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Text to Speech Reads PDF and RSS
Computerized speech now allows for the reading of PDF documents, RSS feeds and emails via Apple's OSX operating systems.
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Hazel and TextExpander Software
Older productivity applications organised your life. Now a new approach to productivity focuses on simply rationalising your work flow by cutting out repetitive tasks.
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Alternatives to Apple's Front Row
Unlike Apple´s Front Row, iTheatre, XHub and MediaCentral are offering compatibility with older machines and more choice for playing media content on a Macintosh.
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Mac Computer Relaxation Programs
Every day, computer users have to process ever greater amounts of digital data. Notifiers, relaxation sounds and energisers can help cope with this information overload.
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Blog from your Desktop
Posting to various blogs and uploading images to different accounts used to be time-consuming and tiring, but with Mars Edit it is now easy and fast.
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Mac Mini Updated to Core Duo2
Just when everyone believed that the life of the Mac mini was over, Apple releases a newer, faster and better valued version of this popular desktop computer.
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Fast Image Editors for the Mac
If you need to simply re-size, crop or add text to an image and find Adobe Elements too large and cumbersome, then take a look at Acorn and Image Well.
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Internet TV on Your Computer
With over 2300 channels to choose from, Internet TV has at last arrived and the access point for this new media is a program called Miro.
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The Art of Taking a Break
Computer related illnesses, such as RSI, are the result of poor working practices. These programs will keep you healthy and increase your productivity at the same time.
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Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor
Typing Tutors have previously been dull and uninspiring, but with Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor learning to touch type can productive as well as fun.
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How to Keep your Laptop Cool
Each year as laptops gets thinner and our planet gets hotter, over-heating becomes a real danger. Here are three cheap solutions for keeping your laptop cool
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When Macs Crash
When a recent software update provoked a minor disk failure, many Mac users had no idea how to run a simple disk repair service. Here are eight steps to a healthy disk.
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Google Tools for the Mac
Google´s Gmail, Blogger, Picasa and Desktop Search are now making Apples .mac account look expensive and unnecessary.
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Introduction to Mac OSX Leopard
Leopard promises to be more than just an upgrade: It could be defining personal computer use for the decade ahead.
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Productivity Tools for the Mac
New software for the Mac based on the principles of GTD, promises to offer powerful tools that could transform how we manage our daily activities.
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ETA Declares End to Cease Fire
One year later and the negotiations are over. ETA declares a return to the struggle, whilst the President laments and the opposition calls for an early election in Spain.
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How to Customise Firefox
Firefox provides a series of tools that can turn your web browsing into an efficient and very customisable experience.
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Learning a Language with the iPod
With an iPod and a selection of simple programs, it is now possible to recreate a language learning environment almost anywhere.
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Buying a Second Home in Spain
If you know where to look, Spain continues to offer sound investment opportunities in rural and inland areas.
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How to Organize Your Email
Whatever your email program, emails have an disorganising influence These 3 steps will help you awake each morning to a clean and fresh Inbox.
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Spain and the politics of terror
As the Madrid bombing trial reveals new evidence, questions are asked about the conduct of the last Government and its politics onthe use of terror
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Greenpeace report on Spain
A new report issued this week highlights the environmental resources available to this country of sun and sea.
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iPhoto Tricks and Add-ons
I-Photo has its limitations, but awareness of these can help in overcoming them and, in some cases, superseding the basic functions of this essential Apple image program
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Semana Santa Fiesta in Spain
Steer clear of the textbook examples of Holy Week in Spain if you want to see something other than a public show.
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Simple Web Design on the Mac
Web design on the Mac is not so simple as we are told. The bundled software in the I-life suite has some serious restrictions. But then so too has the competition.
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The Peace Process in Spain
With local elections looming, the crisis in the negotiations for peace reaches a climax with the threatened criminalisation of the Batasuna political party.
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