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Steve Jobs Standford Commencement Speech

Published 8 hours ago by chimac at Chicago Mac/PC Support

Its fun to see the commencement speech. Click here to watch. Tagged: speech, Steve Jobs, YouTube

Steve Jobs

Interview: The Man Who Named the iMac and Wrote Think Different

Published 8 hours ago by chimac at Chicago Mac/PC Support

Its always nice to read about the people behind the scenes. Click here to read. Tagged: iMac, Ken Segall, Steve Jobs

iMac

What happens when your laptop dies

Published 8 hours ago by chimac at Chicago Mac/PC Support

You unfortunately have some bad experiences with Mail order or have to travel hours to an Apple store. Click here to read. Tagged: dies, laptop, MacMall, Mail order

Apple Inc

Chart: iPod vs. iPhone

Published 8 hours ago by chimac at Chicago Mac/PC Support

The growth of the iPhone is shown clearly in a graph here. It is fun to see how much it has progressed. Click here to view. Tagged: chart, iPhone, iPod

iPod

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iLife for the PC

— chimac.net — Some thoughtful suggestions. Also some other views of iLife. Click here to read. Tagged: ilife, PC, Sony... (more) iLife for the PC

iTunes

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One way to solve Adobe Licensing issue

— chimac.net — Sorry to see aht you have to reinstall the computer to get Adobe Licensing to work. Click... here to read. Tagged: Adobe, licensing, reinstall (more) One way to solve Adobe Licensing issue

Adobe

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Restoring Time Machine backups over SMB or AFP

— chimac.net — Great to see these instructions! If you follow this, it will work. Click here to read. Tagged:... AFP, SMB, Time Machine (more) Restoring Time Machine backups over SMB or AFP

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Fun with iLife 09. Is this your baby?

— chimac.net — Nice article about how iLife 09 and the faces feature entertained one lady. Click here to read... more why it might be worthwhile to buy. Tagged: baby, Faces, ilife (more) Fun with iLife 09. Is this your baby?

iLife

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10 Photo Printers to Enhance Your Holiday Memories

— chimac.net — Nice choices. Personally Canon seems to be the most cost effective according to Consumer Reports. Epson and... HP are great, but the ink cartridges are an arm and a leg. Click here to read more. Tagged: Canon, epson, HP, Photo printers (more) 10 Photo Printers to Enhance Your Holiday Memories

Canon

Epson

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The Enduring Value of Macs – Why use an older mac?

— chimac.net — Very thoughtful and touching article. Gives you the theory as well why people hang on to older... Macs. Click here to read. Tagged: Macs, older, philosophy, values (more) The Enduring Value of Macs – Why use an older mac?

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Six ways to watch movies on your Mac

— chimac.net — Another great article by Christopher. Lists some well known Internet and pay options. There are other illegal... options of course which I am glad he didn’t list. Click here to read. Tagged: Internet, Movies, options (more) Six ways to watch movies on your Mac

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iPhoto 09: Finding Missing Faces

— chimac.net — Nice suggestion! Click here to find an easy way to save face. Tagged: Faces, Finding, iPhoto... (more) iPhoto 09: Finding Missing Faces

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iPod dead (and brought back to life)

Published 17 hours ago by chimac at Chicago Mac/PC Support

This is a nice tale of a apparently dead iPod that was brought back to life. Click here to read how. Tagged: Disk Mode, iPod, restore

Mac

iPod

re-naming itouch back from repair

Published 17 hours ago by chimac at Chicago Mac/PC Support

Nice to know. In this thread Anna states “double click on the ipod name in itunes (when it is plugged in and appears on the left hand side) – you can change it there just like you would change the name of a playlist.” Thanks! Tagged: iPod Touch, rename, repair

Mac

iPod touch

iPod

Not able to edit event names in iCal

Published 18 hours ago by chimac at Chicago Mac/PC Support

After following the suggestions like trashing the ical prefs, removing duplicate fonts, he was able to get it to work. Click here to read more. Tagged: edit, event names, iCal

Mac

Can’t delete one file in trash. No error message.

Published 18 hours ago by chimac at Chicago Mac/PC Support

In this case it was boot camp. He ran a disk check on the partition where Windows was installed and it found some unrecoverable errors. After deleting them the error messages were gone. Click here to read more. Thanks planb77! Tagged: boot camp, error, trash

Mac

Snow Leopard

How to add a Windows SMB share to a Mac for generic printing

Published 18 hours ago by chimac at Chicago Mac/PC Support

Member PAHU in this post said “You may be able to work around the Add Printer issue by adding the Advanced menu to the Add Printer toolbar (control-click on the toolbar, select customize and drag the Advanced icon to the toolbar). If you then change the Type to Windows, you can enter the ...

Mac

Snow Leopard

iTunes remote not working with AVG?

Published 18 hours ago by chimac at Chicago Mac/PC Support

RedAndrew has the solution” In Firewall Settings>Applications change the settings for itunes and Apple Bonjour for windows to “allow for all” Now go to system services>Manage user system rules Add 2 rules on for protocol: TCP direction: both ways local port: 3689 ...

— chimac.net — Great list of suggestions. Worth doing before you reset the iPhone. Click here . Tagged: connection problems,... iPhone, wi-fi (more) How do I fix iPhone Wi-Fi connection problems?