News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
With Aperture 3’s release a scant two weeks ago you might not have expected the imminent release of Aperture 3.0.1 on Wednesday—unless of course you had actually been using Aperture 3. The much anticipated update should hopefully fix the memory-devouring issues that many users have been seeing as well as bringing a chocolate-box assortment of other tweaks and enhancements.
Dan Moren | Feb 25, 2010
Firefox fans, start your browsers. On Thursday, Mozilla released Firefox 3.6, the latest update to its popular Web browser, bringing fixes, enhancements, and new features to the Web-surfing masses.
Dan Moren | Jan 22, 2010
Need to access your home Mac while you’re nowhere near it? If you’ve got a Mac laptop with you, a clever combination of Mac OS X’s built-in Screen Sharing, Dynamic DNS, and strategically configured firewalls can make that happen. But, if you don’t want the hassle of dealing with them, or you’re reliant on somebody else’s Mac or—heavens forbid—a PC, you may need something more like Citrix’s GoToMyPC.
Dan Moren | Jan 15, 2010
On Monday, Apple released Mac OS X 10.6.2, the latest update to its Mac OS X operating system. As you might surmise, it contains a number of fixes and feature enhancements for the newest big cat. Apple, as always, recommends 10.6.2 for all users running Snow Leopard.
Dan Moren | Nov 10, 2009
Ecamm Network’s PhoneView is already one of the best tools you can put on your Mac for interfacing with your iPhone. Need to retrieve music? Grab camera photos? View your call history? Create, edit, and save notes? PhoneView can do all that and, with the latest update to version 2.3, it’s added a few tricks up its tastefully tailored sleeves.
Dan Moren | Oct 16, 2009
It’s been a long time coming, but after promises, previews, and unexpected leaks, BlackBerry officially released the desktop Mac client for its popular smartphone platform on Friday.
Dan Moren | Oct 6, 2009
Today’s Tom Sawyer, he gets high on you, and the space he invades is your personal computer. Well, if you’re using GarageBand ’09, anyway. The GarageBand Lesson Store has added three new lessons to its arsenal, including the classic tune by the Canadian progressive rock band.
Dan Moren | Sep 23, 2009
It looks like id Software is at last ready to deliver on its promise of providing quality browser-based fragging to Mac users. Speaking at this past week’s QuakeCon 2009, id CEO Todd Hollenshead said Quake Live is expanding to Mac and Linux platforms on August 18.
Dan Moren | Aug 17, 2009
While the iPhone-app market has gone ga-ga for Twitter, the social networking service that lets you send 140-character messages, Mac developers have been less prolific. Tweetie, from Atebits, has gone the unusual route of jumping from iPhone app to full-blown Mac OS X program. This lineage shows, too: as pretty as the program is, at times it makes interface decisions that don't quite fit with established Mac conventions.
Dan Moren | Aug 12, 2009
Attention VoIPers everywhere: the latest version of Skype, 2.8, is finally out of beta. We discussed the software in its preview form back in January, but with its release into primetime, it’s brought a few new features with it.
Dan Moren | Jul 22, 2009
Good as Leopard's Time Machine is for backing up your Mac, it depends largely on storing your information locally. Should, heaven forbid, something terrible happen to the place where you keep your computer and your backup drive, then there goes all your data. That’s where the importance of an off-site backup becomes quickly apparent.
Dan Moren | Jul 22, 2009
It’s a slow winter news week, so what better time for Apple to roll out a minor point release? On Wednesday, the company released iTunes 8.2.1. What exciting things come packaged beneath its calm outward exterior? Excellent question—we have no idea!
Dan Moren | Jul 16, 2009
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.
