Leave Your Mac On Or Turn It Off?

One of the oldest unresolved controversies in the computer world is: Should you leave your computer on all the time, or turn it off when it is not in use?

Compelling arguments have been made on both sides. Ill try to sum up the important points on either side, and Ill even give you my recommendation, but ultimately, its up to you.

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5 Ways to Work Faster With Your Mac

Increase your productivity with your Mac computer.

In this article you’ll learn five great tips to help you work more effectively with Mac OS X.

We all want to save time when working, and there are hundreds of ways you can work more effectively with your Mac computer.

Here are just a few:

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Your Mac and Your Kids

For some Mac fans reading this, their Mac is almost like their child.

However, for those of us who have both children and Macs, we have to take responsibility for educating and protecting our children on the computer. This was never made clearer to me than one late night a few months back.

My daughter was upstairs on her computer and my wife and I were downstairs watching a movie. First my daughter called down asking for her mothers birth date. Then, two minutes after getting the answer, she called down and asked for the year. I asked my daughter why she needed to know. She replied, just asking.

Her mother shouted the answer before I could stop her. I paused the movie and said, we have to go see what our girl is up to, because I had a suspicion she was giving out my wifes information online. We were met on the stairs by an ecstatic ten year old that told us she had just won a free pizza. All she had to do was give them all her moms personal information.

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