About the author
Rina Jans is my name. I reside in a town in the North of the Netherlands with my two Roborovski dwarf hamsters and a gold fish family. I first came into contact with the Apple Macintosh at an Academy of Art. I immediately fell in love with the friendly machine. Since 1992, I've been working as a desktop publisher and graphic designer.
I've also worked at an Apple Dealer for three and a half years and as a VOIP and Windows helpdesk operator. In 2005 I took the AppleCare Technician Training at Apple.com.
In about 1998, my first Mac OS tutorial came online: a troubleshooting and internet guide for Mac OS 8 and 9. Three years later I developed a tutorial for Mac OS X. I trie to aim ad Mac - newbies and more experienced users and, later on at switchers.
Since I'm online, my nickname has been 'MacMiep'. "Mac" is obivous, but "Miep" comes from the Dutch pronounciation of "Meep Meep"- from the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote cartoons.
Translated into English this becomes "Macmeep" and there's the name of this website, together with "Macosxtutorial.com". The original website resides on http://www.macmiep.nl. You can use the Dutch flags to navigate to the Dutch version of every chapter.
This English translation of the original Macmiep.nl website is a work in progress.
Thank you Ruud Ravenhorst and sister-in-law.
Greetz,
Rina Jans for Macmiep.nl
MacMiep dedicates this free online MacOS X tutorial to all those developers who write freeware and shareware for the Mac. I have no programming skills. This my contribution to the Mac-community.
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