Category Archives: Apple

My iPhone Apps

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Dave

Since the iPhone has allowed the installation of third party apps, the utility of the device has increased massively. It just does so much! Here are the ones I find myself using most often: Twitterific – The best twitter client … Continue reading →

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Some MacBook Questions

Posted on May 24, 2008 by Dave

I do love my Macbook, I have to say, and it gets an awful lot more use than my Vista laptop, which you can see just in shot, shut as usual. Mine is a 2.2 GHz model – the middle … Continue reading →

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Editing text on a Mac

Posted on February 4, 2008 by Dave

John Naughton had a request from a friend for an alternative to MS Word on a Mac. John pointed him in the direction of TextEdit (Windows users, think WordPad), which comes built into OSX. One issue with this was the … Continue reading →

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Finding Mac Software

Posted on January 31, 2008 by Dave

I am trying to find all the software I need to make my Macbook as useful to me as my Vista laptop is. Obviously some things are made much easier, like making Skype calls (no longer any requirement for a … Continue reading →

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I’ve bought a Mac!

Posted on January 30, 2008 by Dave

Yes, for the first time in my life, I have bought a Mac – to be precise, a MacBook with 2.2Ghz, 120gb hard disk and a paltry 1gb RAM. That will be the first thing to be resolved, I reckon, … Continue reading →

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