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About Macs: Steve Jobs Takes Leave of Absence

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From Tom Nelson, your Guide to Macs
This week started off with the news that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is taking another leave of absence for health reasons. The news not only affected Mac enthusiasts, but also quickly reverberated through the stock markets of the world. Reaction to the news led to a nearly 5% drop in value before the opening bell of the New York Stock Market on Tuesday morning.

We have new reviews of iLife '11, iPhoto '11, and iMovie '11, in case you're thinking about picking up the suite or one of the individual applications. (iPhoto and iMovie are now available in the Mac App Store for $19.95 each.)

We also posted a guide to sharing a Windows 7 printer with your Mac. Printer sharing is usually pretty easy, but Windows 7 makes the process much more difficult than it needs to be. If you have a printer hooked up to your Windows 7 PC, this guide will show you how to share the printer with your Mac.


Share Your Windows 7 Printer With Your Mac
Sharing your Windows 7 printer with your Mac is a great way to economize on computing costs for your home, home office, or small business. By using one of several possible printer sharing techniques, you can allow multiple computers to share a single printer, and use the money you would have spent on another printer for something else, say a new iPad... Read more
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Review: iLife '11: A Nearly Perfect Software Suite
iPhoto is a consumer-oriented photo editor that makes it easy to manage and share a large collection of photos. It has basic image editing tools for adjusting contrast and color saturation, zapping red eye, cropping, and jazzing up images with special effects. You can use iMovie to whip your home movies into shape, as well as add audio and special effects. iDVD simplifies the process of creating DVDs of your photos and movies. iWeb is basic web design software suitable for creating simple web sites... Read more

Review: iPhoto '11: Apple's Consumer-Oriented Image Editor
Considering it's been two years since the last version of iPhoto, we expected iPhoto '11 to wow us more than it did. It's still one of the best and most user-friendly image editing programs available, but with the exception of some user interface enhancements, most of the changes revolve around printing and sharing photos... Read more

Nominate Your Favorite Mac Software
It's time to nominate your favorite Mac application or product for the Readers' Choice Awards 2011. About: Macs is participating for the second year in a row, and we're accepting nominations in 7 categories.

Nominations will be accepted until 11:59 PM February 4th, 2011. But don't wait till the last minute, get your nominations in now!

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