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Make the most of your Mac, here you will find the essential guide to solve your Mac problems.

Here you will find an essential guide to Mac with tips and hints to help you the Mac user get the most out of your Mac. We will be giving you the know how from the use of short cut keys to optimising the performance for your machine and also the upgrading of your Macs. If there are any questions on Mac please post in the "ask a question" section and we will endeavor to answer them. We will also recommend some interesting reads on the subject of Mac, this week we recommend 3 books the first is the essential support book, the second is for video professionals, an interesting book to make the most out Apple's Final cut pro and Adobe's creative suite and finally for the Mac enthusiast "The cult of Mac" showing how far Mac users go with their brand loyalty. This weeks video is for Mac Mini users and how to open and upgrade the ram modules.

Mac tips & hints.

More tips to come next week!

Mac-Tech1 / Your Mac, Your Battery. For MacBook and MacBook Pro users, to check the battery status hold down the alt key and select the battery icon on the top right of your screen this will add another item on the drop down menu. This item will tell you the condition of the battery. The battery is either "Normal", "Replace soon" or Replace now". To increase the time you get out of the battery try turing the brightness down of your screen, turning off your bluetooth and wireless when not needed.
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2/ For all video editors, the use of the internal hard drives when editing video will slow the Mac down as it is trying to write video files to the drive already being used running the OS. Improve performance by using an external drive or second hard drive ( called a scratch disk) for only the video file. G- technology has fast reliable external drives for video editing, sound recording even on the go, G-RAIDS and G-RAIDS mini are some great drives to use. www.g-technology.com

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3/ This tip shows you how to stop apps from opening automatically at login.

a: Open system preferences from the apple menu.
b: Select Accounts and select the closed lock on the bottom left this allows you to edit the account settings.
c: Select the login items tab.
d: Highlight an application listed in the box that you do not want and click the minus button below to remove it from the list.

It will now not open at login.

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This weeks essential Mac reading.

Here are some titles the creative professional will find interesting.
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Upgrade instructions.

This week - Upgrade your Mac Mini

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Where to buy.

Here is a list of Mac Retailers.

Apple - www.apple.com

Galway
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www.screenway.ie Screenway. Galway Business Park, Dangan, Galway. Phone 091 584924
www.galmac.com GalMac Computers. Liosban Business Park, Tuam Rd, Galway. Phone 091 755222

Limerick / Dublin / Cork
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www.compub.com Compub. The Old Stables, Mungret College, Limerick Phone 1850 668888 / Dublin 015079101 / Cork 021 6011301

Belfast
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The Apple Store Upper Ground Floor, 1 Victoria Square, Belfast, BT1 4QG Phone 0044 (0)28 9016 1900

Apple's hot news

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Website pick of the week

www.macrumors.com

white iPhoneThe website we want to look at this week is www.macrumours.com, it is a website with "Apple news and rumors with user contribution and commentary." It has buyer's guides, pages dedicated to the iPhone and of course pages of rumors. It is first with breaking news and rumors that gets the Apple community talking. www.macrumors.com

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