Apple Mac and iPhone news for New Zealanders

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The home of Mac info for New Zealanders, mac-nz serves daily Mac, iPhone and related news from the world of Apple Inc.

For reviews, tips, advice and interviews of new Apple and related hardware and software, take a look at the Newsletter section.

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About this site

mac.nz is owned by Mark Webster, an experienced writer and IT commentator with articles published over the years in Monitor, Stamp, Loose, Macguide, Tone, Maximum Rock ’n’ Roll, D-photo, NZ Classic Car, The Dominion Post, NetGuide, NZ Herald online and for PC World. He is also a director of the CreativeTech conference.

He was the editor of NZ Macguide magazine for five years and has worked exclusively with Macs for 20.

Mark is the author of the NZ history book Assembly: NZ Car Production 1921-1998 (Reed Books, 2002).

He is a speaker on Information Technology and automotive, historical and Apple subjects, and works as a Mac trainer with wide experience. Mark has dispensed Apple knowledge at Natcoll, to MAINZ, for ImageText, to 3Media, MacMillan Publishing and for Microsoft, and to dozens of individuals.

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Widget reminder – Apple added a Dashboard widget feature for you to tailor to keep track of sites in Safari. To use this on mac.nz, go to the front page in Safari, choose Open in Dashboard from the File menu, drag the marquee that appears over the top item in the news, drag the corners to customise and press your Enter key. Now at a press of F12 (or whatever you use to launch Dashboard widgets) you can asses the latest item added to the news page. (Of course, you can use this method for any sites you like to keep an eye on.)

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[Picture Credit – detail from Apple's desktop Snow Leopard picture.]