Apple Announces iPad Media Event – May Also Include New Apple TV

by Tom Nelson Apple today made it official: The company will hold a media event on March 7th at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. While not much of a surprise to avid Apple fans, the official reveal does cement the location, which most people thought would indeed be San Francisco, [...]

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Configuring Messages – Working With the Messages Beta for Mac

by Tom Nelson Have you installed Messages Beta for OS X Lion yet? If you haven’t, you may find our “Guide to Installing Messages Beta in OS X Lion” helpful. Installing Messages Beta is only the first step. Well, actually it’s the second step; you did perform a backup first, right? Now that Messages is [...]

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iMac Wi-Fi Update v1.0 Now Available

by Tom Nelson If you’re running OS X Lion on a 2009 or later model iMac, you may already be aware of a slight problem with waking from sleep (your Mac, that is). The OS X Lion 10.7.3 update appears to be causing problems with iMacs reconnecting to the Wi-Fi network when they wake from [...]

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Apple Steals & Deals: Sunday, February 26, 2012

by Tom Nelson Looking for a fabulous deal on an Apple or related product? Well, so am I! Every Sunday, I scan the Apple refurbished store to see which Apple products are currently available, and which ones represent good bargains. I try to look only at current versions of Macs, but once in a while [...]

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Cocktail: Tom’s Mac Software Pic

by Tom Nelson Cocktail has been one of my picks before. It’s also been a runner-up in our annual Readers’ Choice Awards in the system utility category. Cocktail was one of the original utilities for OS X, and has always been a favorite of many Mac users. This most recent version includes support for OS [...]

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Guide to Installing Messages Beta in OS X Lion

by Tom Nelson Messages, Apple’s upcoming replacement for iChat, is now available for OS X Lion users to try out as a beta. Messages goes beyond the capabilities of iChat and lets you send text, video, photos, and attachments to a Mac or iOS 5 device, without incurring an SMS charge from your mobile data [...]

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Readers’ Choice Awards 2012 – Time to Vote

by Tom Nelson Are you ready to pick the best of the best? If you are, then you’re in luck; the voting booths have opened for the Readers’ Choice Awards 2012. There are 8 Mac categories and 38 finalists waiting to find out who will come out on top and who will have to wait [...]

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Apple to Build New Data Center in Oregon

by Tom Nelson Apple plans to build a new data center on 160 acres in Prineville, Oregon, according to KTVZ. The new data center would have a Facebook data center as a nearby neighbor. The property was purchased for $5.6 million by a company known as Project Maverick as a way to conceal the real [...]

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Have You Updated to Lion? Use Our Lion Install Guide to Update Your Mac

by Tom Nelson Are you using Lion? I ask because of Apple’s announcement last week that Mountain Lion, the newest version of OS X, will be available to the public sometime in the summer. I’m betting on late summer, but either way, a brand-new version of OS X will be ready for prime time within [...]

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Apple Steals & Deals: Sunday, February 19, 2012

by Tom Nelson Looking for a fabulous deal on an Apple or related product? Well, so am I! Every Sunday, I scan the Apple refurbished store to see which Apple products are currently available, and which ones represent good bargains. I try to look only at current versions of Macs, but once in a while [...]

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