As Christmas approaches, a lot of us will be heading out to the mall or other stores to begin the ritual of Christmas shopping. Within weeks what should be a pleasant experience can turn into stressful episodes of battling crowds, standing in queues for hours and trying to get everything bought and wrapped. Although Macstarter can’t help with any of that, we can help you think about out what to get your family / friends. In the next few parts of this series we’ll go [...]

In the last article we talked about some practical presents to buy fellow Mac owners. There are some non-essential, but very useful things you could get a loved one. Going Mouse-less I suffer from RSI from using a mouse, therefore use a pen tablet. For those of you who haven’t heard of this, it’s simply a flat “tablet” made of plastic, on which you control the mouse using a special pen. It takes a little getting used to, but has allowed me to use computers [...]

When it comes to buying a present in the Mac world, the obvious choice is of course to walk into your local Mac retailer and pick up a shiny new iMac / Macbook / iPad / iPod, wrap it up and put it under the Christmas tree ready for Christmas morning. I start throwing hints at all my nearest and dearest