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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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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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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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Is the iPhone / iPod touch 3.0 Software Update Worth It?

By on June 22, 2009 in iPhone, Software

Chances are you’ve seen the news about the iPhone 3.0 Soft­ware Update that Apple recently released. For iPhone users, it’s a free upgrade so it isn’t really a ques­tion of whether it would be worth it — free is free! For iPod touch users though, due to the way Apple does their books on the iPod […]

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MacHeist 3 Bundle Revealed

By on March 25, 2009 in Promos, Software

The lat­est MacHeist bun­dle has been revealed and it’s quite a good one this year. For those not aware, the MacHeist bun­dles are a col­lec­tion of var­i­ous Mac apps sold together in one pack­age for a lower price than buy­ing all the indi­vid­ual pro­grams sep­a­rately. As more peo­ple buy the bun­dle, more apps are added to […]

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Getting Started With Garageband ’09

By on February 23, 2009 in Garageband, iLife

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

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