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Photographer/explorer Ben Horton takes Apple hardware and software to extremes.

Your Mac lets you decide which, if any, applications open automatically each time you log into your account in OS X Leopard.

Safari’s search features are more powerful than ever in Mac OS X Leopard.

Publishing comics with a bang, a pow, and a Mac.

Spaces, one of the coolest new features of Mac OS X Leopard, lets you switch among multiple desktops.

Mac meets Wagner in a new production of Götterdämmerung.

Use Apple’s built-in Dictionary to quickly navigate to the world’s most popular online encyclopedia.

When photo journalist John McDermott covers a World Cup Soccer event, he can capture more than 1,000 images a day. And since his editor needs his best shots the very same day, McDermott needs to edit his photos even more quickly than he took them. Watch the video now playing on the Aperture site and find out how Aperture helps McDermott make his final selects quickly, easily, and enjoyably.

She hadn’t released a new album in five years. But that spell ended dramatically when singer/songwriter Erykah Badu sat down in front of her MacBook and fired up GarageBand. The music surged. “I learned how to use GarageBand by trial and error,” Badu says. “It’s like somebody stuck a plug in the back of my neck and uploaded a program to learn how to use GarageBand. It was automatic. Everything on that Mac was automatic.”

If you’re browsing the web on a public computer, the last thing you want to do is leave personal information about yourself behind for others to discover. Of course, if you use Safari, you have a number of ways to safeguard your privacy while browsing publicly. Read about them in this week’s Pro Tip of the Week.