Archives for February 2009

February, 05th February 2009

• Nucleus SoundLab Releases Pantheon Reason ReFill

  Propellerhead Software and Nucleus SoundLab announced Thursday Pantheon, a new ReFill for Reason. The ReFill offers more than 400 patches…

• Jumsoft Releases Keynote Themes FX 4.0 Companion Application for Keynote

  Lithuanian software developer Jumsoft announced the release of its Keynote Themes FX 4.0 software on Thursday. The Keynote Themes FX 4.0 package consists…

• MacVoices TV Posts Video from Cirque du Mac 6.0 & Macworld All Star Band

  MacVoices TV has posted a video of the Macworld All Star Band at Cirque du Mac 6.0. MacVoices TV is…

• Cheap, Data-free iPhones

  Yesterday Sanford Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi suggested that Apple should sell an iPhone model that doesn't support data plans. Today TMO…

• Apple Takes Another Crack at Georgetown Store

  Apple isn't giving up on its plans for a store in Washington D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood. The company will offer its…

• Disc Cover 2.3 Adds DiscT@2 Support

  BeLight Software announced the immediate availability of Disc Cover 2.3 on Thursday. The update for the CD and DVD label…

• Woz Takes Chief Scientist Role at Fusion-io

  Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak is rejoining the workforce now that he has landed a role as chief scientist at Fusion-io.…

February, 04th February 2009

• Apple Updates GarageBand to 5.0.1 with Learn to Play Fix

  Apple updated GarageBand 5, a component of iLife 09, to version 5.0.1, an update that includes a fix for problems…

• Multisite 2.4 Adds Website Flexibility to iWeb

  Apple's iWeb uses a quasi-hidden location to store multiple Websites, and users don't have control over either the file management,…

• iPresentee Releases Keynote Motion Themes 5.0

  iPresentee announced Wednesday the release of Keynote Motion Themes 5.0.  The package includes five new Keynote themes called Snow, Dancing…

• An Exercise in Whimsy: Maximum Mac Leverage

  Computers are built on the concept of abstraction. Machine language led to assembly language, which led to higher level languages.…

• Flickery Mac OS X Desktop Flickr Client Offers 2nd Public Beta

  Eternal Storms Software of Austria announced Wednesday a 2nd public beta of "flickery," the company's Mac OS X desktop client…

• Battlestations Midway

  There’s a certain glory to World War II video games that will never fade, but sometimes you need a slightly…

• Should Apple Cozy Up with Comcast?

  Today TMO are discussing Apple could repeat the success it found when it teamed with AT&T to distribute the iPhone…

• iPhoto 09: Changing Key Photos in Faces

  iPhoto '09 includes a cool feature called Faces that uses some coding wizardry to group together images of the same…

• Digital Anarchy Intros Lighting, Cartoon Aperture Plug-ins

  Digital Anarchy announced the immediate availability of two new effects plug-ins for Apple's Aperture on Wednesday. Knoll Light Factory 3.0…

February, 03rd February 2009

• MacHEADS Comes to iTunes, Amazon

  Kobi Shely, the producer and director of the movie MacHEADS, announced Tuesday that it is now available on iTunes and…

• Wanted: The Demise of Several iPhone Irritations

  I woke up in a cranky mood this morning. For some odd reason, the source of my mood appears to…

• Hyperspaces Brings Leopard’s Spaces to Life

  Quick Look Review: Hyperspaces adds additional features and flexibility to Leopard's virtual desktop capability, called Spaces. Users can set individual backgrounds…

• Facebook, iPhoto and MobileMe

  Today TMO readers are talking about Facebook support in iPhoto '09 and what impact that might have on Apple's MobileMe…

• Apple’s Changes to UNIX Can Infuriate, Mystify, Delight

  As every Mac OS X user knows, the early UNIX OSes were never designed to be used by casual consumers.…

• iWeb Companion App Multisite 2.4 Adds iWeb 09 Support

  Seattle, Washington-based Clarkwood Software announced the immediate availability of Multisite 2.4 for Mac OS X on Wednesday. The new version adds support for…

• nova media Unveils iCON 431 3G USB Modem

  nova media announced the immediate availability of the iCON 431 3G USB modem on Tuesday. The wireless modem lets Mac…

• Mac Geek Gab #190: Macs to HDMI, DropBox for Sharing, Syncing Calendars, Migration

  Listener questions answered, tips shared and more, with topics including syncing files and calendars using DropBox and MobileMe, migrating to…

February, 02nd February 2009

• Apple Dominates Top 10 Most Talked About Brands in Social Networking

  Apple dominated the discussion in online social media when it comes to brands in 2008, taking three of the Top…

• Apple Updates Keynote 4, Pages 3, Numbers 1 from iWork 08

  Apple released updates for Keynote 4 (version 4.0.4), Pages 3 (version 3.0.3), and Numbers (version 1.0.3) Monday, all part of…

• LaCie Doubles Speed of d2 Blu-ray External Drive

  LaCie announced Monday a faster version of its LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive that burngs Blu-ray disks at 8x speeds, twice…

• Microsoft Layoffs Lead to Increase in Microsoft Shirts at Seattle Thrift Stores

  In the wake of thousands of layoffs at Microsoft, Todd Bishop has found what he called an "overabundance" of Microsoft…

• Safari Tops 8 Percent Market Share in January, IE Drops Again

  Apple's Safari Web browser pushed up over 8 percent market share in January to hit 8.29 percent, topping December's 7.93…

• Reader Reactions: Adobe’s iPhone Flash Plans

  Today TMO readers are talking about Adobe's confirmation that it is working with Apple to bring Flash to the iPhone.

• RouteBuddy Adds South America, Asia Maps

  RouteBuddy Ltd announced the immediate availability of new South America and Asia maps for RouteBuddy 2.3 on Monday.