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After much resistance, finally upgraded my Mac’s RAM from 1GB to 3GB. The difference is amazing.

I needed it because I run Windows (in Parallels), Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Safari and Firefox all at the same time. Plus a few others like Mail and Pastor. Not surprisingly that was killing my machine.

Now it flies! Well, it’s not that it’s any faster, per se, it’s just that no matter which app I am in, it works and feels like it is the only app running. No more whirring hard drive, mashing virtual memory.

And even with all those apps open, I’ve still got 1/2 a gig to spare!

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Have finally seen the light and started using del.icio.us (although I hate the spelling). I kick myself for not using it years ago. So often I’ve visted pages and then nebver been able to find them again.
I’m using it now though because I want to access my bookmarks at home and school.
However, visually, it’s rather […]

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Valleywag’s Rumormonger has rumored MacBook Air could have AT&T wireless access built-in. Not an original idea with respondents on that column have pointing out Windows PCs have had that facility for a few years.
But what if Apple cut a deal with AT&T so iPhone users could share their data component of their iPhone plans with […]

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Like many others, I discovered web sharing not working in Leopard. It seems to be caused by using a Time Machine restored version of your system. That was my problem, and here’s a fix found on the Apple support forums that worked for me.

Maybe this will help you. The apache2 log file directory […]

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I rarely see one that catches my eye, but this one sure did. It is Visual Thesaurus.Doesn’t sound catchy yet.

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There’s been silly talk around the place that Apple’s new iMovie, which has a revolutionary new editing interface but is missing many important features of its predecessor, is in fact a sneaky plot by Apple to force people who want to make movies on Macs to buy Final Cut Express.This is nonsense.

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Lately with the resurgence of the Mac, sites are springing up, and articles are being written on switching. To make life easier for switchers, I am going to collate them on this page as I come across them.

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Fascinating how Visicalc, the first spreadsheet was a killer app. Lotus 123 was a killer app, Excel again was a killer app (albeit helped by being part of MS Office suite).Now we find ourselves in 2007 and Apple has revolutionized spreadsheets with its new Numbers application, part of its iWork productivity suite, that includes Keynote for presentations, and PAges for word processing and desktop publishing.

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Joined Facebook today coz everyone - especially Robert Scoble - www.scobleizer.com - keeps talking about it…. Admittedly, that was friends already on Facebook.Then it proposes other ways to make friends on Facebook, such as networking.

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Have spent the last three days trying to get my student edition of Adobe Creative Suite registered. Five emails from two different email accounts with relevant documentation attached failed to arrive at Adobe.Eventually it seems the problem might be Adobe limiting emails with attachments.

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