On Computers

Pros and cons of iPad versus netbook or Kindle.
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Park’n Find from Affinicore is an iPhone app that helps you find your parked car.

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iYogi.net and Laplink’s PCMover will help you upgrade to Windows 7 from Windows XP.

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Companies are making computers without toxins.

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“Best iPhone Apps,” “iPhone, the Missing Manual,” and “My New iPhone”

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   Vreebit.com is a new social networking site that attempts to combine aspects of Facebook, LinkedIn, and other sites. Besides the usual photo sharing and job seeking, Vreebit members can conduct polls and create petitions directed to legislative and business leaders.  SafariToolbars.com lets Mac users have access to Google news, calendars, documents, language translations, stock prices, etc. You must have the Safari web browser.  Ban.org indentifies charities that claim to safely dispose of electronic waste when in reality they ship it to another country and just dump it.  

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Two students in the Business School at the University of Chicago have invented the iPhone Bump. It’s a free application you can download from the iTunes App Store.

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An editor alerted us to a problem Mac owners may have opening old files when they buy a new Mac or upgrade to the OS X operating system. They often find they can’t open documents created with Mac Write or Write Now. The solution, we found, is an $80 program from DataViz.com called MacLinkPlus 15. This gives Mac users the ability to convert PDF files to plain text, put documents on their iPods, and open e-mail attachments from PC users.

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Spymac.com -a community for Mac users. OnlineIdols.com offers prizes for videos of your singing, dancing, or playing an instrument.

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“The Cult of Mac” by Leander Kahney; $25 paperback, from www.nostarch.com. If you love your Mac, you’ll love this book. There are an estimated 25 million Mac users in the world, about 3 percent of all computers. It’s small as a percentage, but huge as a potential sales figure for this book.

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