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Switching to Mac 101

When I bought my first Mac sev­eral years ago, it took a while to fig­ure out how to do all the stuff I already knew how to do on my PC. While I am a techie, geek and Mac Addict and spent the time fig­ur­ing this stuff out, there’s no need for you to have […]

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Keep Your Computer Awake!

Keep Your Computer Awake!

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?

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

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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Mac Tip of the Day: Email attachments quickly

Mac Tip of the Day: Email attachments quickly

If you’re look­ing for a quick and easy way to send email attach­ments there is no faster way than by using Mail. We all know the stan­dard way. Open Mail…Select New Message…click onthe Attach­ment Paper Clip icon…fill out your email…and Send. There is actu­ally a much quicker way to do this. Just take theattach­ment you would […]

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Tip of the Day: Spotlight

Tip of the Day: Spotlight

How often do you use “Spot­light”? This is one of the biggest gems in Mac OS since its Tiger (10.4) intro­duc­tion. To acti­vate Spot­light, you can either click on the mag­ni­fy­ing glass on the top right of your screen, or use the key­board short­cut: com­mand + space­bar.Once you acti­vate Spot­light, type in what you want […]

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iChat Video

iChat Video

For those read­ers out there who are using a Mac, I hope you are using iChat. Long ago I got tired of all the junk MSN had to offer and since I started using iChat I won’t ever go back. How­ever, I recently had been hav­ing prob­lems get­ting a video chat going on my Macbook […]

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