During the WWDC 2007, Apple announced that Mac OS X Leopard is scheduled to ship Fall (Oct) 2007. Mac OS X Leopard is priced USD$129 for a single user license. The Mac OS X Leopard Family Pack is a single-residence, five-user license that will be available for a suggested retail price of USD$199. Leopard introduces over 300 […]Read More
It appears the folks at DivX Inc are giving away DivX Pro licenses for a limited. The only catch is that you have to exchange your email address to facilitate the emailing of the required Pro serial number to you. A worthwhile exchange, otherwise, worth USD$20.00. The Pro version gives you a free player, DivX Converter for batch encoding and the DivX […]Read More
Thanks to the folks at Doomlaser, you can now add a prank Kernal Panic screensaver to your collection of screensavers. If you’ve been fortunate enough never to have witnessed a Kernal Panic personally – a Kernal Panic is, if you like, the Mac equivalent of a Windows Blue Screen of Death and usually occurs when there’s a serious […]Read More
Apple’s latest Boot Camp beta is now into version 1.2. With improved driver support including support for Windows Vista. If you have already installed a previous version of Boot Camp, don’t fret. There’s no need to re-partition your hard drive; all that is needed is to download Boot Camp beta 1.2, install the updated Boot Camp […]Read More
As the title of this article suggest, we’re on the topic of the perceived “sudden battery drain”. In our experience, there is always the odd Mac newbie who exclaims this when they notice the battery meter in their menubar suddenly drop its readings. This is usually followed by a panic dash down to their local […]Read More
Since the latest Mac OS X 10.4.8 updates, some Macs have been affected with a strange malady. Unlike before, the Macs suffer an inability to automatically re-connect to preferred WiFi networks that have already been saved in the system’s WiFi list. This has been commonly reported to occur whenever the Mac is waking up from […]Read More
A little known, or reported bug has surfaced with the introduction of Intel Macs. Until now, MacRiot is unable to confirm whether this is an official bug but some MacIntel users have reported the inability for Mac OS X Tiger to remember the background colours set for particular Finder windows. Background colours can be set using the […]Read More
Apple has recently, unofficially introduced the inclusion of Dashcode 1.0 with the lastest version of Developer Tools contained as a standard package with the current Intel Macs. Dashcode is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Dashboard widget development. For the less IT initiated, an IDE is essentially an application that allows you to rapidly create another application or in […]Read More
Although, Mac OS X’s UNIX base renders it naturally immune to most virus and spyware attacks, there are still some simple steps that need to be implemented against, human access. From unwanted snoops or nosey parkers who happen to come across your unattended Mac. Truth be told, a Mac fresh out of the box is […]Read More
The introduction of the Mac Pro and Xserve going Intel completes the Mac line-up transition from PPC to Intel – legitimising the synomous phrase “MacIntel”. Mr Jobs has kept his promise this time, with the entire Mac line-up going Intel before the end of 2006. In stark contrast to the time when Mr Jobs promised a super fast PowerMac […]Read More
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