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cnet.com Resources for Mac, iPod/iPhone users

July 10, 2009

cnet.com has resource pages for Mac users, iPhone and iPod users. You may find them useful, so here’s a description, from my personal point of view. Apple Mac computers This page has news, reviews, downloads, forums, pictures, bideos and a page about accessories. The page itself is a blog with Apple Mac OS X News, [...]

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2 new ebooks on WordPress from Miraz Jordan available

July 10, 2009

Miraz Jordan is a WordPress expert, and also writes the Mac Tips blog quoted here from time to time. She has 2 new ebooks available, at very reasonable prices! First is How to backup your WordPress website, US$4.75. Backing up your WordPress blog or Web site is critical, as servers are not perfect and data [...]

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Reassessing the Apple Tax

June 15, 2009

by Michael Scalisi, PC World The following article is reprinted from the BizFeed blog at PCWorld.com. Macs are often criticized for the high price of their hardware. This so-called Apple tax is the premium that Apple computers usually cost over comparably equipped PCs. But since the company dropped prices on its laptop line yesterday, that [...]

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Safari 3.2 problems continue… for some

November 17, 2008

Safari 3.2 a disaster in progress? I use a few Internet plugins, like Glims and AcidSearch, and didn’t realize that Safari 3.2 would be so unfriendly to them. Previously, plugins would simply not load (with an error message) if they weren’t compatible. With the new Safari release, the app crashed instead. (the latest Pithhelmet release [...]

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Google Chrome joins the browser wars

September 7, 2008

Just what we need… another browser! Google launched their new browser to great fanfare the other day. How fast is it? Immediately after the Google Chrome release conflicting stories about both speed and security started flowing out of the web. Part of the confusion comes from Google’s release of test results done on their own [...]

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Do we like our Macs? Oh yes…

August 21, 2008

Love (or hate) your computer company? 2008s American Customer Satisfaction index, released by the University of Michigan for the PC industry show Apple taking the top honor for the 5th year in a row. Apple and Dell were the only companies to increase their customer satisfaction rating this year over last. The ACSI scores are [...]

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This week’s Utility Roundup

June 4, 2008

Force Eject 1.0 can be used to eject any removable disk that the system will not eject. It’s freeware, and can also be found on Apple’s site. Spotless 2.0.1 is not free, but is fairly inexpensive at $16.95. It does only one thing: it enables and disables Spotlight content indexing with the click of a [...]

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Review of the newest iMac

May 31, 2008

Computerworld has a new review out, of the latest Penryn iMacs, used at home in the author’s (Scot Finnie) home, complete with 3, 6 and 16 year old kids to give it a workout. Scot relates the experiences of his kids getting used to the new machine… I barely had it set up before the [...]

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New MacBook Pro 15″ (Penryn) reviewed

May 26, 2008

PC Magazine, not a hotbed of Mac FanBoy activity, published a review of the new MacBook Pro, giving it an Editor’s rating of 4.5 (of 5) and a reader rating of 5. The review comments on the increased battery life and other new additions, and says the following: There are other new additions worth talking [...]

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Mozy Online Backup now for Macs

May 2, 2008

Mozy inc. (EMC Corp.) offers on-line backups, but until now Mac users were left out. Not anymore. MozyHome for Mac rolled out yesterday, costing $4.95/month for unlimited storage. Their free version is limited to 2GB online storage. MozyHome for Mac is aimed at the home and small business user and offers hosted backup for storage [...]

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