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iHID Shows Values Reported By Your HID Device When you launch iHID, there will be a Device menu. Click on this, and you’ll see a list of the HID devices currently connected to your Mac. The easiest is your keyboard. Select this, and you’ll see a list of all the possible Elements the device can…

The campaign allows players to take control of all three factions through co-operative missions where they align with other players over the Internet or with computer-controlled commanders. Red Alert 3 also brings in naval warfare as a major component, with resources to be harvested from the oceans and territory to conquer. The last Command &…

Apple’s iWeb uses a quasi-hidden location to store multiple Websites, and users don’t have control over either the file management, location or breaking multiple sites up into logical components. Multisite 2.4 from Clarkwood Software solves that problem for iWeb users. iWeb works by hardwiring a path for a single package. That package is found in:…

This article falls under the label of an editorial, but it’s really an exercise in whimsey and playful thinking. Follow me along for a minute.MacBook Pro: CPU, about 12-16 gigaflops, GPU, about 125 gigaflops I’m sitting here in front of a computer that can execute 100 million sines in 20 seconds. And that’s in Perl. It…

If a developer were to set out to design the friendliest, most capable, backwards compatible, best documented vector drawing program on a Mac, they’d arrive at EazyDraw 3. Not only does it use modern Mac OS X technologies, but remains true to the Mac heritage of drawing apps. Many of us have been distracted over…

Mr. Straub wrote the tune way back in 2000 following a time when he tried to convince the Reverend Billy C. Wirtz (a boogie-woogie performer) that writing a song about Macs was a surefire path to bringing him new fans. The Reverend didn’t buy it, and so Mr. Straub decided that if someone were going…

1. iTunes. My iTunes library is getting big, over 52 GB. Following our esteemed managing editor’s Quick Tip “Move Your iTunes Library”, I moved the iTunes Music directory to a second internal drive in the trusty PowerMac G5. (This is a directory found within the iTunes directory.) After I reset the location of that directory…

The program, once used, creates an encrypted space that appears as a volume on your desktop. When the space is locked, its content is secure. When unlocked, users can copy, move, and delete files.The secured space defaults to 128-bit AES encryption, but that can be changed to 256-bit AES in the application’s preferences.Protect Files 1.0…

Targus File Share Cable for Mac

SlingPlayer Mobile will allow iPhone and iPod touch users to not only watch the TV channels they have at home but also control their home DVR to view recorded shows, set up new recordings, and pause, rewind, and fast-forward live TV. Sling Media has not set a price point for the app, which it expects…

HP introduced updated versions of its Windows-based MediaSmart Servers on Monday with support for the Mac. The ex485 and ex487 both support Mac OS X 10.5 and let users back up their data and share an iTunes library over a local network. HP’s MediaSmart Server for the home. The ex485 and ex487 support Leopard’s Time…

New Mac-related titles include the just announced AppleScript 1-2-3 by Sal Saghoian and Bill Cheeseman, along with Scott Kelby’s Mac OS X Leopard Killer Tips. Also announced, but not available until January 5, is Lesa Snider King’s Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual. Safari Books Online subscriptions start at US$22.99 a month.

Most people know that Apple helped start a computing revolution, with the introduction of the Mac in 1984. Part of the intrigue of these early machines was the decidedly nonstandard hardware, much of which offered features beyond the competition. If you’d like to take a walk down memory lane, there has been much written about…

In the research note obtained by The Mac Observer, Mr. Ezra predicts an Apple netbook with a closed structure and limited abilities that build on the software distribution model of the App Store. He expects such devices to carry a price point of US$599, which would place them well below Mac pricing, but at a…

With the increasing amount of RAM you can have in your Mac, this process can take a while. Fortunately, a handy little prefpane called SmartSleep can fine-tune this behavior to your liking. Smart Sleep Prefpane Smart Sleep allows you to choose one of four sleep modes. The Mac’s default behavior is sleep and hibernate, which…

OpeniMac, which was first spotted by Engadget, is promoting its computers under the tagline, “Prestaciones de Mac. Precio de PC,” which translates as “The Benefits of a Mac. The Price of a PC.” Accordingly, the company offers visitors to its site comparisons between its computers and Apple’s Mac mini and iMac. We should note, though,…

The issue seems to occur randomly, though some users have stated that the problem emerges during heavy workloads. In some cases, the problem may only occur once or twice, while for others the blinking occurs rapidly, accompanying significant system slowdowns. As to the source of the problem, the current thinking on the issue per the…

Apple is now advising Mac owners to use “multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult.” The company specifically recommended Intego VirusBarrier X5 ($64.99 – Amazon), Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 11 for Macintosh ($31.99 – Amazon), and McAfee VirusScan for Mac.…

[Update: posted November 26, 2008] Apple released QuickTime 7.5.7 yesterday (currently available via Software Update for new MacBooks). It should now allow non-HD protected content to play on any external display. I guess I should have had a bit more faith in Apple.

For the last, gasp, 90 months, my trusty PowerBook G4 Titanium has served me well. And it itis not done yet. In itis new life, itill be used by my church for presentations. That so-called “TiBook” has been an amazing computer. What was once a state of the art Apple Titanium notebook computer has survived…

The Checkpoint Flyer is a trifold laptop bag designed around recently released TSA guidelines for laptop bags. It, in theory, allows users to not have to unpack their laptops at airport security checks, unfolding in a way the TSA will (supposedly) approve (The company offers a third party video review of the bag that shows…

Appleis Developer Connection recently posted a tutorial on developing Mac apps with MacRuby. The advantage of MacRuby is that it bypasses the technology of the Ruby-Cocoa bridge and sits directly on top of core Mac OS X technologies such as Objective-C runtime, the generational garbage collector, and CoreFoundation. As the tutorial explains, “Creating a bridge…