How I Got A Great Deal On An Apple iMac

February 23, 2010

Last week, I finally took the plunge and switched my alliances with PC and Windows and switched to Apple. I bought a 21.5″ Apple iMac with 4GB of RAM, 500GB hard drive, ATI Radeon HD 4670 graphics card with 256MB memory, and a 3.06GHZ Dual Core Intel processor. I should just move to San Francisco…

Mac 101: Using iChat with AIM Blasts

August 5, 2008

More Mac 101, our ongoing series of tips and tricks for new and returning Mac users. whether you’re an iChat user with a need for instant attention, AIM Blasts makes it easy to add social networking groups to iChat.

When you want to have a conversation with a group of public, blasts let you I…

Mac 101: Running the Apple Hardware tryout software

August 1, 2008

Is your Mac acting funny? whether so, you can use the install disks that came with your machine to experiment your hardware. To use Apple’s Hardware experiment (AHT), insert install disk #1 and reboot your Mac while holding down the “d” key on the keyboard.

The AHT software will load and ask …

Mac 101: Folder shortcuts in the Finder

July 31, 2008

 Another quick tip in our Mac 101 series for beginners: Some special folders on your computer have keyboard shortcuts that you can press to instantly navigate to that folder when using the Finder.

For example, to open your Applications folder, visit on your desktop and use the shift (⇧) an…

Mac 101: organize Spotlight results

July 30, 2008

Welcome to another entry in our series for new Mac users: Mac 101. that installment brings us to the preference panel of Spotlight, OS X’s integrated search that makes finding that needle in your hard drive’s haystack as easy as pie (clearly, it doesn’t protect against mixed metaphors).

You’r…

Mac 101: Disabling motorized login

July 29, 2008

If you use your Mac as a public computer (or family computer), soon after you might not always want it to load your user explanation when the computer starts up. By changing one option in the Accounts System Preference pane, you can have your Mac display a list of user accounts upon startup.

Mac 101: recent tips round-up

July 28, 2008

Looking for some basic Mac know-how? You might have missed these tips the first moment we published them, so here’s another chance for you to get caught up on your mad Mac 101 skills. Remember, 101s are intended for new Mac users; whether you’re an expert, you probably won’t learn anything n…

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