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, Steve Job’s, keynote speech at MacWorld […]
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
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
The guys who created Adium have come up with a winner. In a world where IM’s are the single biggest source of office inefficiency, Adium is the ultimate downfall for office efficiency. Supporting almost all IM formats currently available to the masses, Adium is the Swiss knife of IMs. Read More
Apple’s vision of creating computers that we can store our ‘digital lives’ on has reached its boiling point where most of us are doing just that. But what happens when the hardware fails? — a question often only realised when the hardware fails and important data is lost forever. Although, Read More
Little Snitch, from Objective Development, has been around for some time now, and recently received an update to be Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger compatible. Unlike traditional firewalls Little Snitch allows you to filter connections based on the application which attempts the connection. And to make it even more handy, Little Read More
The Apple Airport Management Tools package’s existence at Apple’s download pages were short-lived. Shortly after it was launched some users reported issues which promptly sent it packing and it got taken off Apple’s download page. In fact, even some of the most ardent Mac fans have no Read More
Mac OS X generates quite a substantial pool of log files during its operation life. Typical of any UNIX-based operating system. These log files are used by Mac technicians to isolate errors or quirks in the operating system’s performance. Enabling efficient troubleshooting. Ordinarily, Mac OS X clears log files Read More
We recently received an email query regarding software that can be used on Mac OS X that would playback dvf format (a Sony proprietary format for compressed voice files) audio files. Apparently, originally used to record a meeting’s conversation. The user received dvf audio files for reference that could Read More
There have been mixed emotions since Apple’s introduction of its ‘iTunes phone’ (ROKR) during its September 2005 unveiling ceremony at the infamous San Francisco, Moscone Center. Undoubtedly, some of us imagined a sleek, slim and impeccably industrial designed phone whilst others still stand sceptical over Motorola’s cell phone software Read More
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