If you go to Apple’s website at www.apple.com you will see it proclaim “Tomorrow is just another day. That you’ll never forget”, telling visitors to come back for an exciting announcement from iTunes. The front page lists the time in different locations as to when the announcement will be revealed: 7AM in California, 10AM in [...]
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Safari 5.0.2 for Snow Leopard, Leopard, and Windows contains improvements to compatibility and security: Fixes an issue that could prevent users from submitting web forms Fixes an issue that could cause web content to display incorrectly when viewing a Google Image result with Flash 10.1 installed Establishes an encrypted, authenticated connection to the Safari Extensions [...]
iTunes 9.2 is out
Jun 17
Hot on the heels of Mac OS X 10.6.4, Apple released an update to their multimedia management application. With this update, iTunes not only will manage your songs, movies, TV shows, audiobooks, and podcasts, it will now manage your PDFs. One of iTunes 9.2′s new feature is organizing and syncing PDF documents as books. PDFs [...]
A little more than a week after the release of Steam for Mac and offering Portal for free, Valve announced the availability of Half-Life 2 and its two expansion packs, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Lfe 2: Episode Two, on their Steam gaming store. As a special treat, Valve is offering 30% off the regular [...]
Valve Corporation released the Mac version of their digital distribution platform, Steam, last May 12th. This lets Mac owners download and play hit titles such as Half-Life, Team Fortress and Left 4 Dead natively on their machines. To help celebrate the release of Steam for the Mac, Valve offered one of their acclaimed games as [...]
Boot Camp updates
Jan 20
Boot Camp Utility for Windows 7 Upgrade Installation Utility is to be used before upgrading from Vista to Windows 7. This utility safely unmounts the read-only Macintosh volume on Microsoft Vista. This addresses the issue where using Boot Camp 3.1 or later, upgrading from Microsoft Vista to Windows 7 will result in an alert with [...]
Apple has just released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 version 6 and Mac OS X 10.6 version 1 updates. The Java update for Leopard disables Java version 1.4.2 since it’s no longer being updated for bug fixes and security issues. Mac OS X 10.5 version 6 delivers improved reliability, security, and compatibility for J2SE [...]
How does getting 84% off on $251 worth of awesome graphics applications for the Mac sound? The MacGraPhoto bundle features seven different apps for editing, enhancing, geotagging, and converting images and graphics for only $39.99. The bundle includes the following: Picturesque (Original price $30) Easily enhance pictures with an awesome 3D perspective, 1-click Reflections, curves, [...]
iPhoto 8.1.1 update released
Nov 25
Apple just released iPhoto 8.1.1 and addresses issues affecting face recognition performance and accuracy. It also fixes minor issues in the areas of book ordering, and incorrect displaying of the icon for iPod touch (2nd Generation). Apple advises the following after doing the update: If you imported photos of people while using iPhoto 8.1, there’s [...]
For a limited time only, get 1Password Pro for iPhone for free! Agile Web Solutions announced yesterday that they are offering the pro version of their password management app for the iPhone and iPod touch as a free download`. 1Password Pro is regularly priced at $7.99, but it’s going to have the fantastic price of [...]
Apple just released Boot Camp Drivers Update 2.2 for Windows which addresses issues with the Apple trackpad and turns off the red digital audio port LED on laptop computers when it is not being used. It also includes support for the Apple Magic mouse and wireless keyboard. It is intended only for use with Microsoft [...]
Apple just released QuickTime 7.6.5 for Windows which addresses the following issues: Applications not reliably loading libraries required by QuickTime at startup Incorrect display of QuickTime movies embedded in a webpage using custom scale attributes The update is available at Apple’s Support Download page (30.99MB).
Safari update 4.0.4 released
Nov 12
Almost a month ago I ditched Safari 4 in favor of Firefox 3.5 as Safari was causing my system to stutter whenever I had more than 10 tabs open. I am about to switch to Chrome and try it out for a month to see which browser performs the best under my use. Today, however, [...]
MacHeist is at it again and this time they’re offering a bundle of apps at the fantastic price of free! Called MacHeist nanoBundle, this offer bundles together six different apps and a participant doesn’t need to do anything except provide their name and email address. The participant has the option to which app they will [...]
