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Creating a web clip widget using Safari

Mac has this aweasome dashboard, and you can customize it to your own needs.
In a previous tutorial I showed you how to install a widget. In this tutorial we are going to take a look on how to create a web clip using safari.
The web clip allows us to view anything from the web onto your dashboard!

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Burning a .DMG image to CD/DVD

Mac uses .DMG files to extract programs from, you can drag the application inside right into your application folder.
But what if you want to save your .DMG to use it again in the future? Well we can use our Disk Utility to burn our image onto a CD or DVD.

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Installing new dashboard widgets

The famous Mac dashboard has some great default widgets, but there are so much more! So in this tutorial i will show you where to get new widgets, how to install them and configuring them. These widgets are extremely handy and reduce time to do something, for example you can listen to the radio instantly.

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Updating your Mac OS X Software

Although Mac is the perfect operating system, it does require updates in order to make your system run even beter than before. Using Mac OS X Software update you can easily see the newest updates, and install them. It will only take a few clicks and you are up to date! So check out this tutorial if you don’t know how to use this feature.

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Rotating the desktop background

Apple Inc. has created a wonderfull background system that allows you to display many things on your Desktop background.

Your Mac comes with many default high resolution wallpapers that look awesome! But what if you want them all on your desktop?

Well, its posible, the desktop settings have some nice features, in this case rotating the image once in a while, so lets find out how we can do that.

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Configuring Mail for the first time

When you bought your Mac, the first thing you do is setup your email, because you need to stay in contact with your family, friends and your work ofcourse.

In this step by step tutorial i will show you how to setup your email account for the first time. So if you are planning to buy a Mac or do have one but never tried mail? Then check out this tutorial.

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3 must have free applications

There are allot of free apps around the web, many of them are great, some of them not.
I would like to share a few great apps that i use on my Mac. These apps might not be usefull for everyone, but you never know, it might be a app you have been looking for forever.

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Enabling & configuring file sharing

Mac offers file sharing, this means other users from other computers can access your Mac to add, edit or delete files. You can share different folders and set custom permissions for them. So in this article i will show you how to enable file sharing and how to add new folders to share and setting up permissions for them.

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