Q uickTime 6.5 is here, and available as a free download. QuickTime 6.5 adds support for mobile phone technologies like 3GPP and 3GPP2, as well as enhanced DV playback for use in Apple products such as iMovie, iDVD, and Final Cut Pro. Apple also notes in its press release that QuickTime 6.x has been downloaded…
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Installer VISE For OS X Released
MindVision Software announces the arrival of VISE X, a new installer product designed exclusively for creating full-featured, visually stunning Mac OS X installers for any install situation. Building on the success of MindVisionis Installer VISE — the industry standard installer for the Macintosh — VISE X brings a new feature set and a dedicated focus…
Default Folder X Updated Panther Enhnacments And More
St. Clair Software has updated Default Folder X, its Eddy Award-winning utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs, to version 1.9.2. Default Folder X 1.9.2 provides a new script for accessing Default Folder X from the Finderis toolbar in Panther, sports significant performance improvements to its hierarchical menus, and refines many of Default Folder Xis…
Default Folder X Updated With Panther Support
Further improving its EddyAward-winning utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs, St. Clair Software today released version 1.9 of Default Folder X. In conjunction with this update, it is necessary to warn users that older versions of Default Folder X are completely incompatible with Panther. When Default Folder X 1.8 or earlier is running, it…
DEVONtech Updates DEVONthink With Expanded Email Importing
DEVONtechnologies updates DEVONthink to version 1.7.2, adds new features, improvements and fixes. DEVONthink 1.7.2 comes with a new script that letis users import selected e-mails from Apple Mail, a contextual menu command to make contents outline items without opening the info palette, and a dock menu command to create new contents from the clipboard directly…
Apple Pulls OS X 10.2.8 Update
B arely a day after Apple released an update to OS X, the company pulled the update files. The KnowledgeBase article explaining the update has been pulled, and those who hadnit updated can no longer find the update listed in the Software Update Control Panel. Several TMO readers report having issues with DHCP and icons…
Security Firm Says Mac OS X & BSD Least Breached Servers In Last 12 Months
S ecurity is an issue of concern to many people of late. The Mac Observer has recently published many stories on both the security problems of Windows and the relative lack of security problems for Mac OS X. A new study released by UK security firm mi2g is showing once again that the Mac platform…
DEVONtech Updates EasyFind With Speed Enhancements
DEVONtechnologies updates the free find-file utility EasyFind to version 2.8.2. EasyFind is an alternative to or supplement of Sherlock and finds files, folders or contents in any file without the need for indexing. Additionally, EasyFind features case sensitive or insensitive search, boolean operators, wildcards and searching for phrases. EasyFind uses multithreading and so is very…
Default Folder X Updated Improves Hotkey Support
Further improving its EddyAward-winning utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs, St. Clair Software today released version 1.8 of Default Folder X. Default Folder X 1.8 answers OS X usersi pleas for the return of a popular feature that graced the Mac OS 9 version of Default Folder: Instead of typing the name for a…
How To Keep Your Mac OS X Mail Server From Being Used By Spammers
Many spammers are able to spread their filth widely due to the fact that some server administrators leave their SMTP servers open, allowing anyone to use them to send mail. This article lists step-by-step how to keep your OS X Server system from being used in this manner. From Apple: Follow these steps to prevent…
Mac OS Guru Shipping SQL4X Manager Update
Mac OS Guru has release an update for SQL4X Manager J, bringing it to version 2.5.1. SQL4X Manager J is a SQL database Interface designed for Web development and database management. The update features performance enhancements including PHP code generator enhancements and improved PostgreSQL support. According to Mac OS Guru: SQL4X Manager J 2.5.1 (Build…
Mac OS X Tip - No Password, No Root, No CD? No Problem.
