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Select the two or more images in iPhoto. Your selections will be highlighted in yellow. Next, press the Edit button on the bottom right of the iPhoto window. This will launch iPhoto’s familiar Edit screen, but instead of displaying a single photo, both photos you chose earlier will be displayed side-by-side.The photos you chose in…

The Flashback Trojan originally tried to trick users into giving up their account login by posing as a Flash installer where it would then disable OS X’s built-in malware definition updater, opening the victim’s Mac to more potential attacks. A later version attempted to exploit a security flaw in older versions of Java to auto-install…

The update, the first since May 2011, is expected to bring Intel’s Ivy Bridge chipset to Cupertino’s all-in-one desktop. The 22nm-based Core i5 and i7 Ivy Bridge platform should provide a 5 to 15 percent bump in processing power and significantly increased graphics performance via the integrated Intel HD GPU. As most iMacs include discrete…

As reported by DigiTimes and discussed by MacRumors, G-Tech is ramping up production of its cover glass products by over 66 percent this year to provide support for iPad manufacturing, with industry estimates expecting the Taiwanese company to provide 25 to 30 percent of the total glass for iPads in 2012.If true, this may mark…

As of Tuesday morning, only portions of the Apple site have been updated, notably the homepage and dedicated iPad page, although it appears to be a steady work-in-progress with more graphics being replaced daily.  Apple appears to be distinguishing the high resolution versions of its images with a “2x” tag, allowing curious users to locate…

Quicken for Mac 2007 was originally written for PowerPC machines and had been running on Intel-based Macs using Rosetta technology. Lion dropped support for Rosetta, so Quicken for Mac customers couldn’t upgrade if they wanted to continue to use the software. Today’s patch now allows  for the software to run under Lion, without Rosetta support. Existing Quicken for Mac…

Murasaki 1.6.1 for OS X is an EPUB 2/3 ebook reader for the Macintosh. It’s scroll-based rather than paginated and can only view ebooks in non-DRM’d EPUB format. It has some nice features, but the user interface is awkward in some areas. Murasaki, in English. means the color purple. Moreover, according to the developers, “…the…

Apple’s patch notes: About MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.7 (4.24MB Download) This update fixes several issues to improve the stability of MacBook Pro (Early 2011) and MacBook Pro (Late 2011) computers and is recommended for all users. This update improves the reliability of booting from the network, addresses an issue that can prevent HDCP…

AppleInsider found the filing and described its contents. Apple details the various keyboard types in use today and then describes two new methods it has patented, both of which use a single support lever.One method proposes using glass, wood, stone, or even “polished meteorite” for key caps held in place by a support lever that…

BookReader 3.8 for OS X is a mature, full-featured ebook reader for the Macintosh. It has an iBooks-like bookshelf with good sorting and searching options, and it can read documents in many standard formats, including .epub, .doc, .ibooks and many more. This app looks so much like iBooks that some customers, in the past, thought…

The comments came in an interview with Mr. Cook on Mountain Lion, the new version of OS X Apple introduced on Thursday in a developer preview. Mountain Lion includes several new features that were originally developed for iPhone and iPad, including Messages (Messages was also released Thursday as a beta for Lion), Notification Center, Game…

Reading ebooks on an iPad is a natural thing to do, but what if you want to or need to work on a Mac? The Mac can do things that the iPad still cannot, and the situation cries out for an OS X native EPUB reader. Now we have it with Bookle. EPUB and Ebook…

Apple Fans in China Source: M.I.C. Gadget It’s the Mac costume that we’re most taken with. It combines pieces from a PowerMac G4 to make a something that resembles armor with an iMac G3 for a head. That said, it could also be an alternate universe in which Jonathan Ive was George Lucas’s costume designer…

Lion Recovery Apple’s sparse patch notes for the firmware update: About iMac EFI Firmware Update 1.8 This update enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection on iMac (Mid 2010) models. For more information about Lion Recovery, please visit this website: https://www.apple.com/macosx/recovery/. As of this writing, the firmware update isn’t showing up on Apple’s Downloads site,…

I, like many, have found that Flash causes stability problems on my Mac and have removed it. Since I no longer had Flash on my Mac when I encountered a site with Flash content I would copy the site’s URL, paste it into Google Chrome (which has Flash built into the application) and then open…

This year, Cirque du Mac 9.0 will be held on Friday night of the Expo, with that being Friday, January 27, 2012. Each year it’s at Cirque du Mac where the Macworld All-Star Band plays, a band made up of some of the leading personalities in our community including Paul Kent, Chris Breen, Bob LeVitus,…

The Prospect Apple has a lot on its hands with curating iOS apps and apps in the Mac App Store (MAS). However, could things ever get to the point where Apple might want to, as a minimum, digitally sign all Mac apps? Why would Apple want to do that? A digital signature doesn’t add any…

Piezo Interface Examples “Almost any app’s audio can be captured in Piezo, just by selecting it as the source,” the company said in a statement. “Piezo will grab web streams in Safari or music from services like Spotify and Rdio. If you need to capture sound bites from DVDs or even from movies in iTunes,…

My Living Desktop for OS X intelligently displays full screen videos, with sound, as your desktop, but does so without consuming vasts amounts of memory or hogging the CPU. The app comes with twenty-six different videos, mostly gorgeous nature scenes, that bring life and perhaps serenity to your Mac’s display. Most of us who are…

The new feature was first uncovered by Macworld, which also noted that VMware 4.1 simply reminds user to respect Apple’s licensing terms.Image courtesy of Macworld. VMware Fusion 4.1 installing Leopard Client. As the VMware tech note for the software explains: VMware Fusion 4.1 changes the behavior of the new virtual machine assistant when creating a…

Title: My New Mac – Lion Edition Author: Wallace Wang Date of Publication: October 2011 Publisher: No Starch Press  Soft Cover Print: US$29.99, includes free ebook when ordered from company website Ebook US$23.95 when ordered singly from company website Soft Cover Print US$18.70, Kindle edition US$9.99 at Amazon  472 pages This past June, I reviewed…

One could, of course, purchase an external SuperDrive from Apple for US$79 (or a third-party external optical drive), but there’s a more convenient and useful way, a method that Apple Store Genii have known and used for years: a triage drive. We’ll show you how to plan and build your very own. A triage drive…

Apple acknowledged the problem on October 13th in a KnowledgeBase article that described the problem and said Apple was working on a fix. that KBase article has been updated with links to the software update linked above. The article also has information for Snow Leopard users: For computers with OS X Snow Leopard, v10.6 Select…

Apple’s MacBook Pro lineupThe 13-inch MacBook Pro now includes a 2.4GHz or 2.8GHz Core i5 processor and a 500GB 5400 RPM hard drive. Apple also offers a 2.8GHz Core i7 version with a 750GB hard drive.The 15-inch MacBook Pro ships with a 2.2GHz Core i7 or 2.4GHz Core i7 processor. The 2.2GHz model includes an…