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Should You Buy AppleCare for your New Apple Device?

Should You Buy AppleCare for your New Apple Device?

What is AppleCare? Should you buy it for your new Apple device? Every Mac, iPod, and iPhone comes with a one year standard warranty, commonly known as AppleCare. This includes 90 days of telephone support and a full year replacement warranty for any hardware defects....

Change Your Modifier Keys

Change Your Modifier Keys

If you're a former PC user, you might find it helpful to change your modifier keys to more closely resemble what you're accustomed to on a PC keyboard. The Mac OS makes it very easy to change these keys to whatever you're comfortable with. To do this, first open your...

What’s Mission Control All About?

What’s Mission Control All About?

Lion's Mission Control brings together Exposé, Dashboard, Spaces and full-screen apps to provide one place to see and navigate everything running on your Mac. In Mac OS X Lion, Apple has merged the three into a single interface, called Mission Control. It offers an...

Apple Announces New iPad

Apple Announces New iPad

Today, Apple introduced its much-anticipated new iPad tablet, a beautiful device that features a sharper display and the ability to connect to the Internet on 4G broadband networks. The third-generation iPad starts at $499 and has retina display, 5-megapixel camera...

SoundMatters FoxL v2 Bluetooth Speaker

SoundMatters FoxL v2 Bluetooth Speaker

We here at Austin MacWorks love the FoxL V2 Bluetooth Speaker.  What amazing sound from such a small package! Made by SoundMatters, this amazing little device belts out sound from smart phones, tablets, laptops, gaming and more. We like the Bluetooth version, but...

The Super Bowl Ad That Launched the Macintosh

The Super Bowl Ad That Launched the Macintosh

Do you remember the famous Super Bowl ad that launched the Macintosh in 1984? The commercial aired on January 22, 1984, during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII (Los Angeles Raiders beat the Washington Redskins). The ad, which went on to win numerous awards, is...

The First Macintosh

The First Macintosh

Remember the first Macintosh, released in January 1984? We thought we'd just offer you a few tidbits about this groundbreaking machine. This Macintosh didn't have a model number—it was simply the Macintosh. There was no name on the front. Early 128Ks simply said...

iPad 3 Features

iPad 3 Features

Apple iPad is the definition of awesomeness, right? And even more awesome is that we are right on the cusp of the release of the latest incarnation of this amazing tablet, iPad3, which analysts predict will happen in March, or April at the latest. Rumors are swirling...

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