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Twitter tricks

Public tweets, private messages, protected updates, RSS feeds — there are many ways to use Twitter.

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Google Earth Layers rich information

I often go out and look at the stars. Sometimes I take a telescope or binoculars — astronomy’s a hobby. Every single time I spend more than a couple of minutes gazing at the night sky I see at least one satellite whizzing by: north to south, south to north, west to east, there’s always [...]

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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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Enthusiastic about Apple news? – Links by the gazillion

All the Mac news you could ever want is linked from Apple Enthusiast, according to TidBITS Tech News: Apple Enthusiast Offers New Take on News Aggregation: Apple Enthusiast scours the RSS feeds of numerous Macintosh publications and sites, including TidBITS, to present headlines and links to original articles. What sets Apple Enthusiast apart from other [...]

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Track yourself with Google News Alerts

In the past it was difficult, time consuming and expensive to monitor the news. Now we have Google News Alerts. [First published February 2004. There are now many more tools you can use to track mentions of yourself or your projects, but Google Alerts remains very useful.] Your community group or business needs to monitor [...]

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Customise the news

Not so long ago we had to rely on broadcasters to select our news for us. Then they would issue us with the ‘news’ at regular intervals. [Of course, by then it was often 'olds'.] Now we can read the personal experiences of ordinary people as events happen, and we can check a News web [...]

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