Article: The Blogger.(Budget Mac)

THE SETUP

Whether you're a software developer offering tech support, a teacher enhancing a high-school curriculum, or a chef-for-hire demonstrating your flambe skills, you need a way to reach your audience. These days, that means setting up a blog--preferably one that features video and podcasts as well as text. Starting a multimedia blog isn't hard. Mainly, you need tools for creating and capturing content and the means for staying up-to-date in your area of expertise. In my case, that's technology.

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Because of the multimedia aspects of the task, you'll need a reasonably powerful Mac. I started with a 13-inch MacBook, but ...

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