In support of a Mac workshop I thought I would gather together these resources and links in one place…
Apple Find Out How
- The Anatomy of a Mac and much, much more… getting started, wireless, customisation and other neat tricks
Web sites dedicated to the Mac…
- The Unofficial Apple Web Log
- Macworld ~ Mac Hints
- Macworld ~ Main
- MacCNN ~ Mac News
- Cult of Mac
- MacHeist ~ legendary app deals
- Lifehacker ~ Mac
- Macfixit
- OSX Daily
Installing OSX Lion ~ Mac World:
- Installing Lion ~ Our Complete Guide
- How to make a bootable Lion install disc or drive
- Create a bootable Lion install drive for newer Macs
- How to create an OS X Flash Drive Installer
Installing OSX Mountain Lion ~ Mac World:
- Installing Mountain Lion ~ Our Complete Guide
- How to make a bootable Mountain Lion install disc or drive
- Create a bootable Mountain Lion install drive for newer Macs
Multi touch gestures
Taking those screen shots
- Capturing the Mac Screen
- More screen capture tips… including how to change the file format of the screen shot (advanced users)
Maintenance Tools
Interesting & Useful Applications
- Amadeus Pro – Sound Editing
- App Zapper – Uninstall Applications
- Audacity* and MP3 plugin – Sound Editing
- Comic Life 2 – Comic creation & more
- Disk Aid – access and transfer files with your iPhone, iPod and iPad
- DropBox* – Cloud solution for your files
- Evernote* – Note taking and research tool
- Firefox* – An alternative to Safari
- Flare – Image Manipulation
- Google Chrome* – An alternative to Safari
- Google Earth* – Explore the planet
- Handbrake* – Rip DVDs and convert audio files
- Image Capture ~ already installed on your Mac
- MindNode Pro – Mind Mapping
- Pixelmator – Graphic and image processing
- Preview ~ already installed on your Mac
- Quicktime ~ already installed on your Mac
- Skitch 2.0* – Screen capture & annotation application
- Sound Studio – Sound Editing
- Transmission – Torrent downloading
- WireTap Studio – Audio capture
- WriteRoom – Distraction free writing
Some amazing games
Some other handy tools for your Mac
- QuickFile Renamer Lite ~ batch file renaming
- Perian ~ allows the Mac to play many different video file types*
- Flip4Mac ~ WMV Components for QuickTime*
- Sophos AntiVirus for Mac*
- Memory Clean ~ Free up random access memory on your Mac after it has been stolen by other applications
- Skitch ~ amazing screenshot and annotation tool*
- Handbrake ~ Rip DVD and convert video files so that they will play on iPhones, iPads and other mobile devices*
- Gemini ~ Clean up those annoying, identical duplicate files
- What Size ~ Find those large files that are taking up space on your Mac
- My friend Siva’s nicely annotated list of Mac apps…
* Free
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