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Welcome to My First Mac’s Q&A column. It is said that Macs are easier to use, but they are still complex in their own right. Here are a few questions we have received lately from readers like you. Sometimes we reformat the questions for clarity and presentation. This week we have a series of questions […]

Update for Snow Leopard (2/2010): To set up Windows file sharing: Choose Apple menu > System Preferences and click Sharing. Select File Sharing in the list, then click Options. Select “Share files and folders using SMB.” Select the checkbox next to the user account that will be used to share files with Windows users, enter […]

Congratulations, you got a new Mac! It’s an exciting and hopefully transformative event for you. If all goes well, you’ll go from being irritated by PCs to enjoying your new Mac, doing things with it that you never expected to do. Use this article as a way to get pointed in the right direction when […]

I’ve been trying to get every last month out of my 7 year old 15″ PowerBook G4 but it’s been not starting for me lately. I’ve already had power issues when I cracked it open myself to do a repair and broke a connector. Whoops! So now the power will cut out if I press […]

I only recently upgraded to iLife ’09 after seeing how inexpensive it is on Amazon. The thing I look forward to the most in all the iLife upgrades is the new themes for the slideshows, movies, books, and calendars. I think one of the things that really separate Mac users from PC users is that […]

Welcome to My First Mac’s Q&A column. It is said that Macs are easier to use, but they are still complex in their own right. Here are a few questions we have received lately from readers like you. Sometimes we reformat the questions for clarity and presentation. This week Chris answers your questions about ejecting […]