How to Enter the Mac Universe

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Sep 152013
 
How to Enter the Mac Universe

A Mac mini is a good way to dip your toes into the Mac universe if you’re considering abandoning the familiar terrain of the Windows world. In the U.S., the entry-level Mac mini computer costs between $569-$599 (depending on where you buy) and comes with 500GB of storage, 4GB of Read More

Apple Pushes Out OS X 10.8.5 Update

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Sep 122013
 

Close on the heels of its OS X Mavericks (version 10.9) launch, Apple has put out an update to its Mountain Lion operating system. The 10.8.5 update is supposed to boost the stability, compatibility and security of Mac systems running Mountain Lion. The update features a bunch of improvements: * Read More

How To Snag Discounts on Software

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Sep 102013
 

Good software (or apps as they’re fashionably referred to these days) is not cheap. Whether you’re buying directly from the vendors or from AppStores like Mac, good quality software often runs upwards of $10 and can go up to even a hundred dollars. The majority of apps on Apple’s AppStore Read More

Eisenpower App is Now Quadranto – New Features and Higher Price

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Sep 092013
 
Eisenpower App is Now Quadranto - New Features and Higher Price

Eisenpower Interface I purchased the Eisenpower task manager app (version 1.1.3) from the Mac AppStore for $4.99 in March 2013 and have been using it on and off. The beauty of Eisenpower is its simplicity: there’s no learning curve to get started. Within a few seconds after downloading it to Read More

Microsoft Starts Screwing Windows XP Users

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Sep 092013
 
Microsoft Starts Screwing Windows XP Users

Microsoft has already started making life difficult for Windows XP users as the company gets ready to end support for Windows XP (and Office 2003) on April 8, 2014. I recently got a preview of Microsoft’s non-support vis-a-vis Windows XP will be like. I removed my hard drive from a Read More

Beware Limitations of Find My Mac

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Sep 072013
 

When Apple introduced the free Find My Mac feature in 2011, Mac users who forked out a hefty sum for their MacBook Pros and iMacs were elated. Mac owners’ thinking was that any thief making away with their precious Mac computers would soon be caught saving them the anxiety and Read More