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Book Review: My New Mac, Lion Edition – a good guide for newbies

Wallace Wang’s book My New Mac, Lion Edition is an ideal gift for someone who has a new Mac with Lion and who needs a friendly guide to how to use it. It’s written for those new to computers, new to Lion or new to the Mac itself.

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How to straighten photos in iPhoto

If you need to straighten up a photo, for example to make the horizon horizontal, iPhoto can do it in a trice. Here’s how.

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Choose what opens when you plug in an iPhone

If iPhoto opens up when you plug in your iPhone, here’s how Mac users can change that behaviour.

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How (not) to make screenshots on an iPhone

Translucent stripes on the iPhone. I took a screenshot of an empty screen!

Mystified by some of the images in the photo album on your iPhone or iPod touch? Perhaps you’ve accidentally made some screenshots. Find out what happens.

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