Mac

Installing apps on your Mac

April 13, 2010 How To
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A num­ber of my friends are fist time Mac users and I’ve been answer­ing a lot of ques­tions. One place where new Mac users get stuck is with installing apps. My friends are used to the Win­dows method of instal­la­tion. Launch a setup.exe file, click Next, click Next again to agree to the license, wait […]

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Connect your home Mac to the office

March 23, 2010 How To
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Dur­ing the first few months I’ve worked from home more often than I did all of last year. I’m not on any offi­cial com­pany tele­worker pro­gram; it’s just that we’ve had quite a num­ber of storms hit the area. I think we had about three snow storms in Feb­ru­ary that left so much snow on […]

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How to secure your Mac — Part 1

January 12, 2010 How To
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So you just got your new Mac and are excited to start using it. You’ve heard a lot about how Macs are easy to use and how secure they are. You’ve seen the ads on TV show­ing how Win­dows is sus­cep­ti­ble to viruses and hack­ing and Macs are (sup­pos­edly) immune. Apple’s mar­ket­ing machine and Steve […]

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ShareTool — remote access for any Mac application or service that uses Bonjour

December 31, 2009 Review
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When my MobileMe account came up for renewal, I let it expire. I did not need it. I had found cheaper and bet­ter alter­na­tives. When Apple’s $99 MobileMe ser­vice was released I was quick to reg­is­ter. With MobileMe I could access my mail, con­tacts, and cal­en­dar infor­ma­tion in the “cloud” and keep every­thing in sync […]

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OmmWriter Beta — Zen writing for the Mac

December 13, 2009 Review
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I was catch­ing up on read­ing the news feeds this morn­ing when I came across a post on the smok­ing apples blog about a new text edi­tor called OmmWriter. I’m not sure why I down­loaded it. Maybe because of what OmmWriter’s cleanly designed web site promised. So here I am writ­ing this blog post in […]

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Google Chrome is faster than .…

October 27, 2009 Review
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For me the word Chrome evokes images of the shiny, the futur­is­tic and the fast. Clean, effi­cient and well built. Google Chrome devel­oper pre­view doesn’t dis­ap­point. Google has taken WebKit, the same Open Source brows­ing engine that Safari is built on, and in a very short time devel­oped a browser for Mac and Win­dows that […]

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