Month: August 2009
Snow Leopard: Which Apps Won’t Run?
As the new OS is installed on more and more Macs tales of incompatibilities are starting to emerge.
Is Apple the Enemy of the TV Industry? Microsoft Thinks So
Music’s long struggle with the web has been well documented. As consumers shifted from CDs to digital media, music labels, artists, and the RIAA have struggled with how to cope. While some have decided to sue consumers for $22,500 per song, others have found ways to embrace the web.
Top Tips and Tricks for iLife Beginners
If you’ve been using iLife but feeling there was something missing that would really complete your user experience, it may well be that it’s there, you just haven’t found it yet. Did you know for example that you can embed Google adverts in your iWeb pages, or that GarageBand lets you place clickable web links into a podcast?
20 best new features in OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
20 best new features in OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard So you think Apple’s new OS has little to offer? Think again,.
64-bit Snow Leopard Defaults to 32-bit Kernel – A Workaround
Apple’s updated OS ships with a number of 64-bit native applications, but Apple’s kernel itself defaults to 32-bit, unless the user holds down the ‘6’ and ‘4’ keys during boot time.
Overheating iPhones ‘exploding’ in France, Apple responds
Reports of iPhones exploding, starting fires and killing people in cold blood have been around since the inception of the handset. They’ve also been relatively sporadic, seemingly short on evidence, and Apple hasn’t given complaints much credence or response.
Rumor: Apple May Be Working on XL Tablets Running Full OS X
This one caught us by surprise, but it comes from a source that has always been 100% reliable: Not only Apple may be working on a 10-inch tablet, but also in 13′ and 15′ models, one running Mac OS X.
Stalking Your Ex Girlfriend? New iPhone Apps Make It Easy
Hilarious new iPhone commercial.
Snow Leopard “a software platform for the future”
Reviewer Stephen H. Wildstrom (businessweek.com) calls Snow Leopard an “inexpensive and painless upgrade” that “also completes the transition from 32-bit to 64-bit computing, which enhances performance and allows the use of vast amounts of memory. Apple has pulled it off seamlessly.”
Mac OS X Snow Leopard best of breed
In a comprehensive Snow Leopard review, Michael Gartenberg (slashgear.com) writes: “Apple has evolved the OS in ways that change core infrastructure while preserving and refining the experience that has differentiated the platform over the years. The result is an elegant, modern OS with some new features that help it retain the status of best of breed in personal computing.”
New Logic Studio an “easy choice”
Calling out significant new Logic Studio features such as flexible audio editing, streamlined audio production, expanded guitar amps and effects, and enhanced MainStage live-performance capabilities, reviewer Peter Kirn (macworld.com) awards it 4.5/5 mice. Writes Kirn: “The choice is easy: Logic Pro 9 should not be missed.”
What to Expect From Apple’s September iPod Event
Let’s be frank: We all know Apple’s hosting a September event, as it has for the past several years. But this year’s keynote is shaping up to be a bit… Read more »
iPhones for the Blind
Led by a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, an international group of researchers is hoping the same technology that could provide amputees an artificial arm could help blind people… Read more »
What Caused This iMac to Suddently Start Smoking?
A reporter at Chinese tech news site, cnBeta, says he was just chatting away when white smoke started coming out from behind his iMac, turning black just as he cut… Read more »