Getting Videos Into Your iPod Video
Apple’s iPod Video was designed to work in tandem with Apple’s iTunes Music Store (ITM). The premise was, a customer gets an iPod Video and then proceeds to feed it videos from ITM. What about…
Mac OS X
Battery Care And Keeping Charge Cycles Low
There are a plethora of myths about batteries. Lithium-ion or Nickel-based batteries, they all share one thing in common – charge cycles. Apple’s definition of ‘charge cycles’ can be found at Apple’s Lithium-ion Battery care page and it…
Basilisk II PSP Port (Mac Emulator)
In the constantly evolving IT jungle, its becoming harder and harder to make a name for oneself. One way to go about doing this, is to create something so mind blowing that your name becomes…
PSP, Nullriver’s PSPWare
Nullriver Software has come up with a solution for Sony PSP users to enable their PSP’s to live alongside their Macs. Enter,… PSPWare, a sync’ing solution for PSP-Mac. You can download the free trial and if…
Dashboard, Putting Widgets On Your Desktop
Something Mac developers have been able to do since the introduction of Dashboard can now be accessed by everyone. Just follow these simple steps and you can place your Dashboard widgets right on your desktop….
Windows Media Player (Mac) Windows Media Components For QuickTime
Telestream, the company that pioneered high-quality media exchange over IP networks, has given Mac users the gift of being able to play Windows Media (.wma and .wmv) files right from our QuickTime players. Dispensing the…
Mac OS X 10.4.4, Missed Out Fast User Switching Bug
Although, Mac OS X software update release 10.4.4 was touted to address over 183 known bugs that remain unresolved in update 10.4.3, the fast user switching bug seems to persist and remain, un-attended to. The…
PowerBook, Resetting Power Management Unit (PMU)
If you press the power button on your Mac portable and it fails to power up, it can be due to a misbehaving Power Management Unit (PMU). One of the self-help remedies is to reset the PMU…
Go MacBook Pro? (Part 1) — The Semantic Shift
Apple has done it again. The Apple rumour mill was a buzz with snippets of what an Intel Mac might look like but no one guessed that Apple would roll out a system that would…
Google Earth Now Available For Mac OS X 10.4
Its taken a while but Google has released their Mac OS X 10.4 version of their popular satelite imaging software, Google Earth. A whopping 12.5MB download from Google’s Google Earth download page. Once downloaded it installs into…