Archive for August, 2007

A visit to AUS

If there’s a place in the UAE made for Mac lovers, it has to be the School of Architecture and Design at American University in Sharjah (AUS). It is only natural that the computers predominantly serves the school’s computer needs. We spent a few hours touring the school with Abdul-Hakeem Sanni, IT Manager for the [...]

Photoshop Tutorial: Extend Borders

I have seen this effect some years back in Photoshop User Magazine, and have seen it in many advertisements and articles in the 7Days newspaper for instance in the sports section. The same effect could be done in QuarkXpress or InDesign using different techniques. Here I have a picture of a car, I will use [...]

Switcher Interview

Name: Sumudu Gunaratne
Job: Airline Manager
Mac: iMac 17-inch Intel
Switch date: March 8, 2006

Q: Why did you switch?
A: A friend at work had talked to me briefly about Mac Mini and so I fancied the idea of trying some thing new and different. So one evening I went over to Apple Store in Ibn Battuta [...]

Peel the Apple

Q: I’ve just got a new MacBook and with the Intel processor I thought it would run a lot faster than my iBook, but it doesn’t seem to be that much faster. What can I do to check to see if something’s wrong?
A: More than likely you’re running some PowerPC program. On an Intel Mac [...]

Experiences of an Apple fan across the world – Part 4: Hong Kong

Another of my Mac travelogue and this time it is my experiences in Hong Kong. I have just three more – Sydney, Brisbane – Australia, Barcelona – Spain and Singapore to recount, the rest is all covered. Now that I have written four of my experiences, I realized that I am just penning what I [...]

Back to School Preparations

The start of school can be stressful for both children and parents, no matter how old they are. Making a check list can help in making sure you have everything covered for the first day of school. Here are a few things you may want to think about when making your checklist for the [...]

Profile of a Mac Seller

Q: When did you start working for iStyle?
A: May 2006.
Q: What did you do before working at iStyle?
A: Working in Lebanon with US Aid under SUNY for five years. I worked mainly at an IT Help Desk.
Q: When was the first time you used a Mac and what was your first impression?
A: When I arrived [...]

EmiratesMac.com tips and tricks

Gallery
We have a nice gallery on the site, with users uploading their photos and artwork. When you upload a picture to the gallery, keep in mind that you shouldn’t upload a huge file. Even if you took something with your digital camera, make sure the picture you upload is no more than around 1200 pixels [...]

Your new MacBook Pro: Hints and Tips

As you return to school, I am sure you that you are excited that you’ve eventually acquired a new MacBook Pro notebook of your own. Gone are those days when you have to depend on those security-locked Mac desktops in your school’s IT-equipped teaching spaces (labs, studios etc). You can now carry out your design, [...]

The Day the Community Took Over

Digg.com is a community-driven news web site. It was started in 2004 as a place where each story was submitted by a registered user on the site, and any other user could “digg” or “bury” a story, depending on whether they liked it or not. Digg has become a phenomenon in a short period of [...]

A Word From the Editor: Back to School

It’s that time of the year when thousands of kids go back to school, and thousands more go to school for the first time. Apple has traditionally had a strong position in education and continues to do so. And that arguably applies even to our region (see “A visit to AUS” in this issue of [...]

Digital Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking has been around as long as there has been printed material, and it is a way of story telling. People used it to keep record of things that happen in their personal life, in their family’s life, or maybe a way of keeping memories of some special events. Today people use creative ways to [...]

Interview: Sweet & Sour Swede with MacBook

EmiratesMac had the opportunity to interview Henrik Friberg, a a DJ and Visual Effects Designer in Dubai, about him and the UAE, his career, and about Apple and Macs.

EM: Tell us about yourself! Like where do you come from, how did you
come to live in Dubai? What do you do for a living?
HF: I moved [...]