10 January 2006, Apple issued the Aluminum PowerBook (15-inch) Battery Update 1.0, applicable to PowerBook G4 (15-inch Double-Layer SD) computers. This update is issued to address the reported battery failures in this particular model of PowerBook G4 as documented in our earlier article. For some of us the update came into our Mac systems via Mac OS […]
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 and in most models of Mac portables from the iBook G3 line onwards, Read More
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 outperform the current Apple PowerPC G4 line by as much as 4 times! Following Apple CEO, Read More
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 a 29.1MB application. Now, all of us can pretend to be astronauts.Read More
DivX 6.0 has been released and is now compatible (finally!) with QuickTime 6.0 and 7.0 and Mac OS X 10.3 and later. Get your free trial now that comes with: a free 15-day trial of the DivX Converter; DivX codec (with free 6-month trial of pro features)* and; DivX video playback support* * The DivX Read More
You can choose your preference of View Options and if you’re like me you’d like to view everything at a glance. This can easily be enabled in the Finder View menu by opening the Show View Options window and checking the relevant boxes. Two of my personal Read More
Released in November 2005, Apple’s Broadband Tuner increases the default values for the size of the TCP send and receive buffers. With larger buffers more data can be in transit at once. A startup configuration file is also updated so that these changes will persist across restarts. Download Broadband Tuner Read More
Thanks to Titanium Software, now you can easily carry out maintenance, optimisation, and personalization on Mac OS X. Commands that otherwise, must be carried out using UNIX command line executions are now accessible through the OnyX GUI interface. It also makes it possible to configure certain hidden parameters of the Read More
What began as an audio podcast from the guys at Inside Mac has now evolved into a combination of audio and video podcasts. Delivering regular news and updates from the Mac world right to your iPod Video screens that can be carried with you wherever you bring your iPod Video. Read More
Austria’s son, Phil Dow has become one of our heros. Not only has he created an absolutely fantastic application for Journaling on Mac OS X; he’s offered it to the world for free! Whoever said philanthropy doesn’t exist in the world anymore, has another think coming. Having Read More
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