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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.



Apple Hardware & Software reviews

mac-nz has one of the largest selections of Apple Mac reviews in New Zealand, covering Apple Mac hardware, Apple Mac software and Apple Mac accessories on the local market.

If you want your product reviewed for Mac or iPhone, please contact Mark Webster.
Monday, 20 September 2010
Canadian company Clickfree, inventors of ‘effortless computer backup’, has just launched four feature-rich, simple-to-use backup solutions on the New Zealand market. Clickfree products are able to backup multiple computers, networks and mobile storage devices, like the iPod, iPad and iPhone easily and effortlessly.... read more
Monday, 20 September 2010
It’s always in your interests to monitor and check the condition of your Mac’s hard drive, and while the free Apple Disk Utility in your Utilities' folder inside the Applications' folder can do the basics, if you want more, or continuous monitoring, you should be looking further afield. ... read more
Wednesday, 08 September 2010
Little tiny USB drive packs in the Gigabytes. Physically, ‘thumb drives’ are usually about the size of a thumb, logically enough. But this thing is about the size of a thumb nail! Despite that, it holds a very impressive 16GBs of data.... read more
Thursday, 02 September 2010
Since an iPhone (and an iPod touch, for that matter) is a computer, and because it’s so portable, with a couple of little add-ons, it becomes oh, so much more. Most add-ons are apps, of course, like the iStethoscope that 3 million doctors have already downloaded – you can literally use your iPhone as a stethoscope for $1.29. A few add-ons, though, are physical, like this little iRig device from IK Multimedia.... read more
Wednesday, 01 September 2010
Some OK little speakers, a not-great-for-Mac gaming headset, but wonderful Bluetooth ’phones ... read more
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
This software aims to make it easy to animate, with a set of characters to get you started. And it is easy to use – drag-and-drop easy.... read more
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Short reviews: This stuff has been building up on me so I decided to do them all in one review: Blue Lounge CableDrop multipurpose cable clips; Australian SmirkAbout budsocks, SmirkAbout iPhone and iPod skins and Norton Internet security for Mac and Windows... read more
Wednesday, 07 July 2010
When I started this, I thought 'great, should be able to knock this review off in no time, it looks almost the same as the CS4 version'. Nope! A week later, I am surprised and pleased to say that's not the case. This new version is close enough that you can keep working without noticing much difference, but when you do start noticing, you'll be very pleasantly surprised.... read more
Friday, 11 June 2010
Adobe's new Creative Suite 5 is full of features that will make you work faster, more efficiently and collaborate more easily. I start the reviews with Photoshop, which reaches v12 in this incarnation.... read more
Friday, 21 May 2010
My 2007 MacBook Pro, which I was so proud of three years ago, looks decidedly dated beside the new i7 version. It has a slightly lower profile with the lid closed, more rounded corners to slip into a bag more easily, and its slick, shiny screen is surrounded by the black bezel.... read more