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New iMacs and Magic Mouse Trump Windows 7 Launch
In an expceptionally shrewd move Apple today launched a raft of new kit only 2 days before Microsofts release of Windows 7 including new iMacs, a new entry level Macbook, a new multi-touch wireless mouse and redesigned Mac Mini’s including one with Snow Leopard server !
Of most interest to the majority of people will be the Magic Mouse and the astounding new 27″ LED iMac. The Magic Mouse extends Apples multi-touch technology to the mouse, disposing of the roller ball for scrolling in favour of a mouse surface that is a multi-touch trackpad able to respond to most of the gestures possible on the MacBooks trackpad. Mac haters will no doubt love the fact that the device still sports no obvious buttons and will no doubt gloat over the apparent inability of the mouse to allow right mouse clicks, everyone else will quietly configure it to work exactly how they wish and revel in the usual Apple design beauty. Of course even amongst Mac fans the mouse has traditionally been something you either love or hate but personally I think this latest revision looks stunning and sets off the look of the iMac to perfection.
Two New Get A Mac Ads from Apple
Apple has recently added a further two Get A Mac ads that poke fun at Microsoft’s Laptop Hunter campaign ads. The first “Top of the Line” introduces a female character looking for a new laptop who is introduced by PC to “Top Of The Line PC” ( played by Seinfeld actor Patrick Warburton ).
Do You Use An Anti-Virus Product On Your Mac ?
Its been a little while since I last saw a scare story about the “first REAL” virus for Mac OS X being in the wild, and this led me to wonder what anti-virus product UKMac.net readers typically used on their Macs ?
Personally I have free access to Sophos Anti-virus through licence at work, though I have to admit that currently I don’t have Sophos or any other product installed.
How to Clean TFT Screens
Posted by Scott in Featured, Hints And Tips, Mac on October 2, 2008
Heres a quick and simple tip that I can fully recommend. Don’t buy alcohol/chemical based screen cleaning wipes that claim to be designed for laptop or TFT screens. If your screen gets marked from finger prints or splashes from coughs/sneezes I only ever recommend using a clean micro-fibre cloth. You can buy these at any supermarket in the house hold section for less than a couple of pounds and they will last a long time if you keep them clean.
You can use dry for removing settled dust particles but if you have got any other sorts of marks on the screen you will need to VERY lightly dampen with clean water ( a few drops will do, the cloth should not get wet ). Gently buff the area with the damp part of the cloth being careful not to press too hard ( newer iMac owners with glass screens don’t have to worry so much about pressure but I do still recommend the same approach otherwise ).
Windows is FAIL in a Can
Apple Grrl has a great YouTube clip of some friends explaining why one of them should switch from Windows to a Mac. Well worth a look
Apple Updates iMac Range Again
Apple have yet again updated the ever popular iMac. Todays announcement introduces a new high end model sporting a 3.06Ghz Core 2 Duo, upgraded graphics in the form of an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS and 512MB of dedicated video memory and hard disc capacities of up to 1Tb.
This will further consolidate the iMac as THE premium desktop all in one computer and will undoubtedly continue the rise in iMac sales and further blur the previous distinction between the middle range iMac and the high end Power Mac. For the vast majority of users the iMac now represents both the mid range and the high end product in a very slick and desirable package.
MacStyles.com – Customise Your Mac
For some a MacBook is all they need to stand out from the crowd, but if you would like your beloved Apple to stand out that little bit more you should head over to MacStyles.com. Here you can buy custom vinyl stick on covers that make an ordinary MacBook look something special. There are 21 different colours and a huge number of designs to choose from.
In addition to Apple laptops they have covers for iPods and Mac Minis. Well worth a look if you want to breathe a bit of new life into an older Apple product.
How Many Switchers Have You Made ?
I have just had a quick count and I think in the last 12 months I directly affected 6 of my friends and family to turn their back on Windows and Get A Mac.
How many switchers did you make last year ?
A Guide To .Mac Alternatives
Posted by Scott in Apple, Featured, Mac, Photography on January 4, 2008
Apples .Mac service is an excellently put together package of services that compliments the iLife suite of software and OS X perfectly, however, there are some people for whom the additional cost of .Mac cannot be easily justified. With Leopards new Time Machine providing instant and invisible backups of all your local documents the .Mac iDisk facility is perhaps less necessary than in the past, although an offsite copy of important documents is always worth investing time in if your information has any value at all.
As far as photo publishing is concerned the new Gallery feature of .Mac coupled with iPhoto 08 is a solid and seamless way of publishing your photos but it does have one possible downside, particularly to those with large photo libraries, capacity. A standard .Mac subscription buys you just 10Gb of storage. This sounds a lot but once you start uploading photos and videos this space will be used up fairly quickly. One free service that doesn’t get that much publicity which provides free photo storage and integrates nicely with iPhoto is Zooomr. Zooomr is more akin to Flickr than .Mac gallery in terms of facilities provided as photos uploaded to the service become part of a huge repository which others can search through to find images by name or tags. As with Flickr you can elect to change the visibility of uploaded images to prevent anonymous users from finding them by marking them as Friends or Family only. Unlike Flickr however the uploading process for iPhoto users is much slicker. Once you select to upload images and click on the Browse button you are presented with a Finder window that includes your iPhoto library and events which you can then browse through visually to locate the images you wish to upload. If you select an Event all the images in that event are immediately queued for upload. Zooomr has a number of other nice features including the ability to highlight friends and family in a photo by placing a movable marquee over them. Once positioned you can then enter their Zooomr account or name and email address and they will receive an email notifying them that they have been tagged in a photo along with a link to take them to it to view.
Nice Apple Wallpapers at UsingMac.com
Hop over to UsingMac.com for a nice compilation of come of the best Mac Wallpapers from DeviantArt.com
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