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#1 ·
Hello everyone! And welcome to ehMac.ca: Canada's Mac Community! We hope you will enjoy your stay and become an active, positive presence to this little corner of the web.

This thread is here for you to introduce yourself (Or re-introduce yourself) and to allow us to get to know you better! After-all, community is what ehMac.ca is all about!

Please feel free to be as brief or as detailed as you feel comfortable with. (Be careful about giving away too much private, personal information)

* Who you are (male, female, student, professional, etc.)
* Brief summary of some of your other interests
* How you got involved with Macs, or how you are currently involved.
* How many/which Macs have you owned or presently own?
* What are your favourite Mac programs?
* What general area of this great country are you from?

Let's continue to foster a sense of community here! ehMac.ca Newbies / Lurkers, press that New Reply button! :)
 
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#206 ·
my name is michael...and i'm not an alcoholic...during the day...haha.

i am a car part picker during the day who's graduated in the field of visual merchandising, did a quick stink in a tool and die making program but figured that i don't like standing in front of machines and hated the retail world with a passion.

by night and weekend i am a photograher who enjoys anything outdoors, all seasons except spring, eating, dancing, and enjoying the simplest things in life.
a neo-hippy artsy fellow who dislikes fashion trends and using capital letters at the beginning of sentances.

my interest in macs started a couple of years ago after my friends started to buy them and told me how good and simple they were. as time went by, i realized how much simpler my photo editing workflow would become and so i eventually knew i had to have one. i didn't really have any other choice but to buy one when my pc completely crashed about 2 months ago. i was strapped for cash but i wasn't going to buy a cheap pc and then have to upgrade once again and then save enough money to buy a mac.

at the moment i'm using the new imac 20" 2.4ghz intel core 2 duo,2 gb ram, 320 gb hd, super drive, 10.4.10

i was born and raised here where i live in scarborough.

it's not so much a mac based program(s) but working in adobe photoshop and lightroom on a mac with this lcd screen is like heaven.
 
#207 ·
hello cleveland!!!! i mean EhMac world!!

Hello my name is Andy

I'm a 30 something stay at home dad/web design business owner.

I'm a very new Mac user. I recently came into a MacBook Pro and have loved it!


I absolutely LOVE this machine!!!!

As i mentioned, i own a small web design/hosting business out of my house and switching to the Mac has been great.

i'm still trying to get used to the machine and what it can do for me, so i'm sure i'll have a lot of questions for you all!!!

my interests are; softball, golf, and hanging out with my 2 kids. I also enjoy motorcycle racing. Recently went to the Isle of Mann to see the Centenery TT road races. AMAZING.

i think that's it for now
 
#209 ·
* Who you are (male, female, student, professional, etc.)

I am a young adult male, ex student, currently working the greatest grunt job of my life. I'm really paranoid, not in the bad "aliens in 51" kind of way, but in the "the less the government knows about me the better." Anyways, it makes it difficult for me to share too much.

* Brief summary of some of your other interests

I'm trying really hard to get into the creative arts, I like to write and draw, I do neither very well. I'm learning to play the guitar, which is fun.

* How you got involved with Macs, or how you are currently involved.

In grade 7 I was home-schooled over the internet, the computers we rented were 68K macs, then Powermacs, then in grade 9 we all got iMacs. I haven't looked back since.

* How many/which Macs have you owned or presently own?

Not too many, I was a student then not working for awhile and macs are hard enough to afford as it is. I bought my first iMac for $600 after it blew up about 3 years later I got another one at my universities clearence sale for $20. Another of lifes lessons.
I'm currently cruising around on a 1Ghz G4 Quicksilver.

* What are your favourite Mac programs?

Hands down Little Snitch...you just try and call home you dirty program

* What general area of this great country are you from?
West
 
#211 ·
Hey! My name is Logan and.... obviously I'm new to the forums. :)

A little bit about myself eh? Well I'm a 25 year old ex-student who is, like most grads with an undergraduate degree, realizing it can be little more than an expensive piece of paper! :lmao: I'm working here in Halifax in the hospitality industry while I work towards enrolling in a 3d animation program. That's right! My dream is to go from underemployed arts student to underemployed artist, but hey, all kidding aside, it's part of the reason I've come back to using Macs.

