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About this site — mac.nz is owned by Mark Webster, I am 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, and the author of the NZ history book Assembly: NZ Car Production 1921-1998 (Reed Books, 2002).

I am also a director of the CreativeTech conference.

I was the editor of NZ Macguide magazine for five years and I have worked exclusively with Macs for 22+ years. I have my own Apple-centric blog (mac-nz.com) and I write an Apple blog for the New Zealand Herald (Mac Planet). 

I am a speaker on Information Technology and automotive, historical and Apple subjects, and I work as a Mac trainer with wide experience. I have presented and trained at Natcoll, to MAINZ, for ImageText, to 3Media, MacMillan Publishing, Performing Arts School of the University of Auckland, to the Creative Technologies Faculty at AUT and for Microsoft, and to dozens of individuals and groups including SeniorNet.



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Apple Mac tips

mac-nz is a great source of Mac tips, from the Finder to sophisticated in-application tricks. On a mission to make your Mac more fruitful, mac-nz aims to inform, demystify and to improve your Mac life.
Every Friday, five tips will be published by 9am New Zealand time on this site, but these will be removed later in the day.
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Please remember that comments and suggestions are always welcome.

Meanwhile, check out Wellington-based Miraz Jordan's Mac Tips site, with easy-to-follow Mac advice.

Apple also posts extremely good videos with all sorts of useful information about the Apple OS and apps.
Mac basics
Here are the iLife videos.

Manuals for every Apple products are available here as PDFs.
Friday, 10 February 2012
5 Tip Friday 109: Click-right
Macs have had right-clicks for, well, forever. You may need to turn it on – System Preferences, on the mouse or trackpad tab, depending on what you use, as it may be off by default, but even your Trackpad can have a right click (pic). Then what? ... read more
Friday, 23 April 2010
Where are the tips?
Just ask for the MagBytes monthly free mac-nz PDF newsletter – all the tips are compiled in there, so if you miss the Five Tip Friday tips or you want a refresher, everything is OK; they're all available in a form you can refer back to.... read more