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aveRage used mac pRices
Apple PowerBook G4 1.67 GHz 17” Al (M9689LL/A) ................................. $146
Apple iMac Core Duo 1.83 GHz 17” FP White (2006)(MA406LL/A) ............ $131
Apple iMac Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz 24” White (2006–07)(MA456LL/A) ....... $289
Apple Mac Pro 2.66 GHz Quad-Core (2006) (5100 Series) (MA356LL/A) ... $462
Apple MacBook Air Core 2 Duo 1.86GHz 13.3” (Late 2010) (MC504LL/A) .. $534
Apple MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz 15” (Unibody) (MB470LL/A) ....... $643
Apple MacBook Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz 13.3” (White) (2007) (MB062LL/A) $301
( Editor’s note: We multiply the price listed through Apple’s trade-in program at
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Future of Web Design
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Media Next
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HOW Interactive Design
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Dec 1–4
2012 Color Management
Conference
Scottsdale color.printing.org
Apr 11–12, 2013
TYPO San Francisco
San Francisco
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May 16–18, 2013
TYPO Berlin
Berlin
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Intro to CSS
Chicago . . . . . . . . . . .Nov 8
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Dreamweaver: Design
and Create Your Website
Chicago . . . . . . . . . . Oct 11
Houston. . . . . . . . . .Nov 15
Philadelphia. . . . . . .Dec 13
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your pictures. You can also
key in your own measure-
ments if you prefer, and
then data you generate can
be exported, shared, and
organized in a number of
different ways.
www.tinyurl.com/6ola72k.
Monitor Drive Space
with FreeSpace
FreeSpace ($0.99, Mac App
Store), is a must-have utility
for monitoring remaining
storage on multiple drives.
e program installs a Mac
menu bar icon that shows
how much space you have
on mounted volumes (net-
worked, internal, or exter-
nal) and gives you an easy
way to eject them.
Version 1.1 offers alerts
for drives that are getting
low on space along with a
number of new customiza-
tion options. Learn more
in Dan Frakes’ article at
Macworld.com at
www.tinyurl.com/cldacao.
Get it at
www.tinyurl.com/9vrj4nk.
Quickly Convert
Video & Audio
Re ggie Ashworth’s Vid-
Convert is a video- and au-
dio-conversion program
that is both simple to use
and customizable for ad-
vanced users. It outputs
into most common formats
and will convert almost any
audio or video format.
VidConvert is highly adapt-
able—you can set custom
bit rates and frame rates,
use normal or high-quali-
ty presets, and even stitch
files together. Included are
Mac- and
iOS-friendly pre-
sets to send your converted
files straight to iTunes and
sync them to your Apple
devices. It’s currently on
sale on the Mac App Store
for $3.99, with a few limi-
tations that differ from the
developer’s $7.99 version.
Check it out at
www.tinyurl.com/9dxuw5c.
Resize Sensibly
VeprIT’s Resize Sense is a
simple, helpful batch im-
age resizer for the Mac (OS
X 10.6 and later). Along
with resizing, you can use
it to reduce multiple im-
age sizes at once, convert a
batch to a different format,
and save your presets for
multiple uses.
It can also up-size imag-
es if necessary. Possibly its
best feature is that you can
crop and rotate one im-
age and then apply those
changes to a group of im-
ages. $14 on the Mac App
Store or $11 from the Ve-
prIT website. For more
information, read Jack-
ie Dove’s glowing review:
www.tinyurl.com/8cgne9j
Delete Apps and
Associated Files
AppDelete 4 ($8) is an easy-
to-use utility for Lion and
Mountain Lion that helps
you delete applications
along with their support
files. Whether you place an
application into the Trash,
drag it onto AppDelete’s
icon, or right-click and use
the AppDelete workflow,
you’ll get rid of the appli-
cation, its preferences, and
any other support files it in-
cludes—aer you approve
its preview of related files.
www.reggieashworth.com
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