Apr 08
This week we talk about how to back up your Mac with Jack Moore and Billy Hime
Feb 13
OK, so sorry for the terrible photography pun there folks, but I’m in a good mood today and therefore you lovely readers get all my most cheesy puns!
So, Apple have a little ‘pro’ photography app called Aperture and they’ve just updated this to version 2.0, which from reading various blogs and hearing photographers on various podcasts, is about time.
Feb 13
On Monday Apple released the Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopard update. The update is 180 MB and can be downloaded from your Mac’s Software Update. Some key features of this update are[via MacRumors]:
- Airport: Improves connection reliability and stability
- Back to my Mac: Adds support for more third-party routers, as detailed in this article.
- Dock: Updates Stacks with a List view option, a Folder view option, and an updated background for Grid view.
- Desktop: Addresses legibility issues with the menu bar with an option to turn off transparency in Desktop & Screen Saver preferences.
- Desktop: Adjusts menus to be slightly-less translucent overall.
- iSync: Adds support for Samsung D600E and D900i phones.
- RAW Image: Adds RAW image support for several cameras, as detailed in this article.
- Safari: Addresses issues with Safari reliably resolving certain domains.
- Time Machine: Adds a menu bar option for accessing Time Machine features (the menu extra can be enabled in Time Machine preferences).
- Time Machine: Improves backup reliability when computer name contains slash or non-ASCII characters.
- Time Machine: Addresses issues in which some external drives are not recognized by Time Machine.
For full information about this update, please go to Apple.
Personally, I have updated both my Mac’s. PowerMac G5 and PowerBook G4, and so far they are running fine. I am now using WebKit, which is an open source web browser engine. Web Kit gives you nightly builds, and lets you see the future of the best browser for the Mac OS, Safari. As for other improvements, I like having things in my menu bar, and now, there is an icon for Time Machine in the menu bar. Only thing now, I need to re-format one of my external hard drives, and back-up regularly. I have not played with the new stacks feature, but I just updated on Monday, so I still need time to play.
Jan 27
Sorry about the lateness of software Saturday and other posts
If you subscribe to many blogs or feeds for podcasts then ,if like me, you haven’t moved away from Safari for ages and have all your bookmarks and feeds saved on that you may want to reconsider using it as your main feed reader now NetNewsWire has gone free.
NetNewsWire is probably in my opinion the best RSS reader out there. If you have been using Safari then you will probably find it a hassle to have to load every feed individually and making all those clicks if you put them in a folder to load each feed can be a pain.
Jan 19
Note:If you wish to use MacHeist Please use this link.
If you have not heard of Mac Heist then you need to learn about it now.
Mac Heist is a 2 week sale on some of the best Apps that are out their for the Mac at a price that is insanely low. For £25 you can get a collection of applications that are normally valued at around £200. That is INSANE.
The bundle has only 4 days left but here is my basic run down of the software. I will be reviewing these in software saturdays to come so save the money and get them now.
Jan 05
Here we are again new year new Software Saturday!
This year I have started to use the popular web 2.0 service Twitter and to make that process easier I have started to use a piece of software called Twitterific.
Nov 20
Hi folks, hope you’re all well, sorry you haven’t heard from us on the blog in a while, we’ve all been a bit busy, either being ill, working hard, or revising for GCSEs (good luck Chris). We are aiming to start regular posts as soon as we can. Today I thought I’d bring you the news that Apple’s mid-range video product ‘Final Cut Express’ has been updated to version 4, adding support for ADVC camcorders and the ‘Open Timeline’ that was introduced with ‘Final Cut Studio 2′. There also appears to be some tweaks to the Soundtrack application, although no mention of any update to LiveType as yet. To read all the details for yourself go to this Apple product page. Pricing has also had an update, bringing this great video package down to a more affordable next step from iMovie. Continue reading »
Nov 14
If you have so far been on Tiger and not moving up straight away the long awaited 10.4.11 landed for me today and we can now update finally. If you have stuck then hit that software update and get your updated OS. I recommend you do a back up first. Also iPhoto has been updated for those who have upgraded to Leopard we have an iPhoto Leopard aswell so check it out.
Nov 10
It has been two weeks since my last software Saturday and it has been a very hectic week around here thus less posts and no MacLive show out. I have had a lot going on recently and hopefully it should all get back to normal soon but now back to Software Saturday.
Here is my first of the second season of Software Saturday to help those of you who have purchased an iPhone, “iToner“
Oct 30
The following is taken from the offical PR release:
CUPERTINO, California—October 30, 2007—Apple® today announced that it sold (or delivered in the case of maintenance agreements) over two million copies of Mac OS® X Leopard since its release on Friday, far outpacing the first-weekend sales of Mac OS X Tiger, which was previously the most successful OS release in Apple’s history. Sales included copies sold at Apple’s retail stores, Apple Authorized Resellers, the online Apple Store®, under maintenance agreements and bundled with new Mac® computers. Leopard is the sixth major release of Mac OS X and is packed with more than 300 new features. Continue reading »
