Vancouver BC, Canada (April 12, 2010) – Mac Video Training products help you learn your Macintosh computer with their appropriately titled “Quick Start” video training courses that are designed to get you going quickly and work at your own pace to master your Mac. Their most successful title “Quick Start Your Mac” has sold more than 25,000 copies in Canada and the U.S. and to celebrate the company’s success, they have released Quick Start Your Mac plus; a brand-new and dramatically improved course, rebuilt from the ground up.

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We have been doing more and more trade shows/presentations and the likes these days and in many cases we have to either cart around our own fairly large speaker configurations or arrange to have some speakers provided for us. When a set of speakers is provided for you, you just don’t always know how they are going to perform? In some cases the speakers were overkill and in a booth situation we don’t want the attention on the speakers we want the attention on our product. Even too much bass is distracting as all we really need is for the message to cut through and if there’s lots of bass then often things can get a bit muddy!

Our requirements where a set of compact stereo speakers that had enough volume to cut through a noisy environment and a sound quality that would produce accurate sounding voice. We wanted the fewest possible cables so as not clutter up our table.

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We all want to be as “green” as we can these days… It’s just the right thing to do and why not save some money while you do your part for the environment!

I find myself constantly printing things off like invoices, maps, addresses, and confirmation emails, maybe many of you also find yourself printing stuff like this too?

Do you also find that much of the time you think you’re only going to get one page but when all is said and done, out pops another couple pages of non-relevant info or even sometimes one line of print that renders that entire page useless for reuse.

Here’s what I do to get around this problem and save on paper and ink as well as overall printer usage and general waiting around.

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File Management
A common computer mistake, and not just on a Mac is file disorganization, or randomly placing anything and everything wherever the mood dictates. Sure you can always use Spotlight to find a file or email but why not just organize your Mac as you go and the next time you need to find something it will be right where you filed it. That said, there is no one way to organize your Mac’s files, you could do it alphabetically or maybe start off with a Personal and Business file system that branches off from there, the idea here is to make a filing plan and follow the plan.

A few key rules are not to mess with your iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand files or Libraries as these generally get managed by the Applications, automatically going in your Photos, Movies, and Music folders. The folder that you can mess about with is your Documents folder. Customize this as needed and create New Folders and Sub-folders for what-have-you. Think of your Documents folder like a real filing cabinet, how would you organize this if it was the real deal?

To create a new folder inside the documents folder make sure to first navigate to your Documents folder and once it is highlighted, all you need to do is simply go to the “Finder File Menu” and select “New Finder Window”. Pressing “Command-N” will do the same thing. The new Folder will be labeled “untitled folder” and will usually be highlighted meaning you can now type the name you want that folder to be. If you want to change the name of a folder later, select it by clicking on it once, wait a second and then click on the name of the folder till it highlights, now you can enter a new name for it.

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When I say it “Snowed” I mean “Snow Leopard”! OK there are tons of reviews online including the ones we already posted links to so I will give you some interesting tid-bits I noticed about the Snow Leopard install that I just went through.

- First off, the install was so fast, about 45 minutes for me and when my Mac came back on line it was almost as if nothing had actually happened, this is a good thing!

- During the first boot-up, the finder seemed really sluggish at first but I am pretty sure this is because Snow Leopard is re-indexing all the finder file and icon information. Once it got through this the finder seemed maybe a bit faster.(My MacBook Pro 13 is already so fast it’s hard to tell?)

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From the early reviews I’ve read online via Engadget and Walt Mossburg, Mac OS X Snow Leopard seems to be getting positive feedback, mainly due to a few new GUI (graphic user interface) tweaks, smaller installation, increased speed, and refreshingly low upgrade price ($29).

I tend to like New York Time’s Technology Columnist David Pogue’s review of Snow Leopard best. He does a great job of comparing Operating Systems to building blocks. That may sound a little strange, but when you watch his video, it all makes sense.

Another interesting thing to note: A number of websites are reporting that Mac OS X Tiger users are also successfully upgrading their Macs to Snow Leopard with the $29 disc without having to buy the $169 boxset as stated by Apple. Keep in mind though, that you’ll need an Intel Mac if you want to run it. That means, a Mac that was purchased no longer than about 2006. Sorry Bondi Blue iMac; you’re plain out of luck!

(Posted by Paul)

It looks like snow might be a bit early this year; Snow Leopard that is. Apple’s newest operating system hits the stores on August 28th, and you can be sure that MVT will be right behind this release with an update to Quick Start Your Mac.

This “FREE” update will consist of a series of videos that address the new features of Mac OS 10.6. This update will be available to new and existing customers online by clicking on the Update/Bonus video button from within our course. Watch for this update in the coming weeks ahead!

(Posted by Paul)