News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
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MacFriendly, a company known for releasing bundles of apps at far lower prices than their combined values, has released its latest bundle of goods, MacFriendly 3. This latest bundle consists of 12 handy applications for Mac users. While the bundle is valued at over $US400 ($A440), MacFriendly is selling it for $US50 ($A55), which represents a savings of over 85 percent off the list prices. Of course, the catch is that you might not actually want to use all of the apps.
If a few of the bundled apps do happen to catch your fancy, you could be in for some pretty nice savings. For example, Twisted Wave, an audio-editing app included in the bundle, retails for $US80 ($A88) on its own—so if you're interested in just that particular app, MacFriendly will actually save you money. Other app highlights include CrossOver Mac, a Windows-to-Macintosh compatibility tool; Calico Panorama, an automatic multi-row panorama stitcher; and MovieSherlock, which lets you download and convert YouTube movies. The different apps have varying system requirements, but most seem to support OS X 10.4.x or higher.
MacFriendly is sweetening the deal even more by donating a portion of each sale to support animal rescue programs. MacFriendly bundles might not have everything you're looking for, but they're always worth checking out—if you're interested in more than a few of the apps, you're likely to save big. Alas, good things don't last forever, and this current offer will end on February 26th.
Critical vulnerabilities remain in Apple’s iCal calendar program, a security company said in an advisory that showed months of back-and-forth between Apple and the researchers over whether bugs were serious enough to warrant patches, and if so, when Apple would patch them. After several delays requested by Apple, the security vendor put its foot down and told the company’s security team it would release information about the vulnerabilities May 21, whether Apple had issued patches or not.
Gregg Keizer | May 23, 2008
Apple has updated Mac OS X 10.5, fixing 70 issues with the operating system and its components. Among the changes in Mac OS X 10.5.3 are several fixes for Apple’s Time Machine backup application. The update addresses compatibility issues with the Time Capsule backup device as well as compatibility issues with Aperture 2, Apple’s workflow application for photographers. The OS update aims to improve reliability when doing a full restore from a Time Machine backup, and an alert message incorrectly stating that a backup volume doesn’t have enough space has been fixed. Apple’s virtual desktop application, Spaces, received some minor updates in 10.5.3. A problem that could cause the reordering of application windows when switching desktops and then switching back has been fixed. The update also tackled an issue where pressing Command-Tab may have incorrectly switched users to a new space. The update also bolsters reliability for .Mac syncing.
Jim Dalrymple | May 29, 2008
Quark has just announced the next major version of its page-layout software, QuarkXPress 8. The new version, which will be available in the next 60 days, will offer many enhancements including a new interface and built-in Flash authoring. According to Quark, the QuarkXPress product team spent a lot of time with designers to determine how they work and figure out what to change in QuarkXPress 8 to help them.
Jim Dalrymple | May 29, 2008
In a Worldwide Developers Conference keynote dominated by iPhone news, Steve Jobs did offer bit of OS X-centric news to attendees: The next version of OS X is code-named Snow Leopard. But that’s all Apple disclosed about the new OS during the hour-and-44-minute keynote. Jobs said more information would be available during the conference’s afternoon OS X State of the Union session; however, like every WWDC session save for the keynote, that discussion is held away from the public eye with its contents covered by a non-disclosure agreement that prevents attendees from talking about what they’re told.
Rob Griffiths | Jun 10, 2008
App Store developers will now be able to reach customers in 13 new countries, according to an announcement on the iPhone Developer Program news page.
