One of the priorities for any Mac addict when moving somewhere new must surely be to check out the local scene for suppliers capable of feeding the said addiction. Newly arrived in Wellington, New Zealand's compact capital, I dedicated some time to explore the streets, news-agents, and Internet for all things Mac.
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Once, long ago, being a member of Apple's .Mac seemed like a good idea—even value-for-money. Following the recent Macworld in San Francisco (Jan 2006) I'm left wondering what I'm getting for my money.
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I've just received my first payment from Amazon Associates, being commission earned on sales over the past year. It's less than I had expected. A little over half of my reported "earnings" over the last four quarters were deducted as "personal orders", resulting in commission of less than 2% on total sales. Associates are apparently prohibited from earning commission on personal purchases. I wasn't aware this would be the case so attempted to verify it. Amazon.co.uk couldn't be bothered to reply to my customer service request, so I did some digging around on the Associates Central Discussion Board.
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Why do Adobe products cost more to download than buy off the shelf in Europe? Why do they cost way more than they do in the US? Do US upgrades work with UK products? Why doesn't Adobe respond to Customer Support e-mails? Good questions: now here for the answers...
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Google are currently beta-testing intergration of AdSense adverts with various blogging systems. A few of the feeds I subscribe to in NetNewsWire now carry ads (e.g. Engadget). Since I already use AdSense and it makes a (tiny) amount of $US, I applied to be a beta tester out of curiosity but was turned down. However, I decided to try and make it work anyway using iBlog...
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I've already looked at raw ability in Photoshop CS2, together with image editing features for post-processing. The question is should I upgrade to CS2 (from Photoshop 7 and Elements 3) when my Nikon D70 arrives, or spend similar money on Nikon Capture instead. How do they broadly compare in terms of features? At this point I'm not interested in technical subtleties, just a broad feature run-down for Joe Average.
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