Show notes for Mac Geek Gab Podcast For Monday, December 31st, 2007 Direct Links: MP3 Version or AAC Enhanced Version (courtesy of Michael Johnston of iPhone Alley). Today’s discussion finds John and Dave talking and sharing tips about best practices surrounding getting a new Mac, how to speed up Mail.app, a little more on sleep,…
DockStar 2.1 Adds RSS, To-Do Support
Ecamm Network announced the immediate availability of DockStar 2.1 on Friday. The update added the ability to monitor Mail’s RSS feeds and To-Do items, added clickable indicators to the menu bar, and improved Smart Mailbox support for Mac OS X 10.5. DockStar2.1 DockStar is a utility that adds badges that track email messages to Mail’s…
Leopard: Regaining the Dock's Hierarchical Menus
One application that returns hierarchical menus to Leopardis Dock is the free HierarchicalDock from Eternal Storms Software. This app creates special folder icons for your Dock that act like the hierarchical menus from pre-Leopard days. Just drag a folder into the HierarchicalDock window, and then drag it to your Dock. Leopardis Stacks…
AAPL Clears $198
Apple left a nice stocking stuffer for investors on Monday when the company’s stock closed at a new high of US$198.80. The Mac, iPod and iPhone maker’s stock climbed $3.80 during the day from its opening $195 price, and $4.89 from its $193.91 closing price on Friday. As of closing on Monday, Apple’s market cap…
Leopard: Auto Quit Print Spools
If you donit want the printer spool icon to stay in the Dock after you are done printing, you can force the icon to behave just as it did in pre-Leopard days. Hereis how: Click and hold on the printer icon in the Dock. Choose Auto Quit from the pop-up contextual menu. Auto quitting a…
The Storytelling Game
Some stories told while innocent logs were reduced to ash were claimed to be true, and they had their own place in campfire ceremonies, but the best stories were made up, and the very best were those that were made up on the fly. In fact, a perfect venue for off-the-cuff storytelling was the family…
Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #133: System Updates, iPhoto Import, Router Issues and Santa
Show notes for Mac Geek Gab Podcast For Monday, December 24th, 2007 Direct Links: MP3 Version or AAC Enhanced Version (coming soon courtesy of Michael Johnston of iPhone Alley). Christmas Eve finds John and Dave talking about System Updates, resolving issues with iPhoto imports, diagnosing a flaky router, and tracking Santa! Subscribe (for free!), download,…
Leopard: User Accounts Advanced Options
Leopardis Accounts Preference Pane also hides a set of advanced options you can use to customize user account settings. To get at the advanced options, Control-click a name in the Accounts Preference Pane, and then choose Advanced from the pop-up menu. Control-click an account to see the advanced settings.
iPod VP Scores $9.22M Stock Grant
Mr. Fadell was the first person to join Appleis iPod team in 2001, and was promoted to vice president of iPod engineering in 2004. He became senior vice president of the iPod division in April 2006. Appleis iPod is considered the dominant portable media player and has sold nearly 120 million units since its launch…
eWeek: iWork '08 One of 2007's Most Important Products
eWeek has published its list of the ten most important tech products of 2007, and Apple’s iWork ’08 is on the list. Google apps and the RIM BlackBerry 8820 are also on the list. Absent was the Apple iPhone. According to eWeek, Apple reinvigorated the office productivity market with distinctive new features and “demonstrated that…
Apple Security Update 2007-009 Can Cause Safari Crash
The Apple Security Update, 2007-009, for Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard published on Monday could have subtle, adverse effects on operations in Safari. It turns out that changes in Safari, in order to increase security, could cause crashes in some special circumstances. That can happen due to the way the security update affects how…
Adding Christmas Lights to the Mac OS X Desktop
In a continuing series of The Festive Mac, Charles Moore at Applelinks has posted mini-reviews of five applications that will bring Christmas lights to your Mac OS X desktop. The featured applications are: Festive Lights 3.1, Nightlights, MacLamps X 1.2, Christmas Lights 2.1 and Holiday Lights 5.2 MacLamps X 1.2
PC World: Vista, Leopard, iPhone Top Tech Disappointments
PC Worldis Biggest Tech Disappointments list for 2007 is out, and Microsoftis Windows Vista operating system ranked at the top of the list. Microsoft wasnit alone on the list, however, because Appleis iPhone and Mac OS X 10.5 operating system made the cut as well. “Five years in the making and this is the best…
NYC Pensioners Pursue Apple Lawsuit
Even though a federal Judge said the New York City Employee Retirement Systemis suit against Apple over improperly backdated stock option grants didnit hold water, the organization is moving forward with its case. The group filed a new version of its suit this week, and a hearing is scheduled in January to see if the…
IW: Leopard Server Passes Turnkey Sniff Test
While Appleis Mac OS X desktop OS is well known, Apple has also been hard at work developing a turnkey server version, Leopard Server, that takes a unique and bold approach, according to Tom Yager at Infoworld on Tuesday. Apple has continued its tradition of making Leopard Server simple to use for the enterprise in…
Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #132: I Command You To Sleep!
