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MacTips History

Between about 1999 and 2004 I wrote a weekly Tip for people using Qualcomm’s Eudora for email on Macs — that’s 300 Tips.

Meanwhile, somewhere around 2001 I started writing weekly Tips about Macs in general. September 2009 marked the publication of MacTip #400 — that’s about 8 years’ worth of Tips.

Between the two sets of Tips I’ve written around 700 Tips in the last 10 years, or about 350,000 words — that’s equal to around 5 novels!

MacTips now includes other Apple products too, such as iPhones and iPods.

About me — Miraz Jordan

I’m Miraz Jordan.

In 2003 I was selected as an Exceptional Adult Educator of the Year as part of a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) initiative.

That initiative was Adult Learner’s Week, designed to celebrate the efforts, achievements and contributions of adult learners, educators and providers, and to promote the importance of adult learning to the wider community.

I’ve spent most of my life as a teacher or trainer. For 15 years or more I supported Mac users, and people new to the Internet. These days my focus is on writing, and on WordPress, software for making websites.

My writing repertoire includes hundreds of Tips for using the Mac, more than 100 tutorials, reviews and other articles, including Newbies Guides and the PowerUp series for New Zealand’s Macguide Magazine magazine (no longer in production).

My KnowIT blog has a couple of thousand entries. I also write the monthly CommunityNet Tip and Website Tip for CommunityNet Aotearoa Panui.

In 2006, together with Maria Langer, I wrote WordPress 2 (Visual QuickStart Guide). In 2006 and 2007 I created the NZ Webguide (versions 1 and 2), a guide for community groups.

Most recently I’ve created a series of ebooks for WordPress users, and a couple of websites for dog-lovers: Run Spot Run and The Dog Lobby.

I enjoy watching and reading sci-fi, reading and listening to material about science and technology, and am reawakening an old love of astronomy. Sometimes my camera makes good photos, in spite of me. I love my Mac computers, my partner, our three cats and two dogs, and living in New Zealand. Not necessarily in that order.

My iName is =miraz.