Born at a time when people assumed desktop computers were all about text, the primarily visual Macintosh is marking its 25th anniversary on a mostly high note with some of its best-ever sales and influence beyond just desktop computers.

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When working with Leopard on laptops, make sure to consider the realities of older units with less space and/or small solid state drives. Leopard typically clocks in at over 8GB for a typical install.

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When did you get your very first computer?

This is a great question: when I was 39 years old, over 21 years ago in 1987. That was the time when mainly businesses had computers, not people at home.

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A free .Mac service could be nothing more than a loss leader designed to sell Macs and iPhones.

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Macs may be more expensive, and Mac users more elitist (ahem), but blind Apple loyalty aside, there are a number of neat features bundled into your Mac that make it super useful and fun.

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Is your life being eased by your computer or more complicated?

I became acquainted with the computer nearly twenty years ago when I bought a basic Mac to help me run my small business.

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I've been using Leopard, the latest OS X issue, for the last five months now and was interested in hearing your thoughts and experiences of it, as well as sharing mine.

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Yippeeee!!....I'm in Love

I think I'm in love...I, who have never had any time for adverts of any kind, who believe they are pesky, interfering things I can easily do without, am in love with the adverts by Apple Mac. They are just brilliant and are saturated everywhere.

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An interactive table and chairs that can change colour has been developed by Japanese researchers. On display at the Siggraph show, the Fuwapica furniture uses sensors embedded in the table-top to work out the colour of items placed upon it.

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Zen Internet has announced today that it has won the 'Best Mac-Friendly ISP' at the Macworld Awards held in Gibson Hall in London last night. Nominations for the award are submitted by readers of Macworld. That's my ISP .....

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Should .Mac be an Open ID provider?

If you haven't heard much about Open ID, you might be missing out. In a nutshell, it provides a way for you to have one ID that you can use to sign in a to a variety of websites or services. Basically, you sign in using an Open ID URL which will let you control your ID.

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Development of Mac OS X 10.5 is wrapping up faster than many at Apple even anticipated, and at present, a release can be expected as early as late March, sources say.

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Yesterday, Adium, a popular multi-protocol instant message client, finally hit version 1.0, and I'm very happy to say that the result of six years of hard work came out great. Wow, do I love Adium.

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Apple's launch of iWork '07 next week is expected to be touted as one of the company's more significant product launches of the year, most notably due to the addition of a new spreadsheet application.

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Connect360, the software that allows you to stream songs and photos from your Mac to your XBOX 360, reached version 2.0 on Monday. It's out of beta status now and costs $15, but let me tell you fellow Mac-loving-XBOX-360-fans, it's worth it and more.

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I really hate to see things like this happen (because, as a software developer myself I actually like to get paid when people use my product - and last time I checked, you can't just purchase a copy of 10.4.4 for Intel in the store) on one hand and on the other, it generates more

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New Rumors About the Macworld EXPO: Maybe new notebooks.

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