&catShow notes for Mac Geek Gab Podcast For Monday, December 17th, 2007. Direct Links: MP3 Version or AAC Enhanced Version (courtesy of Michael Johnston of iPhone Alley). Dave and John help you put your Mac to sleep … in their most entertaining fashion, of course! Additional topics covered include resolving iPhoto importing problems, understanding your…
Analyst: 3G iPhone Concerns Overdone
One of the biggest complaints about Appleis iPhone is that it uses EDGE for data transmission instead of the faster 3G technologies. American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu thinks those concerns are overdone and misplaced. Mr. Wu thinks that, despite the hype behind 3G, the technology isnit widely deployed and network coverage can be spotty.…
QuickTime 7.3.1 Plugs RTSP Security Hole
The update also fixed a QTL flaw that an attacker could use to cause applications to crash or run arbitrary code on the victimis computer, and patched several security holes in the QuickTime Flash media handler by limiting playback to known safe formats. QuickTime 7.3.1 updates are available for Mac OS X 10.3.9, 10.4.9 and…
Leopard: IDLE-ing with Mail
Whatis IDLE, you ask? Itis a protocol that lets an IMAP email server tell your email client when you have new messages instead of waiting until your client app checks. When your email gets the signal telling it that you have new mail, it automatically updates your inbox. Think of it as proactive email checking…
Desktop Snow Applications for Mac OS X
In a continuing series of The Festive Mac, Charles Moore at Applelinks has posted mini-reviews of seven applications that will bring snow of some kind to your Mac OS X desktop. The featured applications are: Snow 1.2, Sno 2006.12.8, Snow 2.4, and Snowied 1.0. The others are screen savers previously mentioned by Mr. Moore. Snow…
Cool Leopard Tips & New Version of Nancy's Tips Manual
It is hard to pick out the best new features, but here are three that I really like that I think have universal appeal. The Mail application has added a number of new features. You can now add stationary with built-in templates for invitations, announcements, etc. These templates allow you to include photos. You can…
Creating Custom Greeting Cards on a Mac
One can buy off-the-shelf Christmas cards, but there are also many different ways to create custom Christmas or greeting cards on a Macintosh. Using iPhoto is just one way, according to Charles Moore in his Festive Mac roundup of card creation software at Applelinks. Mr. Moore looked at and wrote mini-reviews of the following software:…
Opera Files EU Antitrust Case Against Microsoft
Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner commented “We are filing this complaint on behalf of all consumers who are tired of having a monopolist make choices for them.” The company also claimed that Microsoft is intentionally refusing to follow industry standards which hampers the ability of Web developers to create browser-compliant sites. “In addition to promoting…
Word of the Year: w00t
Merriam-Webster defines “w00t” as a word that “first became popular in competitive online gaming forums as part of what is known as l33t (ileet,i or ielitei) speak — an esoteric computer hacker language in which numbers and symbols are put together to look like letters. Although the double ioi in the word is usually represented…
