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Chris Gulker - who has written 3 posts on Macgasm.

Chris Gulker has been a startup executive, advisor, and investor, an advocate for open source software, a senior editor at NewsForge, columnist for London’s Independent, an Apple Computer publishing markets director, Adobe Acrobat Product Manager and founder of sfgate.com, www.examiner.com and www.gulker.com, published since 1995.

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Review: Mac OS X Leopard on Demand

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

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Mac OS X Leopard on Demand (Que Publishing, 2007, ISBN-13 978-0-7897-3654-3) is a very good training resource and tutorial manual for OS X 10.5 users. The book rightly categorizes itself as “˜Beginning-Intermediate’ and is a particularly good choice for “˜Switchers’ and others who, new to Mac OS X, want a printed manual. Help desks and [...]

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Updating or creating contacts in Leopard

Thursday, February 7, 2008

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I recently received a note in Mail with updated info from one of my contacts. As I moused over it, gray dashed lines appeared around the address, email and phone info, along with a small white triangle in a gray box. Right clicking produced a menu of options, as pictured. Clicking “˜Add to Existing Contact”¦’ brought [...]

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Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and… Apple?

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

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There’s much buzz in the Valley over Google’s leap into the proposed MS/Yahoo deal. WSJ has particularly good reporting on Google’s interest and maneuvers in blocking the deal. When giant tech companies are dealing, pundits can hardly resist commenting on what this means for the rest of the industry. Moi, I am interested in [...]

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