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September 11, 2007
Posted by Aaron Freedman at 5:04 PM
When VMWare Fusion got released, many Mac users were excited that this new competitor in the Mac virtual machine space would cause both the...
Tags: Parallels, update
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Posted by Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen at 4:37 PM
Tuesday seems to be the new release day for Apple's little and largely unexciting software and hardware updates; today brings not one, but two of...
Tags: hardware, keyboard, QuickTime, software updates
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September 8, 2007
Posted by Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen at 1:54 PM
Growl, a global notification system for OS X, has really enhanced the user experience for many third-party apps such as chat and FTP clients. It's...
Tags: freeware, Growl, software, updates
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Posted by Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen at 9:35 AM
Subcategory | iTunes
It didn't take long for Apple to update the latest version of iTunes: 7.4.1 is already out. This truly is a minor update, as Apple...
Tags: iPhone, iTunes, ringtones, software, updates
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September 7, 2007
Posted by Derik DeLong at 6:04 AM
Another day, another minor Apple software update. They’re sparing no expense for writers to craft such a carefully worded description that it’s one mere...
Tags: Final Cut Studio, haiku, software update
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September 6, 2007
Posted by Dan Moren at 9:18 AM
Subcategory | Games
This will hardly be the first time I've declaimed my love for Ambrosia Software's food of the gods games, but I was especially pleased this...
Tags: games, software, Universal Binary
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Posted by Dan Moren at 8:17 AM
Subcategory | iTunes
As updates to iTunes go, 7.4 whelms in an underly sort of fashion. The marquee feature might be ringtones, but you'll be hard-pressed to find...
Tags: iTunes, music, software, updates
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September 4, 2007
Posted by Derik DeLong at 5:16 AM
We’ve been talking up MarsEdit for a long time as an essential blogging tool here for a while as well as gushed all over...
Tags: blogging, Flickr, MarsEdit, Red Sweater
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August 30, 2007
Posted by Derik DeLong at 5:24 AM
Transmit is still my favorite FTP program. Interarchy has been giving it a run for its money though, particularly as it had one advantage,...
Tags: Amazon S3, FTP, Interarchy, Transmit
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August 29, 2007
Posted by Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen at 5:39 PM
Proud owners of the AirPort Extreme Base Station will be glad to know Apple today issued a firmware update for it. The big thing...
Tags: 802.11n, AirPort, Airport Extreme Base Station, Draft 2.0, wireless
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Posted by Derik DeLong at 5:24 AM
I got my Powerbook before Apple came up with its own solution for scrolling using the trackpad. With such a tiny screen, you can...
Tags: Leopard, scrolling, trackpad
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August 28, 2007
Posted by Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen at 3:16 PM
Right in the footsteps of minor updates to iWeb and iMovie '08 follows iPhoto 7.0.2, already the second revision of iPhoto '08 (the first,...
Tags: haiku, iLife, iPhoto, software, update
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Posted by Dan Moren at 8:35 AM
Back to back days of Mac/Lego news? My heart cannot contain the joy that wants to surge outwards from it. It is...too much. I haven't...
Tags: Lego, software, Universal, updates
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Posted by Derik DeLong at 6:31 AM
Starting with college, I’ve had a number of PDF documents that I’ve needed to read. Acrobat Reader (now known as Adobe Reader) and later...
Tags: education, notes, PDF, Skim
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August 27, 2007
Posted by Dan Moren at 11:59 AM
As much as we love the built-in iSight that comes on most new Macs (it's great for quick wacky pictures), it certainly has its share...
Tags: iGlasses, software, updates, video
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