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I have two of our official cool screened T-shirts left over from Macworld Expo this year. One with the MTD logo, and the other with Thinkmac logo. Also, I am throwing in one TUAW shirt. Enjoy!

Thanks to those that entered. It's extremely humbling to hear how much you like the content!

Here are the winners, chosen at Random.

Mark H. -
"As a brand new mac user and power windows user, it's great to have a podcast that gives me heaps of info on what I really want to know about tips. Keep it up guys! It is definitely a great podcast for all mac owners, new and old. Highly Recommended!"
5 Stars!

Louis L. -
"Covers a wide range of topics to help you READ MORE »

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I have two of our official cool screened T-shirts left over from Macworld Expo this year. Want one? If so, go to iTunes and write a review of the show for us. Positive or negative will not influence who wins. It's random.

Click HERE to write your review and iTunes will launch.

Once you write the review, email me - tips@thinkmac.net a screenshot of it and I'll enter you in the drawing. READ MORE »

We love a good contest, especially one that includes one of those sleek iPod Touch devices.

If you are a visionary and have some great ideas for an iPhone/iPod Touch application, submit your idea to St. Clair Software. If your idea is chosen, you could win your very own iPod Touch. Doesn't take much to enter, just a little imagination and a good idea for an app.

To enter, head over to St. Clair Software for more details and submit your idea.
Contest ends March 31, 2008 - so get your entries in now!

To end our week long celebration of our 300th show, we are giving away 5 Copies of Posterino. Posterino allows you to create posters, life posters, postcards and more; all with complete integration into your iLife apps.

Extra special thanks go out to Zykloid.com for providing us this great piece of software.

Our Winners:

Jim Dyer from Conway, AR READ MORE »

Listen to today's tip & Winners Announced!

Today we are giving away two great prizes from Belight Software. Printfolio and Art Text. Extra special thanks to Belight for providing these.

Our Winners:

Art Text: Don Voltz from Twinsburg, OH READ MORE »

Listen to today's tip & our Winner announcement here!

Here are the winning entries from our 300th show contest. 1Passwd is complements of the good folk at Agile Web Solutions.

Our Winners:

Rob K. from Louisville,Kentucky

My first computer? An NCR Punch Tape Terminal with a phone cradle connection to the University Of Louisville Speed School mainframe.

Yep, it was the old days, 1974 to be exact. The terminal was a large, hulking machine with a typewriter keyboard. And since computer time was so expensive, you would actually create your program (we used BASIC) by typing it on the keyboard. As you typed, it would punch holes in the 2-inch wide paper tape. READ MORE »

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Tomorrow is the final day for entries into our 300th show contest.

We've had an enormous amount of entries, and it's really fun to read through them all. Unfortunately, I would say at least 20% of them have not told us about their first computer. Hello... that's a stipulation of the contest. I clearly state on the contest page that incomplete entries will be discarded. I hate to do that. If you have entered and are reading this, look in your SENT box and see if you entered correctly! If you didn't, re-submit your entry. You need to tell me your Name, where you are from, and an anecdote about your FIRST COMPUTER. READ MORE »