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A great photo editor for your mac

Posted by charly2 On November - 12 - 2009

If you’re looking for a simple photo editor for your mac…

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Seashore is a great, free, program!

Seashore features:

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Apple Manuals are available online!

Posted by charly2 On June - 1 - 2009

If you are looking for the manual of any of your Apple products, including:

  • iPhone User Guide,
  • iPod touch User Guide,
  • MacBook Pro (13-inch),
  • iPod Shuffle (3rd Generation),
  • Mac Mini,
  • iPod Nano, and more!

Be sure to visit Apple’s Manuals on the web!

If you’re interested in learning more about your Apple products, be sure to read these books, they’re great!

Enjoy!

Find out quickly – if a domain is available!

Posted by charly2 On April - 20 - 2009

Because I’m continually working with customers on web sites, I have to check to see if domains are available quite regularly.

Domain is available!

The easiest way to do this on your Mac is like this:

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Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual

Posted by charly2 On April - 12 - 2009

One of the best books I’ve read regarding switching to the Mac (from the world of Microsoft, and Windows) is David Pogue’s book -

Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual

Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual

I really appreciated David’s direct approach to telling you the equivalent:

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Ipod Touch makes phone calls!

Posted by charly2 On April - 5 - 2009

Special thanks to Bob Coller for this awesome tip about how the Ipod Touch makes phone calls!

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Just recently, Skype released it’s App for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and it’s FREE!

“Ok… a month ago I was getting ready for a trip and…

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Great resource for keyboard shortcuts!

Posted by charly2 On February - 2 - 2009

If you’re more inclined to use the keyboard, than the mouse — this web page is a great resource for you:

Mac 101: 56 Useful Mac Shortcuts

Enjoy!

Outlook to Mac Mail Conversion

Posted by charly2 On January - 24 - 2009

Are you looking for a tool to convert your Outlook Mail to your Mac computer, this is for you!  (Thanks, Josh!)

02M - Little Machines

Outlook 2 Mac, by Little Machines, transfers Windows Outlook Mail & Folders to Your Mac!

Outlook 2 Mac (O2M) works with Outlook 97, 98, 2000, 2002, 2003, and the new 2007 on the most recent versions of Windows.

It also:

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Use Office 2004? Open 2007/2008 docs!

Posted by charly2 On January - 9 - 2009

Special thanks to Dan Laursen for this tip!

If you’re an Office 2004 Mac user, and you want to open the newer Office 2007 (Windows), and Office 2008 (Mac) documents — Microsoft provides this tool:

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How to Save a Word document in Pages

Posted by charly2 On January - 2 - 2009

If you’ve become a fan of the Pages Word Processor (which is part of the iWork ‘08 Software Suite) like I have, you might have run into the issue of trying to save your document in Word format.

Usually, an option like that would appear in the Save As screen…

However, with Pages, it’s a little different.

Here’s how to save a Word document in Pages:

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Create MP3’s on your Mac with Max

Posted by charly2 On December - 26 - 2008

Need to create an MP3 on your Mac?  One of the best utilities I’ve found for doing so is…

max

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