Learn more about .Mac, and what all those folders are inside your .Mac account.
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Macspiration 44
Teach Me MyMac
Emailing Web Pages
The best way to learn your Mac is to watch someone show you how to do it. In this first Teach Me MyMac, Donny looks at how easy it is to email a webpage.
Read MoreWhat to do with your old iMac
Do you have an unused iMac G3 sitting around? Before you relegate that old iMac to the garbage heap, or turn it into a planter or an (mac)aquarium, here are some other ideas to put it to good use.
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Easy Online Albums with Homepage and .Mac
All the buzz lately has been about iLife ’06 and iWeb. iWeb is a great tool for making websites, and I use it myself, but before iWeb there was Homepage. Homepage was, and still is, part of .Mac. If you have a .Mac account you can easily use Homepage to make a variety of webpages. I’m going to discuss making a photo album today
Read MoreProject – Network Attached Storage for my home office
Macspiration 42
Ten Common Tech Terms
At MyMac.com, and other computer sites, terms like freeware, burn, jpeg, and more are being used all of the time. Sometimes we (the writers) take for granted that the audience understands what we are talking about. I figured I’d make a list of ten of the more common terms we might use in articles. You might look at a lot of the words below and think they are common sense. What might be common sense to you might be totally foreign to another person.
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Transferring Files From Your Old Mac to Your New One
If there is a worst part of getting a new computer (except for the price) it is setting it up to your liking. You have to install your applications, get your documents on the computer, transfer music and photos, change all of the settings, etc. If your old computer is a working Mac with a firewire port, Apple takes the frustration out of this process and makes it really easy with the Migration Assistant. All you need is the old computer, the new computer, a little time, and a firewire cable.
Read MoreMacspiration 40 – The Download Drawer 6 – Open Source Alternatives
Do you want programs like Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop, or Office, but their prices don’t fit into your budget? If so, the programs listed in this article are all FREE open source alternatives to these programs
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iPhoto Tips
Here’s five iPhoto quick tips for you on Export, Merge Rolls, Batch Change, Quick Rotation, and Duplicate.
Read MoreProject: A USB Cam, my Mac and iChat…
The quest to get an old Logitech USB QuickCam to work with iChat.
Macspiration 38
Installing Fonts with Font Book
If you are using many fonts, and have Mac OS X, learn to take advantage of a powerful, and free, application already on your Macintosh. Font Book.
Macspiration 37 – iTunes Tips
This week I’m going to give you a few tips for using iTunes. Just like my normal Quick Tips, these are short tips that are too short for their own article, but still useful.
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Refurbished Macs and the Verbose Mode Dilemma
This Macspiration is going to be a little different – More of a story with a solution to a problem. This may not be a common problem, but I have seen it more than once, which makes me think there are more people out there with the same experience.
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Sharing Text Files Between Computers
Have you ever sent a word processing document to another person, but they could not open the file? If so, this installment of Macspiration should be able to help you out.
Create a Mother’s Day Letter or Card with Apple’s Pages
A true Mac user would never be caught buying a Hallmark greeting card when he or she has TextEdit, AppleWorks, Pages or some other graphic layout program installed on his or her Mac. If you have Pages installed, you can whip a out nice Mother’s Day letter that will be more meaningful and personal than all the store bought cards you’ve purchased in the past.
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The Download Drawer 5
A Mixed Bag of Downloads
Generally, I try to keep the downloads in the Download Drawer centered around a theme. This time I decided to just list a few great programs that, basically, have nothing in common, except that they are made for the Mac. As usual, all of these programs are free.
Read MoreThe Adjustment Tool in iPhoto 6 – Part 1
No doubt, either version of Adobe’s Photoshop offers the best tools for photo enhancements, but Apple’s iPhoto image Adjustment tool provides a quick, down and dirty, method for enhancing your photos. I rarely print out or publish a photo to the web without at least using one aspect of this Adjustment tool.
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Installing, Upgrading or Reinstalling OSX Part 2
Last week I discussed how to do a basic installation of OSX. This week I will discuss different options you can choose (or may have to choose) during the installation process. Some of these options will save you hard drive space, and also shorten the installation time. Once again, the screen shots are from a 10.3 install, and may vary slightly for other versions of OSX.
Macspiration 32 – Installing, Upgrading or Reinstalling OSX Part 1
Recently, I was helping a friend install Mac OS-X onto some Macs that were donated to his school. While doing this, I figured I’d take some pictures of the monitor and write an article about how to install Mac OS-X onto a Mac. The steps described in the article also work for upgrading Mac OS-X (i.e. going from Jaguar to Panther), or reinstalling Mac OS-X for those rare times that you just need a fresh start.
Read MoreMacspiration 30 – The Finder Window Part 3
It’s finally here! The final part of the Finder Window article. This week’s installment will discuss how to use and customize the Toolbar.
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