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Growl for Mac keeps you notified

Growl for Mac keeps you notified

Growl for Mac notifies you when friends come online, files finish downloading and several other tasks, without you ever having to leave the program.

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Fun with the Mac motion sensor

Fun with the Mac motion sensor

Liquidmac uses the Sudden Motion Sensor function of your laptop to fill the screen with simulated liquid.

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The ultimate guide to Mac keyboard shortcuts

The ultimate guide to Mac keyboard shortcuts

This guide shows all the tricks to let your fingers do the walking around your Mac.

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Macs get crypto key to government budgets

Macs get crypto key to government budgets

Macs are a step closer to being accepted in government agencies, which usually require a full-disk encryption tool to protect sensitive data, after Check Point announced Pointsec for Apple's Leopard and Tiger operating systems.

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Apple missing golden .Mac opportunity

Apple missing golden .Mac opportunity

Its price tag may scare off some Mac users, but .Mac could be used to sell hardware if the price &mdash and features &mdash were right.

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Times Reader headed to the Mac

Times Reader headed to the Mac

The New York Times is bringing its e-reader desktop application to the Mac so users will now be able to read, browse and search the entire publication while offline.

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Stolen Mac helps nab burglary suspects

Stolen Mac helps nab burglary suspects

A remote desktop access feature found in some Macintoshes is being credited with leading police to two suspects in the burglary of an apartment in New York.

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Times: The newspaper newsreader for Mac

Times: The newspaper newsreader for Mac

Times is a Mac OS newsreader with a clever layout that lets you turn your newsfeeds into a fully customisable newspaper layout. It's cool, but it's not free.

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Apple gives iMac chips a boost

Apple gives iMac chips a boost

Apple has released a new iMac that features a faster processor and an option for a souped-up graphics chip.

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Make flawless screencasts on your Mac

Make flawless screencasts on your Mac

ScreenFlow software makes it easy to capture all the action that takes place on your desktop so you can view it as a movie.

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Peering into Apple's future

Peering into Apple's future

Following a blockbuster first quarter driven by the Mac, here's a look at each segment of the company's business and what might lie in store.

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Apple unveils 'world's thinnest notebook'

Apple unveils 'world's thinnest notebook'

Apple unveiled its ultraportable MacBook Air, the world's thinnest notebook according to CEO Steve Jobs, during his keynote speech at Macworld 2008 on Tuesday in San Francisco.

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The secure Mac: myth or legend? Part II

The secure Mac: myth or legend? Part II

Here is part two of David Braue's look at whether the Mac is really more secure than other PC operating systems. (Part one is here.)

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The secure Mac: myth or legend? Part I

The secure Mac: myth or legend? Part I

CNET.com.au has this story from David Braue which looks at the question of whether the Mac is really more secure than other PC operating systems. This is part one:

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How-to: Stream media to a PS3 from a Mac

How-to: Stream media to a PS3 from a Mac

With the advent of the next-generation consoles like Sony's PS3 and Microsoft's XBOX360 there has been a surge in interest in the usage of media streaming capabilities these consoles offer for its users. In the first of a two-part series we'll endeavour to explore free alternatives to achieving this with a Mac acting as the media streaming server.

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