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Merry Christmas from MacWorks Inc.

In the spirit of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, the MacWorks team is pleased to share a Christmas tech miracle in poetic verse. Enjoy. ‘Twas three days ‘til Christmas, while warm in the car I noticed my phone was not near… but far I poured out my bags right there on the seat Keyboards and …

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iPad 2 Repair Video from MacWorks Inc.

Several of our customers asked us to show them a video of the iPad 2 repair process. It is a pretty amazing video… we’re happy to show you what happens during the repair so you can see just how much care goes into every iPad we fix. Please enjoy the video. If you have any …

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Studio No. 6 Featured in Inc. Magazine’s World’s Coolest Offices 2011

Congratulations to our friends at Studio No. 6 for their feature in Inc. Magazine! From flying frogs to sliding barn doors, the Studio No. 6 office is not your typical corporate setting. You will find no grey cubicle walls in this office! Here, you will find an open floor plan, moveable wall, hidden media center …

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Willie the Bee Man Success Story

When Willie — a.k.a. “Willie the Bee Man” — first approached MacWorks, he had a stack of iPads for his employees in his bee removal business, located in Miami, Florida and Hill County, Texas. He heard that Marketcircle’s Daylite and Billings Pro work well between iOS and Mac — and could make his organization paperless if done properly. …

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Make all Apple Mail attachments an icon with terminal

For a long time now, we’ve been frustrated with Apple Mail’s decision to show one-page attachments in their entirety (inline) when we’re composing emails. By default, Apple mail will only produce a thumbnail for the attachment if it’s more than one page. That gets very messy if we’re sending several one-page attachments. One of our …

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iTunes Match definitive answers – what is it, how do I use it and is it safe?

Apple has been a little vague on the features of iTunes Match. Most of what we know came from the iCloud/Lion Keynote this past summer. To complicate matters, the press has been stabbing in the dark to explain exactly what iTunes Match does since day one. Now that it’s out, we’ve had a chance to …

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Adobe abandons Flash for mobile devices

I remember watching Steve Jobs sitting on a couch during the iPad’s first keynote: people were legitimately shocked to see that it couldn’t display a Flash ad as he browsed the internet during the demo. Some people wrote it off as an unfinished product, ‘the final version will surely ship with Flash.’ When it didn’t, …

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iPhone battery tips for your new 4S

Twitter, Facebook and all of the other social networks are flooded with complaints of short battery life for the iPhone 4S. But it doesn’t stop there… other people are having issues with their battery life after upgrading to iOS 5. Apple has commented that there is a fix on the way but there could be …

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iVPN is a great substitute for Lion Server’s terrible VPN

If you’ve read through our blog at length, you’ll know that we’ve had a difficult time getting Lion Server to allow VPN connections from PCs. From modifying registry files to typing in terminal commands, we couldn’t find an easy way to help our customers implement Snow-Leopard-era VPN features on Lion Server. Unfortunately, Apple removed a …

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