Note: This is not a mac tip, feel free to skip.
Social news and networking is all the rage, with a new social media site popping up nearly every week. Many of us already use the big sites, so I thought we could share our contact information and make a few friends in the Mac scene.
I’ll [...]

We’re proud to announce our very first contest here at MacTips–a T-Shirt Idea Contest.

We’re in the process of designing some Mac T-shirts and thought we would ask you for ideas. Let us have your best/worst/funny/strange/obscure T-shirt ideas and you could win a free t-shirt.
Here are some guidelines:

You can submit as many ideas as you [...]

MacTips is a growing site and to keep up with the growth we’ve hired a few writers to provide regular tips. There are lots of ways to earn revenue to compensate these writers, but our favorite method is working with private sponsors.
This allows us to customize a message geared specifically to you. We can manually [...]

Just got done sprucing up the brand new MacTips Facebook Page. If you’re a Facebook user and you like MacTips, please consider joining. You can join here.

I’m proud to announce the new MacTips Website Gadget. This is for those of you that have your own blogs and websites that want to display the latest posts from MacTips.
Here’s what the widget looks like:
MacTips: OS X Tips & Tricks
To get the widget, paste the following code into your sidebar:
MacTips: OS X Tips & [...]

MacTips is still growing and to keep pace with the growth, we’re looking for 1 more writer.
Do the following attributes describe you?

Self motivated, able to take instructions and run with them
Able to meet deadlines on time
Interested in helping other Mac users
Consider yourself an Intermediate to Advanced Mac user
Stay up-to-date with the latest Apple news
Have lots [...]

I just got finished setting up the Mac Switchers Guide. This is a way we can transition MacTips to more advanced and intermediate tips without loosing Mac switchers (which was MacTips original purpose).
The goal for this guide is to provide Mac switchers with enough information to get started, but not overwhelm them with everything that’s [...]

Didn’t want to flood your readers/inboxes with site news, so I included 2 things in this post.
The first is a new feature I think you’re going to like: Random Tip. At the top of every page on the sidebar there is a new orange button. Clicking it takes you to a random tip.

The other thing, [...]

I’d like to introduce the newest way to find popular posts here at MacTips: Most Popular Tips page.
Currently it pulls the most popular posts from the difficulty (Easy/Intermediate/Advanced) categories, but also lists popular posts from each category that has more than 5 posts.
I plan on adding another option to show popular posts from each month [...]

The latest MacTips poll results are in. Last poll only had 128 votes. The latest poll had a whopping 675!
The question was how long have you been a Mac user?
60% of you have been a Mac user longer than 1 year, while 40% have been a Mac user under 1 year.
 
Sorry the data doesn’t look as [...]