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folklaur
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Posted: Dec 28 2007 at 6:04pm \| IP Logged

Okay, so I got my Mac Laptop quite awhile ago now. And I know it can do all these neat things - because I have heard other people talk about it! But, besides email & internet surfing....I am not using this thing to its full potential.

What fun things do you do with your mac? I heard Elizabeth mention calendars, I have heard others mention picture stuff....

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Posted: Dec 28 2007 at 7:00pm \| IP Logged

Yes, someone reply please. I also am in desperate need of software. On my Dell, I had Quicken and Word Perfect (and photo software) but I'm not sure what to buy for my Mac.
I didn't know about the calendar thing until Elizabeth mentioned it.

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Posted: Dec 28 2007 at 7:46pm \| IP Logged

I would love to know, too, because I am not liking my Macbook very much. Except for the notebook feature on Word for Mac, which I like a lot. But iPhoto doesn't support my camera and the mouse drives me insane. (This is what I get for buying a computer online without test-driving it first, I guess.)

How do you do the calendar thing?

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Posted: Dec 28 2007 at 8:03pm \| IP Logged

I've only had my Mac for about two weeks. I have not figured out how to do all the cool stuff either.

I want to get Mac For Dummies. I have this one MacBook for Dummies, but I think it is to complicated for me

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I have played with my pictures some and like that, but I have not figured out how to make the books and such. And I have not have any of the pictures I cropped and played around with printed yet.

If you have an Apple store near you, you can go in and take a class. I might do that. In our overpriced area it is $100.00 for an hour. I hope they can cram alot into an hour.

I did a google search for a recipe organizer for Macs and found one and downloaded it, it is freeware. It is not perfect but it will do the trick of getting all the recipes I print off the computer into one place.

The only software I purchased is the Word for Macs. My dh also bought me a mouse so I can use that instead of the touchpad.

I'm hoping for calendar lessons tomorrow, I'll let you know what I learn.

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Posted: Dec 28 2007 at 8:08pm \| IP Logged

This is hilarious. I don't have a Mac. Katherine and I spent hours and hours playing with Google Calendar. And it was really cool. But we were frustrated with the print version. Than, one day, she shot me a PDF file of my schedule as an iCalendar. She'd done it using iLife software on her Mac. I posted it here..
I've been wanting a Mac ever since.Sigh.

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