January article from CJRTOOLS

Social Networking with Your Mac
Claire J Rottenberg
CJRTOOLS ebooks
Social networking is one of the hottest topics in the computer and Internet field today. It refers to online communities where people share and interact with friends and colleagues, often developing new relationships. Social networking first became popular with MySpace, a youth-oriented network, but there are now many [...]

November article from CJR Tools

Learning with iTunes
Claire J Rottenberg
CJRTOOLS ebooks
Although iTunes is an excellent application for organizing music and video files, it is really much more than that. iTunes, in combination with the iTunes store, can be a great tool for learning. Using podcasts, iTunes U and audiobooks, you can broaden your knowledge on a vast array of topics, [...]

October article from CJR Tools

Strengths and Weaknesses of Time Machine
by Claire J Rottenberg
CJRTOOLS ebooks
Like many other Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) users, I use Time Machine for backing up data. As good as Time Machine is, however, it is not perfect and probably should not be the only backup option you use. In this article, I describe some of [...]

Is MobileMe Worth the Money?

Is MobileMe Worth the Money?
by Claire J Rottenberg
CJRTOOLS ebooks
If you’re not a subscriber to Apple’s online service, MobileMe, you might be wondering if the service would be right for you. Or maybe you are a subscriber and you’re not sure if you should renew your subscription. In this article, I briefly describe the main MobileMe [...]

Alternative Backup Options to Time Machine

Alternative Backup Options to Time Machine
by Claire J Rottenberg
CJRTOOLS ebooks
If you use Leopard, you may be leaving all your backup tasks to Time Machine. With Time Machine, backing up can be mindless, but Time Machine has its limitations and it’s not necessarily the best backup option for all Leopard users or for all backup tasks. [...]

The Joys of Quick Look

The Joys of Quick Look
by Claire J Rottenberg
CJRTOOLS ebooks
One of the great new features of Leopard, Quick Look, can change the way you view documents, images and video files. Before discovering the joys of Quick Look, I was constantly wasting time launching different programs to view files. Now, I just hit the Space Bar and [...]