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Upcoming Geek Events: Unconferenz and HMAUS Springfest

Unconferenz has rescheduled to Saturday, March 20, 2010 from 8:00 AM – 4:00 AM at Kapiolani Community College. (This was postponed due to the Tsunami Warnings the day of the original event.) A wide variety of topics and a great chance to network. Sign up on their site now to get a t-shirt and lunch.

HMAUS (Hawaii Mac and Apple User Society) has scheduled their annual Springfest for May 1st at Kapiolani Community College. These day-long events typically feature a variety of FREE lectures and demos covering computer use, digital photography, and social media, and are open to the public. Details are still forthcoming, but pencil in the date now.

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HMAUS presents Mac Springfest: May 23rd

HMAUS Mac Springfest

A full day of learning and fun is planned at the upcoming Hawaii Macintosh & Apple Users’ Society (HMAUS) Mac Springfest.   JAIMS (6660 Hawaii Kai Drive) will be the site for all the Mac Fanboy Love you can spread around.   Topics include:

  • Mac 101 for beginners,
  • Adobe’s Lightroom,
  • Social Networks and Livefeeds,
  • and Time Management with Apple products

If you’ve been thinking of switching to a Mac, or, been using one for years,  it should be a great day with prizes, food, and all the Mac experts’ help you could ever need!

Learn more at HMAUS

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PayPal: Add Basic E-Commerce To Your Website

If you’ve never used or seen PayPal before, then you have probably been hiding under a rock, since PayPal is one of the top ways to pay online in the US. You can often find PayPal as an option for checkouts on many e-commerce websites. This article will briefly explain [...]

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Mozy: Secondary Backups Made Simple

Backing up your data is a very wise thing to do. Hard drives fail, files and folders get deleted accidentally, and sometimes you just can’t remember where you put something any more. I recommend a two-layer backup plan. Your first layer is to have an external drive connected to [...]

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LastPass: Free password syncing for PC/Mac

If you visit lots of websites, you’ve probably started to accumulate a LOT of passwords for each site. For security reason, you should have SEPARATE passwords for each site. (Else, if someone learns that one password of yours, they could access any other site you visit. Not secure.) Also, these [...]

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Evernote: Syncing Your Notes (and Files) Wherever

Man, I like this product! Evernote is like Yojimbo with tentacles, “Tako Yojimbo”. Let me explain. Evernote is like a journal that you can type in, paste in, add screen shots, even drop files into, and it will sync those across multiple platforms. Evernote is available [...]

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MacHeist Releases Latest Mac App Bundle

MacHeist has released their latest collection of Mac applications today. The 12 titles that are included are worth over $500 according to MacHeist, who have the bundle on sale for $39. The applications range from help with eBay to web development to photo enhancement programs. The titles include: iSale, Picturesque, SousChef, World of [...]

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drop.io: Simple, fast, free file sharing

drop.io has to be one of the simplest sites I’ve ever seen.   It’s gotten more bells and whistles over time, but still, it’s dead simple to set up a place on the Internet to share your files. And it’s FREE!  Here’s how it works: Visit their site Either accept the random drop site name they [...]

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