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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.

Mac News

mac-nz has one of the largest selections of Apple Mac news and in New Zealand, covering Apple Mac hardware, Apple Mac software and Apple Mac and iPhone accessories, to make it easy to find the most up-to-date reviews and information on Apple Mac and Mac-related products.

(The mac.nz news archive from the last three years is here.)

Monday, 26 July 2010
Bright look at 'dark side' of the Moon; water of Neptune; contacting Aliens should be more like Twitter, less like War & Peace; gravitational lens; The Universe guarantees paradox-free time travel; dissolving microneedle patch could lead to universal vaccinations; and turning cancer cells off... read more
Saturday, 24 July 2010
Go in the draw to win prizes by buying CreativeTech tickets; new session added to CreativeTech; new Mac Pros – and new iMacs? How to fix common Mac startup problems; and Microsoft stays ahead of Apple in profitability – just... read more
Friday, 23 July 2010
Disable your Safari AutoFill Immediately! Take Control introduces new users system, supports iDevices; MacBook Air due an update? (Yes!); Lexar thumb drive big enough for backups and Ballmer is under pressure at Microsoft; new features for Chrome... read more
Thursday, 22 July 2010
Apple earnings – more records broken; iLife 10 'pour les nuls' (for Dummies); get your own WWDC-style App Wall screensaver; screenshots of MobileMe Calendar web app... read more
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Apple gives MacPaint and Quickdraw source to the Computer History Museum; iTunes 9.2.1 is now available for download – it fixes numerous bugs; and there was a 'secret' Snow Leopard security fix in the last Mac OS update, reckons BusinessWeek... read more
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Earnings coming up – Apple may pass Microsoft in earnings. One expert, Andy Zaky, believes that day is nearing. “Most analysts think it is just a matter of time before Apple is truly the bigger company.”... read more
Monday, 19 July 2010
Antimatter inside Earth predicts quakes; the thermosphere is contracting; Mercury flyby reveals more detail; remarkable 'ion trap' turns charged atoms into quantum information carriers; cold new vaccines; cells live many ways, die few; and evidence for the site of King Arthur's castle... read more
Friday, 16 July 2010
Mac sales reach 8-10 per cent in the US, climbing a third above the US industry rate; and how to force wireless connection at higher AirPort frequencies... read more
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Roundup of Mac web browsers; Day of Defeat WWII shooter is now on Mac thanks to Steam, and Google has put more HTML5 Gmail features into Safari. ... read more
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Macworld conference registrations open; AppleJack updated for Snow Leopard; Toshiba launches drives for Macs; free video conversion software; Greenpeace chastises Dell to be more like Apple and most PC corps are still using XP!... read more