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Internet Safety News and Information You Can Use - Joe Showker passes along some sage tips for summer safety on the internet ... See the full story...
Fred and brother Joe pile up two heaping pick-up loads of old Macs, monitors and printers; destined for the recycling center. It was a good day -- but brought mixed emotions...
Grapevines are buzzing... see the videos, commercials, and lots of comments from all over the world. 'So Bright... So Beautiful... Ah, My Precious.' iPhone is coming ... are you ready for it?
From the creators of 2005's best puzzle game, Professor Fizzwizzle, comes a logic puzzler of volcanic proportions: Professor Fizzwizzle and the Molten Mystery!
We have discussed several alternatives in the past for putting Windows and Windows appications on an Intel Mac. Here is one more.
I recently saw an advertisement for Spell Catcher. I used to have a copy of it on my Classic Mac machine. I loved the fact that I only had to enter a new word only once for it to be used in all applications.
While Spell Catcher is great for accessing its database of words, gSpeill can suggest words based on the Google engine.
As most of you probably know, effective February 17, 2009 we will no longer be able to receive over the air broadcasts on analog TV. However, many people do not know and retailers have been instructed to put warnings on the TV sets. (Read More)
I remember doing a meeting topic of How to Keep Your Mac Healthy" in the Classic OS Days. This sounds like this could be a good topic to discuss as well.
As you know, Mac OS X 10.5 is going to introduce virtual desktops. It is possible to add that feature to Tiger. See the full story...
I am sure that as a user group volunteer you have often told members to back up and to keep an off site backup copy as well. (Read More)
WAAV, formerly Omniwav Mobile, is putting mobile cellular routers on the road... now users can access the Internet from their cars -- proven up to 100 miles per hour zoom, zoom, zoom...
Isn't it a real insult to have your "five-hour" MacBook or PowerBook battery only last an hour and 45-minutes? Well, NewerTech is doing something about that...
We get quite a few requeses such as this one, so let this alert you all:
> Hello, I have been looking for an internet user group
> because I am disabled and don't have the resources to
> go to meetings.
> I'm 73 and have been using a Mac Ox10.3.9 for nearly
> two years with an HP Photosmart 2710 all-in-one printer.
> There is a great deal I still need to learn but couldn't
> find he right link for Victoria Australia.
So, if you have an internet-based user group, or you know of a good one, please pass it along to us...
Apple Updates MacBook Pro Latest Intel Core 2 Duo Processors, Memory Up to 4GB and Higher Performance Graphics Across the Line See the full story...
Recognize any names? MacTech Magazine has announced the 2007 MacTech 25: The Mac technical community's most influential people. I'll bet you know a few of these
With GoLive 9, designers can master the basics of web design and then grow into building more sophisticated web experiences using the industry-leading tools in Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 software. Adobe GoLive 9
Apple's iPod with iPDA serves as an excellent replacement PDA -- Word, PDF, Apple Pages, RTF or text documents -- along with information from Entourage, Stickies, Mail, Address Book and iCal, can all be easily imported into iPod. (Read More)
"The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it."
- Adam Smith
"You can observe a lot just by watching."
- - Yogi Berra
Have a great week... (See last week)
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