­lisher, for now any­way, but I have my mac) Unfor­tu­nately there isn’t any easy way to con­vert a Microsoft Pub­lisher file to some­thing that you can edit on your Mac. You can […]

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