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Here at last – my new iPhone

It seems like my wait is over (almost 2 months). My new iPhone 5 was delivered to me today, and I must say, it’s been a while since I’ve anticipated a new device this much. Some background would be...

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Historical Gems – Text Clipping

We’ve mentioned this one before, but it’s worth repeating again. One of the best and most useful features of a Mac is something called Text Clipping. Simply put, it’s the kind of thing that you might...

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Tip of the Week – Hide that Dock!

  A quick one to start the week…. I fell in love with the Dock that was introduced with OS X over a decade ago. As of yet, I’ve never found anything that holds frequently used Apps, folders, and other...

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Keyboard Shortcut of the Week – Screenshot to clipboard

  We’ve talked about screenshots before. As of yet, I’ve never used any other computer system that has screenshots built into their systems out of the box. Normally, you’d go for the cmd + shift + 4,...

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Apple to the rescue

I’ve been reading a lot of press lately about the demise of Apple. Their shares are on a downward slump, and every other article about Apple will happily pick through quarterly earnings, dissecting...

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my iPhone 5 review (I know it’s a little late…)

I’ve had my iPhone for a little over a fortnight. As I’ve mentioned a few times before, Malaysia enjoys a much slower pace, when it comes to new Apple products going on sale. That, coupled with my...

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Instagram effects in iPhoto pt II

A while back, we did an article about Instagram effects in iPhoto. It turned out to be an incredibly popular article. To this day, I still get asked about how to get a certain effect in iPhoto. The...

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iPhoto before and after.

A quick tip today for you all. When you’re in iPhoto doing some  editing of photos, it’s quite easy to get lost in layers of edits and effects. What most people don’t know is that simply by clicking...

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Mac gem of the week – Springy Folders

One of the things I hate about navigating around a computer’s hard disk is the endless opening and closing of folders. This is especially annoying when you don’t quite know where you are or where...

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Zite update 2.1

Since I downloaded Zite just over 2 years ago, it has been without a doubt one of the few apps I have clicked on every single day. Totalling up my reading on the iPad (and I do A LOT of reading on my...

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Mac App Review – Coconut Battery

A lot of Macstarter readers will be browsing this site on their MacBooks. I’ve said it before, nobody makes a better laptop than Apple. One of the reasons for their popularity must be the battery life...

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GarageBand

We’ve covered some Apps in the past, for the Mac, iPhone and iPad. One of the killer features of buying a Mac of any kind is that it comes with iLife. If you think that most laptops (that aren’t Macs)...

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Happy Birthday!

As it’s my beautiful daughter’s birthday today (she’s a very cute two) I thought I would post a very relevant article. I am very good at remembering birthdays, but terrible at remembering to phone and...

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Lion – autosaving

One of the features that has me hooked already in Lion is the built in autosave. This shouldn’t be confused with the normal autosaves that programs like Word already do. So, for example, when you open...

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Lion – was it worth it?

I’ve been using Lion for a couple of weeks now, and I have to say it’s not been like my previous OS X upgrades. Rather like buying a new car, getting used to LIon has been tougher than I thought,...

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Assigning an App to a Desktop

Being a hardcore spaces fan, Lions new Desktops has had me feeling a little uneasy. Spaces was arranged in a nice 4×4 grid (or more if you wanted), and navigating between them using ctrl + arrows was a...

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When to buy a new Mac

I get a lot of people asking me about the timing of when to buy a new Mac. Quite often, I will hear from somebody who bought a shiny new MacBook on Friday, to hear the following Tuesday that the entire...

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Keyboard Shortcut of the Week – cmd + E

When I first used a Mac (back in the 80′s), one of the features that I fell in love with immediately was the way that disks, whether they were Floppy, external hard drives or USB thumb drives, would...

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Mac Colours pt II – creating a colour scheme

In the previous article, we talked about the Font and Colour palette on your Macs. Today, we’re going to talk about one of the coolest features you’ll ever see on a computer, and it’s something that...

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Important Software Update

We’ve talked before about software updates. They are good to do, and should be done in a timely fashion, but generally you can put them off a day or two. Today Apple released a vital security update...

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