News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Last week, Apple released Aperture 3, a major new version that offers “over 200 new features,” according to the company’s Aperture page. Before you rush to upgrade, though, you might want to check out Apple’s Support site. Apple has already posted more than two dozen Knowledge Base articles citing various problems that you may confront with Aperture 3.
Ted Landau | Feb 22, 2010
A new Apple Knowledge Base article confirms that iWork software (Pages, Keynote, and Numbers)—as well as iLife’s iWeb ’09—may crash when running under Mac OS X 10.6.2. Or, as Apple puts it, the applications may “unexpectedly quit.” The fix is easy: Just do a Safe Boot (or again, as Apple also phrases it, “Startup your Mac in Safe Mode”). To do this, start up your Mac while holding down the Shift key. When done, restart again as normal. That’s it.
Ted Landau | Dec 14, 2009
When Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) was first released, I noted that many (maybe even all) third-party screensavers would no longer work in the new OS. This was because 10.6 required 64-bit compatible screensavers, whereas existing screensavers were 32 bit.
Ted Landau | Nov 23, 2009
Step 1: Take one of the best utilities ever created for the Mac; one that I use every day. Step 2: Enhance its latest version with a promising new feature. What do you get? Not necessarily what you might expect.
Ted Landau | Nov 16, 2009
Troubleshooting fonts is among my least favourite Mac tasks. Understanding precisely what is going on and what fix is needed too often seems a bit above my pay grade. Case in point: I recently launched Font Book for the first time since upgrading to Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6). I was surprised to find 16 “duplicate font” warnings. These had not been present when I had last opened Font Bonk in Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5).
Ted Landau | Oct 26, 2009
A cookie is a “small piece of text stored on a user’s computer by a Web browser.” If you ever have a problem that appears linked to a cookie in Safari, the standard solution is to go to Safari’s Preferences, select Security and click the Show Cookies button. From here, find the name of the cookie you want to delete and click to Remove it.
Ted Landau | Oct 19, 2009
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