Say you’ve lost your account password, you don’t have a system CD on hand, and you didn’t enable root. Say you have no other way to log into that machine. Say you need access to the files on that machine right now. Say you’re in deep you-know-what, bucko. Fortunately, there’s a five minute fix –…
GNUstep, Mac OS X Compatible On Intel Hardware
Macintosh OS X for Intel processors has long been a topic of debate for Apple aficionados. Regardless of where you stand on that debate, whether you’re for or against Apple using Intel processors, there is another option brewing: GNUstep. In the Beginning There Was NeXTstep What is GNUstep? Well let’s step back just a bit.…
DEVONtech Updates DEVONthink With Speed Enhancements
DEVONtechnologies updates its revolutionary information manager and freeform database to version 1.6 and makes it much faster and less memory-hungry. Without the need for indexing, DEVONthink fully or semi-automatically classifies elements, lists similar contents and words immediately using fuzzy algorithms, finds and compares text and even images, summarises texts intelligently and provides high performance concordance…
Default Folder X Update Adds Hotkey Support
St. Clair Software is happy to announce the availability of a new version of Default Folder X, its Eddy Award-winning utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs in Mac OS X. Default Folder X 1.7 adds hotkeys in the Finder for quickly accessing favorite folders, expands options for sorting recently used folders, and now integrates…
Computing With Bifocals - Getting Started With Mac OS X
I was shocked recently to realize that OS X has been out more than two years. It sure hasn’t seemed like it has been that long. I stopped to check this out after attending Macworld San Francisco in January. In a number of the sessions I attended, the speakers asked how many audience members had…
Apple Adds Mac OS X 10.2.5 To Apple Store, Not Downloadable Yet
O ur friends at MacNN noted today that Apple has added Mac OS X 10.2.5 to the online Apple Store as an orderable CD. Though the Apple Store says the update is downloadable through Software Update Control Panel, it does not actually show up yet. Also, the Apple KBase document linked to by Apple is…
Debunking Dvorak With Napkin Math For OS X On Intel
L et me get this out of the way first. I think John Dvorak is great. I love his Macintosh articles the most because they tend to piss everyone off. I also like them because they make me think a lot more than articles written by apologists. However, as often as I enjoy his articles,…
A Place For Everything, & Everything In Its Place, Except In Mac OS X
< B>File System encapsulation There are few good reasons for programs to strew files all over your hard drive; since OS Xis release, however, more Mac users have to deal with programs that install in ways they cannot control. In contrast, one of the few great things about older versions of the Macintosh operating system…
QuickTime Updated With MPEG-4 Streaming Fix
A pple has updated QuickTime to version 6.1.1. The new version delivers what Apple calls important bug fixes to MPEG-4 streaming. We know this because of the one-line note that comes with the download in Software Update: QuickTime 6.1.1 delivers important bug fixes to MPEG-4 streaming. As of this writing, QuickTime 6.1.1 is available only…
DEVONtech Updates DEVONthink With iChat Support
DEVONtechnologies updates its revolutionary information manager and freeform database again, to version 1.5.3. Without the need for indexing, DEVONthink fully or semi-automatically classifies elements, lists similar contents and words immediately using fuzzy algorithms, finds and compares text and even images, summarises texts intelligently and provides high performance concordance tools. DEVONthink Personal Edition 1.5.3 now imports…
Video/Voice-Over-IP App, New Game Come To Mac OS X
O S X is slick and keeps getting slicker by the minute. Each new application validates Appleis choice for its next generation OS, especially since the core of OS X is UNIX via FreeBSD. And one of the nicest things about UNIX is its Open Source software support. Applications by the hundreds are finding their…
Apple Releases AirPort 3.0 Updater for OS X 10.1.5 And 10.2
A pple has updated AirPort software to version 3.0. The new version supports both AirPort and AirPort Extreme base stations and cards. AirPort 3.0 improves printing support, administration abilities, and options for extending the range of your wireless network, especially with AirPort Extreme. If you use an AirPort Extreme base station, make sure you have…
Apple Moves WWDC Back One Month To Show Developers "Panther" Version Of Mac OS X
Apple is full of surprises this week. While many casual observers may have been surprised by the appointment of former vice president Al Gore to Apple’s board of directors, long time Apple watchers will be surprised to learn that the World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) has been moved not only by time, back a month…
