When the Map opens go to the Search box just to the right of the Google name. Type in the street address, city, state or just the zip code you are looking for. It is not necessary to capitalize or to put in commas. For example type in 77700 country club rancho mirage. Now click on the search box or hit your return button. Your map is now visible. Close the large white address box by clicking on the X in the upper right corner of the box. Now go to the upper right corner of the window and click on satellite. If you want to use the address box to get directions you will have to use Firefox; Safari won't work!

The Apple Discussion site is full of information on an incredibly wide variety of topics. This site should be your first reference point when looking for an answer to your Mac related topic:  http://discussions.info.apple.com/

For all kinds of information on Macs, check out Macs.About at  macs.about.com

Road Runner has announced that their download speeds have increased to 5 Mbps (up from 3 Mbps). Upload speeds remain at 384 Kbps. This makes Road Runner triple the speed of DSL's standard package and more than 100 times faster than dial-up, according to Road Runner. Here are three sites that you can use to test the speed at which your computer transfers data. They are easy to use and are listed in my order of preference.

1. DSL/Broadband Reports: http://www.dslreports.com/stest
2. CNET Bandwidth: http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html
3. Bandwidth Place: http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/

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For those of you who have old 8mm and 16 mm, or old VHS movies that you want to convert to digital and be able to edit in iMovie to create a DVD, the following website does that digital conversion: http://www.homemoviedepot.com/index.php        

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Set-up page for Road Runner, Earthlink and AOL Broadband. Go here to set up a new account or manage an existing account: http://www.desertbeepbeep.com/

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If you want to build a free Blog using Blogger and also post photos to your Blog using the free photo storage site, Flickr go to our DMUG Tutorial

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PhotoLeap. This is fairly new - released Feb. 2005. You've taken a zillion digital images and want to share them with others. But your e-mail program limits the size of attachments. Uploading images to photo-sharing sites can be a pain. PhotoLeap lets you quickly send and receive hundreds of digital photos in one message, without the constraints of regular e-mail. A basic version is free. Before going to the PhotoLeap web site check out this article in PC Magazine for a complete easy to understand review.

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If you use Microsoft's Office programs, here is a site that will give you some great tips on auto-correcting your text: MS Office Auto-Correct tips.

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If you need cables or adapters etc. for your TV or Computer there is only one place to go: Monoprice Cable at http://www.monoprice.com/home/?CartID=
Bob Greenspan just purchased an HDMI cable for his Plasma TV from them on a Friday and it arrived on Tuesday. The cable was $6.50 and the shipping and handling was $3.85. Bob saw the exact same cable at best buy for $80.00. Bob says the company sent him an email confirming his order and followed up with a 2nd email stating the order was shipped on Monday. He adds that it doesn’t get any better than this, and that we should check them out!

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Here is a site for those of you who are just switching to the Mac, or to OS X. Lots of useful information for you:   http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=2140

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Here is a site that will give you all kinds of useful information on Macs and this page tutors you on iTunes:  http://maczealots.com/tutorials/itunes/

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Free (or nearly-free) Downloads of various Utility Programs

Tinker Tool: http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html

MacJanitor is freeware at: http://perssionalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html

         a similar shareware is Macaroni at:  http://www.atomicbird.com  for $8.99

Cocktail at: http://www.maintain.se/cocktail/index.html for $14.95

OnyX  freeware: http://www.titanium.free.fr/


Free programs to uninstall foreign languages:

Delocalizer: http://www.bombich.com/software/local.html

Monolingual: http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/



OTHER FREE USEFUL DOWNLOADS

For a right-click Google map of someone in your Apple Address Book application:
    http://www.macilife.com/Life_Poster_1.2.zip

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