The new version also added the ability to export scripts in the .sex format for production scheduling applications, added iScript support, improved file import performance, fixed several bugs, and more. Montage 1.3 is priced at US$139.95 The upgrade is free for version 1 customers.
Default Folder X 4 Gets Quick Look Support
The version 4.0 update also added a new HUD-style user interface, a preview window that floats below Open dialogs, full-screen previews, and more. Default Folder X 4.0 is priced at US$34.95 and is available for download at the St. Clair Software Web site. The upgrade costs $14.95 for users that purchased their copy of Default…
Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #131: Macworld Tips and Paul Kent Interviewed
Show notes for Mac Geek Gab Podcast For Saturday, December 8th, 2007 Direct Links: MP3 Version or AAC Enhanced Version (coming soon courtesy of Michael Johnston). In this special Macworld Prep episode, John and Dave take a few minutes to share their favorite Expo attendance and travel tips for you. Learn the secrets these two…
Google Unveils the Mac Developer Playground
Google announced on Tuesday the unveiling of its Mac Developer Playground. Google’s Mac team engineers spend part of their time experimenting and developing useful tools and fun software. Now they’ve opened it up, according to Sean Carlson at Google. “We’ve always had a place to showcase our consumer products. Today, we’re unveiling the Google Mac…
Bear Sterns Lifts AAPL Target on Strong Sales
Mr. Neff commented “We continue to see AAPL well positioned for the holidays given the confluence of product cycles for Mac (new iMac, low channel inventory, Leopard OS, BBY store expansion) and iPod (strong new product acceptance).” Like American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu, Mr. Neff expects that Appleis strong guidance for the December quarter…
Anti-porn Bill Could Impact All Open Wi-Fi Networks
The SAFE bill, or Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online Act, is intended to help law enforcement with investigating and prosecuting people that use the Internet to distribute child pornography images. The side effect, however, is that anyone with an open Wi-Fi network will be required to comply with the law even if they operate a personal…
Yager: Time Machine Has its Limits
Time machine is designed for home users with Mac desktops and notebook computers, and itis fully automated. However, there may be some users or some occasions when itis better not to use Time Machine at all, according to Tom Yager at Infoworld. In addition, Time Machine provides data archiving, but not data protection. While numerous…
USA Today: Thoughts on Switching to a Mac
Many consumers are pondering the switch to Mac this holiday season. For those who are, Edward Baig has provided a most cogent synopsis of what makes the Macintosh so appealing at USA Today on Wednesday. In what may be one of the best written and balanced essays ever on why potential Switchers should consider Mac,…
Flash Player 9 Gets H.264 Support
Adobe released Flash Player 9 Update 3 on Tuesday. The new version of the Flash content player added support for H.264 video and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio. The update also supports hardware accelerated full screen video playback and multi-core procesors. The new version of Flash gives content creators and providers new options for streaming…
MIF Filter Converts FrameMaker to InDesign
The plug-in preserves page layout, content, settings, colors, anchored frames, paragraph styles, tables, graphic objects, cross references, variables, and more. MIF Filter can be used for free to open and review FrameMaker documents in InDesign, and includes a sliding scale pricing scheme for per-page conversions. Pricing for per-page conversion starts at €0.35 (about US$0.51) per…
Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #130: Sync, Sync, Sync, and More!
