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This Archive contains hundreds of practical Tips for using Macintosh computers and other Apple products such as the iPod. I add a new Tip each week.
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History
Between about 1999 and 2004 I wrote a weekly Tip for those 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. As of May 2008 we’re up to about 340 pure Mac Tips.
For even more Mac tips and tricks, visit my blog.
About the photos
Update, April 2008: the photos have moved from the header to the sidebar and new images have been brought in. At the moment there are only about 12 photos being used.
Some images may have been captured with a Sony Ericsson K800i 3 Megapixel cameraphone. I haven’t yet updated the album to reflect these changes.
Original info: There are about 30 photos that appear in the header for this site. They are all photos I’ve taken in New Zealand. My current camera is a Canon EOS 400D digital single lens reflex, though some older photos may have been taken with other cameras. See captions for all the images at my header images album.
About me - Miraz Jordan
I’m Miraz Jordan. I run my own businesses, MacTips.info and FirstBite, in Wellington, New Zealand. My business focus is on plain language writing, for websites and print.
I’m a writer with a solid repertoire, including 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 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 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 believe that we can all use technology such as computers and the Internet to bring change into the world, improving ourselves, others and this planet, our only home in the universe.
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.
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