The long-awaited day came and I headed down to my local Apple Store to get a new iMac and a 16GB iPod Touch to take advantage of Apple’s back-to-school promo. (It might be a sign that I have been waiting so long for this that my daughter’s first word was Apple.) Many of you, like [...]
Apple is on a software-release roll. Yesterday they released Leopard 10.5.2 and today they have released Aperture 2.
Aperture is Apple’s pro-level photograph editing and management software that has been picking up a lot of steam in the past couple of years.
There are over 100 new features in Aperture 2, some of which are:
Updated user interface
Quick [...]
Apple has just released 10.5.2 via Software Update.
There are a slew of changes/fixes, some of which are:
Improved Airport connection reliability and stability
Improved Dashboard widget performance
Updated Stacks with a List view option, a Folder view option, and an updated background for Grid view
Ability to turn off transparency of menu bar
Reduction in overall menu transparency
Adds a menu [...]
So, as indicated, I finally switched to Leopard (went from 10.4.11 to 10.5.1 to be precise). As with previous operating system installs, I also took the opportunity to upgrade the internal drive in my MacBook Pro, this time kicking it up to 320GB with the new WD Scorpio WD3200BEVT (it has turned out to be [...]
Apple managed to sneak a few security updates in at the tail end of December and Security Update 2007-09 adds 41 to the CVE totals for OS X in general, with 31 for 10.4 (Tiger), and only 20 for OS X 10.5 (Leopard). This is in addition to the Java and QuickTime updates released on [...]
I have two older Macs at home, a Powerbook G4-1.5Ghz and an iMac G5-1.8Ghz (both purchased in 2004 and now out of AppleCare). When I was given the opportunity to upgrade the DVD-burner in ether of those machines with the FastMac Optical Drive Upgrade Kit ($149.95), I jumped at the opportunity. Burning CDs or DVDs [...]
For the most part, I find Apple’s marketing messages to be clever, engaging and somewhat accurate. Usually, pretty imagery accompanied by a five to eight word sentence is enough to make me drool and start fumbling around for my wallet to fork over my hard earned cash.
But then there are times where Apple’s wording misses [...]
I was one of the many loyal enthusiasts that pre-ordered Leopard and couldn’t wait to install it on all my Macs. Unfortunately for me, it didn’t work out that way.
If you haven’t heard of the installation problems with Leopard yet, there are a few. It seems the very popular third-party application Application Enhancer does not [...]
MacWorld UK is reporting that Apple has quietly released updated MacBook and MacBook Pros. The new versions are available in up to Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6Ghz. The front side bus speed is now 800Mhz, from 667Mhz. MacBooks have an upgraded video card, with up to 144MB of memory shared with the main memory, up [...]
There are some things you can do prior to installing that I sometimes recommend. Many of these things are not guaranteed to work (and some people actually say will do more harm than good). I, for one, don’t see an issue with the basics that some recommend: Start by repairing permissions: either run Disk Utility [...]
When entering college in 1995, I purchased my first computer that was all mine - a Performa 631CD, with screaming 33 MHz performance and a 68040LC processor. Sporting 8 MB of RAM and 500 MB of hard drive space, I was good to go. But unsurprisingly, I was immediately lapped, not just by the next [...]