I began using Macs in the mid 90's when my father managed to find himself an old Macintosh SE. Even though it was small, B&W and didn't have a HD, I was really taken by it's GUI OS and user friendliness. After a few years and a few upgrades, we retired that old SE and relegated it to duties more fitting to it's... abilities, namely as a storage device for recipes. Then came our brand new Powermac, which was a real treat, as it was color, had a built in sub-woofer in the tower and ran all the latest software (which to me @ the time, a 14yr old, mean it ran Warcraft 2 :D ) During my 2nd year of university, I acquired an older Windoze machine and when that failed me I cheaped out and purchased a newer Acer. When that died on me, I was saved by my dad who donated his old Yikes! 350mhz G4 to me and though it filled the void my latest comp is thrilling. I've just obtained a refurb 17'' iMac 2.0 gig core 2 duo and I'm in love!

As far as software goes, Leopard has just been a joy, though I've noticed a few hiccups. Now that I know that Safari has tabbed browsing :eek: , it's become my #1 browser.

Well that's enough about me, I'm not much for talking about myself, but i am one who likes to voice his opinion and thoughts... so you should be hearing from me soon! :D
 
#212 ·
Hi... I'm Simon.

I joined.... stayed a little while and then left... now I'm back.

I'm the ONLY ONE of my friends who use a Mac which sucks as I have NO-ONE to chat with on iChat :(

I work as a service technician and I install and maintain, ATMs for all the major banks, point of sale equipment for grocery stores and gas stations.

I have two Mac's (see my signature) and picked up and old G3 iMac for my four year old to mess about with.

Just here to meet new people and geek out....

.... give me a shout.

(Oh and I just joined the ehmac group on Facebook)
 
#216 ·
Hi, I'm T, new to this forum and new to the MAC world. I have to admit, I invested in one because they were pretty...but I love it. I won't go back. I'm a little slow on how things work, because they are much different than the windows PC that I had prior.

I'm a SAHM of two boys and mainly use my system for email, forums and MSN. That has to be one issue that I had... figuring an MSN Messenger that would work. Thankfully, I have figured it out. I also enjoy FACEBOOK, but like everything else, its slowing.

This is my very first mac. I don't think I ever had one, except maybe my parents had one many many moons ago...but I don't remember.

I'm from AB, just east of Edmonton. Small little community, great for raising our kids. My DH is a serving member of the DND.

Thanks for all your help so far, I hope to join in on more conversations...although I can't be much help!
 
#217 ·
Re-introduction- volunteer proofreaders out there? exhange of services?

Hi,

I am M. and male. Formerly from Montreal now living in the GTA.

My powerbook G4 died on me about 1 month ago. Need a new screen, new casing, perhaps a DVI port. Who knows what else. Have no clue where to get those or if at all worth it.

I first got involved with Macs back in the Dominican Republic, when computers where not all very common over there. I want to get involved again, perhaps by fixing my old one, or buying a new one sometime soon and hopefully by Xmas.

No favourite Mac program in particular that I can currently think of, but have worked with many for office matters.

That's a re-introduction. That said, other interests include writing, and now I am in search of a volunteer ehMac proofreader for 19 pages for this poetry translation, Any takers? Oh... I can throw in translation of some work from English into Spanish, if you are into it. You'd just need to read it for common grammatical errors that you can think about. No need for perfection in your effort, just a good honest one.
 
#218 ·
Just wanted to drop by and introduce myself, been a lurker for a while while I had a G3 iBook, just took delivery of a C2D macbook the middle of last week and getting things tweaked to my liking. Looking forward to visiting these forums more often.

Cliff
 
#223 ·
I'm a second-year communcations student at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. I enjoy drawing, programming, and film, which is actually why I got a macbook pro; I understood that they were supposed to be great for creative applications, and once boot camp came along there was no reason not to get one. I don't really have a favorite mac program, just a bunch of different ones that I use a lot. I don't really think of programs in terms of favorites, but I guess I use photoshop, textwrangler, VLC and itunes a lot.
 
#226 ·
Actually, he looks like he's got heartburn... :D

Welcome!
 
#230 ·
I am not looking forward to the flight - more so given all of my gear. I have to seriously downsize on mac gear, sadly, and only the PowerBook and iPod will make it...

No matter how many times you do the flight (6 times so far for me) it never gets pleasant! If the iPhone is released for my arrival, it might help ;)
 
#232 ·
Hey!
My name is Carley-Marie,

* Who you are

I am a University student in my second year of my HBA in English and BEd in primary/junior education

* Brief summary of some of your other interests

I am a television/Starbucks addict.

I have over 125 seasons of tv shows on dvd. My top four favourites are Gilmore Girls, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Veronica Mars, and Alias.

* How you got involved with Macs, or how you are currently involved/How many/which Macs have you owned or presently own?

In high school I had a media studies teacher who was obsessed with Macs and plugged Apple (and Red vs. Blue) every class.

When I was about to start my first year in University I fell in love with the MacBook. It took me an additional year of research and pro/con lists, but in November I got my first Mac (specs in signature).
 
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