Year: 2009

Snow Leopard video training course now available from The MacU

Mac OS X Snow Leopard Overview, a video training course, is now
available at the The MacU. This video training course contains over
three hours of HD training videos covering everything from file and
folder basics to how to use applications like Mail, Safari, iCal and
more.

The videos are presented in HD and the course also includes a
searchable course contents PDF. Go to the MacU web site
(http://www.TheMacU.com) to learn more and view several free lessons.

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TechSmith announces public beta of Snagit for the Mac

TechSmith Corp., a provider of screen capture and recording
solutions, has released a public beta of Snagit for Mac. It’s an app
for turning screenshots into visual communication tools.

Individuals who want to take part in the public beta can download
Snagit for Mac by visiting http://www.techsmith.com/snagitmac/ .

“When we released Camtasia for Mac earlier this year, we were
reminded once again just how much the Mac community also wants to see
Snagit on the platform,” says Tiffany Wood, Snagit product manager at
TechSmith.

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iFixit licensing all repair manuals for free under Creative

Effective immediately, iFixit (http://www.ifixit.com) is licensing
all its repair manuals under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.

“To our knowledge, this is the largest free release of repair
documentation ever,” says iFixit CEO Kyle Mike Wiens. “W are
committing to make our repair manuals available to everyone in the
world, forever, for free. My team has invested thousands of hours
documenting how to repair Apple hardware.

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OWC offers memory upgrades for 2009 Mac Pro quad-core models

Other World Computing (http://www.macsales.com)
has announced third party 32GB 1066MHz DDR3 ECC
memory upgrade for all Mac Pro quad-core Pro
models, including the newest 3.33GHz model
announced by Apple earlier this month.

OWC memory upgrades offer all Mac Pro users up to
double the original factory memory with kits of
up to 32GB for all Mac Pro dual-core, quad-core,
and 8-core Models.

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