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Quick Tip #127
Have you ever found yourself typing along when suddenly you BEGIN SHOUTING EVERYTHING YOU TYPE? Accidentally tapping the Caps Lock key is a common problem, but Caps Lock can be disabled, and this week’s tip tells you how.
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Running Time: 1:52
Quick Tip #126
If you’ve ever wanted to take control of the types of documents Spotlight returns when searching on your Mac, this week’s tip tells you how.
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Running Time: 2:07
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In October of last year Apple held their “Back To The Mac” event and made several announcements. Chief among them was a new MacBook Air, a preview of the next version of OS X, and a new App Store for the Mac. Though by the time you read this, the Verizon iPhone will have been announced and that will be the story on everyone’s lips, I got to wondering if we won’t look back at this October event and see it as far more pivotal than we first realized. [Read more…]
Mac OS X 10.6.6 and the brand new Mac App Store were released just days ago, as promised, even showing up a few hours before the official 9 AM PST start time. I found myself, like many other Mac fanatics, breaking open the virtual shrink-wrap on the new store and having a look around.
The Mac App Store is likely to have its biggest impact on new and, dare I say less geeky, Mac users. A couple of weeks from now, when all the new Macs that people will buy are pre-loaded with 10.6.6, finding and purchasing third-party applications is going to be a lot easier. The very fact that the Mac App Store is so familiar — and installed right there on the Dock — means that many more people will be able to be connected with high-quality, very useful applications that they would never previously have known about.
While there are concerns of another ‘race to the bottom’ with regards to pricing, it seems more than credible that developers will also do very well out of the Mac App Store, just because they will be reaching more eyes than before and will shift more copies of their code.
So, it’s great for new Mac users, it’s great for developers. The App Store is a great success on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, but is it really the right fit for the Mac? [Read more…]
FMEO.TV Episode #002
In this episode of FMEO.TV, Mike shows how to create greeting cards on your Mac using iPhoto ’09, an application that comes pre-loaded on every new Mac.
Note: iPhone users may need to “Create iPod or iPhone Version” in iTunes before syncing.
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Running Time: 18:09
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