On Wednesday, 07 September at a special event in San Francisco Apple has finally unveiled the long-awaited iTunes phone. A collaboration between Apple and US cell phone giant, Motorola – the ROKR (pronounced “rocker”). Current iPod Mini owners are also expected to be wooed by Apple’s iPod Mini replacement, the iPod nano, retailing from USD$199. Holding up to […]
Some times, when performing a task we often see the ‘spinning beach ball’ (no, not the icon spinning next to the title of this post, that’s purely for decorative purposes but the multi-coloured ball you see in replacement for your regular mouse pointer) indicating that your Mac’s doing Read More
A couple of years ago, the DivX video codec came onto the scene as a high compression standard for video. Along with it features that proposed to provide similar features and functions you would expect to find in your common DVD movie. Effectively, touting to bring DVD quality video over Read More
The latest tech news channels have been a buzz with the embarrassing news that Microsoft has beaten Apple to the Patent offce. Apple launched the iPod in November 2001 but Apple failed to file patents until July 2002. Owing to this mess up, Microsoft, which filed patents in May 2002 is now claiming Read More
Microsoft has released the latest version of its Mac OS X compatible MSN Messenger 5.0. Now, with a re-designed interface that matches the Max OS X theme, MSN Messenger fits harmoniously with your other Mac OS X applications. MSN Messenger 5.0 also comes with new features, including Secure Messaging, Public IM Support Read More
As described in our earlier articles, upgrading to iTunes 4.9 can render some of your files unusable to some degree. If you don’t fancy geek means (as suggested in our earlier article) to fix the issue, here’s another quick work around. Firstly, you have to figure out which files Read More
One of the things they don’t teach you in iTunes is how to toggle a bunch of tune checkboxes in a go. Most of us would have had the experience of manually unchecking and checking the checkboxes individually. The solution is actually quite simple. To toggle all the Read More
If you haven’t already upgraded to iTunes 4.9, our advice is to hold out unless you desperately MUST have the latest iTunes from Apple. User reports have been on the rise. It seems that the introduction of the ability to play movies within iTunes has caused several issues in iTunes 4.9. Read More
Here’s our rare (and very brief) account of Windows-related development. We just thought the Mac crowd might want to know where they stand in the Operating System (OS) Wars. The successor to Windows XP was code named ‘Longhorn’ several years back and rumour has it Microsoft had a big Read More
Just when we thought Apple has slowed down its product development, enter the spanking new Apple Mighty Mouse. Included for the first time in Apple’s history, is a mouse that is capable of 360 degree scrolling and programmable buttons. Optimised for Mac OS X Tiger and is PC-compatible. Eat your Read More
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