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    Graphics/drawing Program For Imac

    Preview comes with your Mac. Look under the Tools menu and you should see all you want.
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    Let's Stop The Non-replaceable Ram Setups In Macs

    The fatter the user, the thinner the gadget has to be. Apple is just restoring a natural balance, or the Earth will tilt over and we'll all slide off!
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    What Is A Good App For Learning German?

    Just get yourself a German girlfriend.
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    What's Happened To Pages In Yosemite?

    May as well have been! :(
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    Ripping Dvds To Itunes Yosemite With Handbrake?

    Have you installed/updated VLC? The two go together.
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    Official Yosmite Thread! :)

    I've noticed the beachball on wake, as well as just how much longer Yosemite takes to shut down. Almost as bad as Windows now.
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    Crotchety Old Man

    Yep! I'm right up there with you. It's due to Apple having to pretend they've made another Great Leap Forward every year. Mainly by moving the furniture around and constantly changing the curtains. Trying to detail just how many extra steps everything takes and just how many of those steps are...
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    iWork '13 has just been updated

    iWork '13 has just been updated Apple has issued the first update to its unpopular update to the iWork suite for Maverick. Users have been flooding Apple's Pages forums with complaints about the over 90 features that were removed from Pages alone. Simultaneously Apple removed ALL the...
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    DVD Ripper

    I have just RIPed my entire (>400) DVD collection to Hard Drive. The old MacTheRipper/Handbrake workflow worked in its day. Not very reliably but it muddled through, sometimes. My bulletproof and very efficient workflow is to now RIP with MDRP3 (Mac DVDRipper Pro) using Insert/RIP/Eject. I...
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    Hard Drive Failing- How to use External?

    Back up immediately. If you get the chance do 2 back-ups. 1. With Carbon Copier (or Time Machine) to make an image of the installation including your system. Hang on to this for a few months until you are certain there is nothing you are missing. 2. A second as a straight copy of all your data...
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    Moving Toward Next Desktop Paradigm

    Decision process: Is Steve, Is good!
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    Another mac freezing/stalling

    Boot up off your Startup DVD holding down the 'd' key (for diagnostics). Run the tests and report the results to Apple. I too had problems with SL and an iMac, as have my sons. I find it hard to believe when Apple told me SL dramatically cut their support calls. My experience suggests it has...
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    Moving Toward Next Desktop Paradigm

    Whilst there are some features in OSX that are improvements there is a wide swathe of unnecessary complexity and bewildering obscurity. For all its tendency to bomb occasionally the Classic Mac OS was more transparent and logical. OSX particularly suffers from hidden interfaces and a...
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    best programme for .doc documents?

    You may find this site useful: http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=47&mforum=iworktipsntrick
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    Moving Toward Next Desktop Paradigm

    Ahhhh BeOS! Now there was an OS!
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    Is Apple overcharging non US customers?

    Things are afoot: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/apple-using-market-power-to-gouge-aussie-itunes-users-20110221-1b1nq.html I'll be throwing my shoes soon at Steve Jobs on screen. If you think I wouldn't, this iMac which is a replacement for my original iMac is now itself...
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    Is Apple overcharging non US customers?

    Heaven forbid that any American institution would be nationally narcissistic, and self absorbed. … and that our know-nothing, lazy, stupid, self-centered, self-absorbed, oblivious Conservative Government did what it always does and bent over and said go for it. So Apple and every American...
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    Is Apple overcharging non US customers?

    That misses the problem of discriminatory pricing. Apple refuses to sell the identical product from their US store if you do not live in the USA. We unfortunately have a generation now that offers no resistance to price. Many are probably totally unaware of how much they are charged or even...
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    Is Apple overcharging non US customers?

    None that I know of. I don't expect total parity, but the egregious mark up is so over the top. One thing we really are aware of, is that most US companies are ruthless. They make a big deal of cheap flattery but you count your fingers after every handshake. Down to the funeral company...
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