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50/50 MacTips – can you suggest a Tip?

Creative Tech.

50 Mac Tips in 50 minutes is my September challenge at the 2010 CreativeTech conference. What Tips can you suggest?

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Sit back and watch your Mac work with Keyboard Maestro

Show me the time.

Keyboard Maestro chains together actions so you can do less work while your Mac does more. I love sitting back watching my Mac work for me.

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Games to lead you to distraction

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Bejeweled, Sudoku and Bookworm are my distractors of choice.

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Mailplane makes Gmail so much smoother

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Mailplane makes using Gmail on a Mac smoother, easier and just somehow more enjoyable.

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Low vision? Visit the Mac-cessibility Network

The Mac-cessibility Network connects, compiles, and provides easy access to the best resources for blind, visually impaired, and other disability groups using Apple products.

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Fooled you – my browser has a cloak of many colours

Is your browser being rejected? OmniWeb offers impressive options for each individual website you visit.

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New Apple Reseller in Wellington

Hmmm, there’s a new Apple Reseller in town. From an email I received last night: …the new premium Apple reseller The Bay which opens at 195 Lambton Quay on Thursday. … There is a preview of the store on Wednesday [5 November 2008] from 5 to 8pm. I won’t be attending the preview. Between the [...]

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Search Apple Support by serial number

The auction for my old G4 Powerbook is going well. It closes soon and there is strong interest. One bidder asked for the serial number and pointed out you can search Apple by serial number to see specifications for a machine. I wish I’d realised that before I’d listed it — it could have saved [...]

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New(ish) Mac links for Kiwis

Mark Webster, former editor of NZ Macguide magazine and now a freelance Mac trainer in Auckland writes a column for the NZ Herald: Mac Planet. There’s only one article there right now, but keep watching for more Mac news. As a long-time Mac user (since 1989) and editor of New Zealand’s only dedicated Mac magazine [...]

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In honour of #2

Last night I saw an episode of the Simpsons where Lisa has to deal with a new girl in class who’s smarter than she is. At one point she tries to persuade herself there’s nothing wrong with being second. Cue the latest Get a Mac ad, Pep Rally. [Via news: Jobs to keynote WWDC~Microsoft Service [...]

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