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Handy iPhone Apps For Staying Connected

If you are like me, you’ve got to live in a mixed OS environment, at home is Mac and at work is Windows. And, you’ve got an iPhone or iPad which works great with Mac, but doesn’t play quite so nice in a corporate environment. Here are some great apps for [...]

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Amazon taking pre-orders for Snow Leopard NOW! $29

Amazon has Snow Leopard Mac OS X version 10.6 (the upgrade to Leopard) available for pre-order on its sites for $29. Their Free-Shipping option works even to Hawaii! Hey, it’s either this or Windows 7, which one are you going to choose!

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Slick Mac deals on now

Here are three nice Mac deals going on right now:
1) all of Panic‘s software is 50% off including Coda, a web developer tool similar to Dreamweaver, and CandyBar, to customize your Mac.  Sale ends 11:59 PM (PDT) May 29th.  Details HERE.
2) Macupdate Promo has a terrific bundle deal on now: over 10 great Mac apps [...]

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MacSpringfest: How to have a great time and what to expect

May 23rd, 2009, HMAUS is putting on their annual MacSpringfest. This year will be at JAIMS in Hawaii Kai (Google maps). There is plenty of parking and lots of activities planned, so you can stay for the day or as long as you can. The event is FREE — though [...]

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2009 HMAUS MacSpringFest

Join HMAUS Saturday May 23rd from 9 – 4pm as we present our MacSpringfest at JAIMS (6660 Hawaii Kai Drive). Plenty of great speakers, ono food, and a camera and computer swapmeet by the Professional Photographers of Hawaii and HMAUS, just to name a few…
Place your lunch orders HERE — Order yours NOW to make [...]

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Mozy: Secondary Backups Made Simple

Backing up your data is a very wise thing to do. Hard drives fail, files and folders get deleted accidentally, and sometimes you just can’t remember where you put something any more. I recommend a two-layer backup plan. Your first layer is to have an external drive connected to [...]

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LastPass: Free password syncing for PC/Mac

If you visit lots of websites, you’ve probably started to accumulate a LOT of passwords for each site. For security reason, you should have SEPARATE passwords for each site. (Else, if someone learns that one password of yours, they could access any other site you visit. Not secure.) Also, these [...]

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Evernote: Syncing Your Notes (and Files) Wherever

Man, I like this product! Evernote is like Yojimbo with tentacles, “Tako Yojimbo”. Let me explain. Evernote is like a journal that you can type in, paste in, add screen shots, even drop files into, and it will sync those across multiple platforms. Evernote is available [...]

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Dropbox: Easy, Free File Syncing Between PC/Mac

I’m someone who works in both the PC and Mac worlds. My home machine is a Mac. But at work I (have to) use a PC. There are plenty of times when I need to share files easily between machines. Not only share, but SYNC the files.

Dropbox allows [...]

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Targus File Share Cable: drag & drop

The Targus File Share Cable allows 2 Macs or a Mac and PC to share files. It has a large USB connector on one end for the destination computer and small USB connector on the other end for the remote computer. After plugging in the cable, Easy Suite’s EasyMacCopy software icon appears on each desktop. [...]

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