Show notes for Mac Geek Gab Podcast For Monday, December 3rd, 2007 Direct Links: MP3 Version (unfortunately there’s no AAC version available this week, folks — the MP3 will be posted to the AAC feed). The mailbox was overflowing with items related to .Mac, iSync, and more, so that’s what this weeks’ show focuses on.…
Podcast - Apple Weekly Report: Apple & Burst Make Nice, QuickTime Security, Steve Jobs Rules the Business World
Direct Link: MP3 Version Apple and Burst managed to settle their differences over patents, and it only cost Apple $10 million. The iPhone invaded France, Google made a move for the 700MHz wireless spectrum, a QuickTime security flaw reared its ugly head, and it turns out Steve Jobs is the most powerful business person in…
AAPL Climbs Following 3G iPhone News
Word of a 2008 3G-compatible iPhone release didn’t come from Apple, but that didn’t stop the company’s stock from climbing. The Cupertino company’s stock closed on Wednesday at US$180.22, and climbed up over $184 late Thursday morning. The news that Apple is planning on releasing an iPhone model that works on AT&T’s faster 3G wireless…
AAPL Creeps Up Over $176 Again
Apple’s stock took another upswing in after hours trading to climb back up over the US$176 mark early Wednesday morning. The Mac and iPod maker’s stock closed on Tuesday evening at $174.81, continuing the company’s general upward trend. Apple’s market cap is recovering as well. As of closing Tuesday, it was set at $153.05 billion,…
Gadget Support Comes to Google Desktop for the Mac
Google announced on Wednesday that it is adding Google Gadget support to its Google Desktop application for the Mac. Google Gadgets are similar to Apple’s Dashboard widgets, but are cross-platform and work in Dashboard, iGoogle pages, and the Google Desktop Sidebar. Google Desktop: Now with Gadgets An extensive list of Google Gadgets is already available,…
DEVONtechnologies Updates Apps for Leopard
DEVONthink Pro Office, Pro, and Personal also added support for Microsoft Office 2007 and OpenDocument file formats, added the ability to accept links from Mail.app messages, and improved PDF output support. DEVONthink Professional Office 1.3.4, DEVONthink Professional 1.3.4, DEVONthink Personal 1.9.11, DEVONnote 1.9.11, and DEVONagent 2.3 are available for download at the DEVONtechnologies Web site.…
QuickTime RTSP Vulnerability Proof-of-concept Surfaces
A few days after a flaw was discovered in the QuickTime handling of the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), researchers have been able to craft a proof-of-concept exploit, according to Computerworld on Thursday. “This particular exploit can cause remote code execution through the QuickTime RTSP protocol vulnerability on Microsoft Windows and Apple systems,” Symantec said.…
MacITT, Apple Matters Defaced by Hacker [Updated]
MacITT, Apple Matters and iPhone Matters, three Apple and Mac related information Web sites, were seemingly defaced by a hacker Monday night. The regular site contents was replaced with a message about “excessive Apple fanboism.” In the end, however, it turned out the defacing was merely a publicity stunt. Three Apple related Web sites were…
Protecting Files with an Encrypted Disk Image
Hereis how to make your own encrypted disk image: Launch Disk Utility. You can find it hiding in Applications / Utilities. Click New Image. Select New Image in Disk Utility.
Intel Updates Tools for Leopard, Fuels Penryn Speculation
Intel Corp. announced a major upgrade to its tools suite on Wednesday in support of Appleis Leopard OS. The latest version 10.1 of the Intel C++ and Fortran Compilers as well as the Intel Threading Blocks, Math Kernel Libraries, and Performance Primitives have been optimized for Leopard and Xcode 3.0, according to Intel. The announcement…
Microsoft Mac BU Publishes Office 2008 Sneak Peek #6
The Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) published its Office 2008 Sneak Peek #6 on Tuesday. The Sneak Peek showcases the PowerPoint interface to iPhoto and Wordis Notebook Layout View improvements. Microsoft cited these items to showcase in SP #6: PowerPoint 2008 Send to iPhoto: With Office 2008, users can share presentations from their Macs…
The Semi-Hidden Features of Leopard
Printing and Page Setup united. One of my long-standing irritations when printing on a Mac dates back to the earliest versions of the Mac OS: the separation of the Page Setup and Print dialogs. If I need to adjust these settings, I too often have to waste time swapping back and forth between the two…
TimeMachineScheduler Allows Better Interval Control
Stefan Klieme has announced the immediate availability of TimeMachineScheduler. It can override Time Machineis default interval setting of one hour and set it to from one to 12 hours. Leopardis Time Machine has a default backup interval of 1 hour, and thatis not adjustable by the user even if the launchd.plist is altered. TimeMachineScheduler replaces…
Mac OS and Windows Through the Years
The clever gang at Gizmodo set their Wayback Machine so they could compare Apple’s Mac OS and Microsoft’s Windows interfaces over the years. The visual history starts with Mac OS 7 and Windows 95 and ends with Mac OS X 10.5 and Windows Vista, and shows how both have gone from boxy and basic to…
