Hello There Macintosh User!
If you are getting this email you have sometime been a client of mine — Thank you for your past custom!
No update for August as I was in Bali.
1. Snow Leopard: Installed and underwhelmed! No, actually it is so cheap that the slight speed and hard drive space gains mean it’s well worth it. Several nice features as well. If you have an Intel chip Mac go for it.
2. Hey DJ! : In the new iTunes 9 there is a DJ playlist that’s is very useful for parties and general having fun with your mates. http://www.macworld.com/article/139720/2009/03/itunesdj.html 3. aMSN: A fuller featured application than the regular MSN Messenger whose registration it uses. Supports video for one thing…for people, or more likely their kids, who are on MSM Messenger but want video as well. http://www.amsn-project.net/ 4. Aardvark! : At Aardvark they have a really useful way of finding stuff out: ask everyone else. Instead of Googling away for hours trying to find information this site asks people in your social network (via your Facebook or any other social networking sites) and if they don’t know it asks their networks, and so on. Explained as often is by David “Mr. Prolific” Pogue. http://vark.com http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/got-a-burning-question-ask-the-net/ 5. Scribd : Called YouTube for documents, Scribd lets anyone publish their written work online. You can read books, buy books and read all sorts of stuff and spend a lifetime reading here. Like a private library. http://www.scribd.com 6. Scribbles : Very intuitive and simple drawing and tracing tool. It lets you draw without the limitations of a certain size canvas. Free to try forever and US$19.95 to register and publish online. http://www.atebits.com/scribbles 7. Handy Audio Converter : All2MP3 changes all those pesky .wma Windows files or any other audio file format to MP3. Free http://www.all2mp3.com/ 8. iPhone Apps : Speedtest your iPhone internet connection. Free. Yahoo and Yahoo Messenger let you do all the Yahoo things on your little gadget. Free. Flickr has also arrived to enable photo and video uploads on the fly. Free.
9. Speedtest: Speedtest checks your ADSL connection and a few other toys too for free and it is available for the iPhone too. http://www.speedtest.net/ 10. Time Tracking Software : Two offerings, one free and one US$47 after a 21 day trial. Time Tracker is free and might be sufficient for you to keep track of several projects at once so you can invoice for them properly. OfficeTime has more features like automatic linking to iCal plus more and its not that expensive… http://mac-free.com/download/Time-Tracker.html http://www.officetime.net/ 11. Ant Firefox Toolbar: Ant is a net little Firefox toolbar that lets you save any YouTube or similar videos easily. http://www.ant.com/toolbar 12. MYOB Seminar : MYOB is that essential bit of software that we all hate, accounting. Well not all of you of course… Here is an online free seminar that might help unless you are numerically challenged like many of us. http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/aotmmyob/apple/index.html?s=300 13. Cocktail Snow Leopard Utility Update: Cocktail has been updated for the new OS. Free, but registering to make it automatic costs A$18. An excellent way to keep your Mac running well. http://www.maintain.se/cocktail/index.php 14. Apple Keynote In 1.5 Minutes: The last Apple keynote speech edited somewhat…! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx7v815bYUw&feature=player_embedded 15. BSMUG: The Byron Shire Macintosh User Group (BSMUG) Catering for Mac beginners as well as experienced Mac users. Visit the website and the forum for more information: http://bsmug.ozshop.net http://www.ozshop.net/ozforum/index.php 16. A Reminder of My Rates: I charge $88 per hour including GST. No call-out fee or travel charge in the Byron Shire. Half hour minimum. Telephone support costs the same in 15 minute increments. Email support is still free! Please include plenty of detail in your email inquiries. Serving the Byron Macintosh community for over 8 years.
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Mr Macintosh Tom Hain PO Box 1040 Byron Bay NSW 2481 6685 5504 041 840 8869