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Month: February, 2009

[Switchers] New to the Mac? Where do I start?

photo credit: Guillermо
As mentioned on edu.Mac.nation before, my mother just switched to the Mac a few weeks ago and I have been guiding her along with her new adventure. In approaching how I would guide her I realized that finding your way around a Mac the first week (first month!) can be a bit [...]

No Comments by Michael on February 28, 2009
filed in Hardware, Support
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[Poll] What do you use for backup? Time Machine? CarbonCopyCloner? SuperDuper!? [Name of App. Here]?

photo credit: L. Marie
What do you use for backing up your data?
Feel free to select more than one choice in the poll!
[poll id="2"]
Currently I use Time Machine as a “versioning” system, CarbonCopyCloner as an “image” tool, and a mix between iDisk/SmugMug/and personal server space for “Offsite Storage”.
Related to this is Josh Schnell’s “Paranoid OS [...]

3 Comments by Michael on February 23, 2009
filed in Education, Hardware, Poll, Support
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[iMovie '09] Green Screen Tutorial from iClarified.com

Found a great step by step tutorial from iClarified.com on how to use a green screen in the new iMovie ‘09. I have only posted the first few steps below. You can click through to check out the rest on their site!
iClarified – Mac OS X – How to Green Screen Using iMovie 09.
“Step One
For [...]

2 Comments by Michael on February 19, 2009
filed in Applications, Support, Video
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[Observations from a Boomer] iPhone Ringtones: “What, I missed that call again?”

photo credit: ten safe frogs
“Necessity, who is the mother of invention” was never more true when I needed a new ringtone and was not able to find the one I needed (or had hoped for). All of the stock iPhone ringtones lacked that special “something” that I was looking for… the progressive type of ringtone [...]

No Comments by Gary on February 18, 2009
filed in Boomer, Support, iPhone
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[Tips] Microsoft Publisher documents on a Mac

Found this tip today and thought it was a pleasant coincidence because I had just asked a co-worker to send me a PDF of her Microsoft Publisher document instead of the .pub file.
Using Publisher Documents on a Mac [Mossberg’s Mailbox]:

“I need to use Microsoft Publisher documents on my MacBook. Unfortunately, I can’t figure out how [...]

No Comments by Michael on February 18, 2009
filed in Applications, Education, Support
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Colorsplash: #2 of my top 5 iPhone Photo Apps- “A Splash of color from Colorsplash”- TUAW Review

TUAW did a much better job today describing what I attempted to share (regarding the usability of Colorsplash) below…
My description…
[Photography] My Top Five iPhone Photo Apps…Photogene, CameraBag, ColorSplash, Pano, and Flickit- posted 2/16/09
“The navigation, brushes, and stability are top notch. I love how you can switch between the colored portions of the image and the [...]

No Comments by Michael on February 17, 2009
filed in Applications, iPhone
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