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Welcome back to Mac 101; everyone please take your seats, and if you’re chewing gum, I hope you brought enough for everybody! Today, rather than suggesting a feature or tool that you might use on your Mac, I’d like to discuss some things to avoid — 5 common Mac-istakes that can stop you in your tracks.
Some quick history: Back in 2006, our own Damien Barrett posted his short list of Mistakes Made by New Mac Users, which drew over 100 responses. Dan Warne did a lovely job summarizing the comments. Recently, Dan Knight at lowendmac.com did a meta-analysis of Dan W.’s list and parsed out what could be easily fixed or made less error-prone. All are useful if you want to avoid some of the most prevalent ‘failure modes’ for new Mac users, but most of them are simple UI missteps that don’t do real damage.
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