Robert Daeley writes: "Last year, I worked out a method to create custom Mail.app announcement sounds by using the say program on Mac OS X, a CLI utility that converts text to speech and can output aiff sound files. And while nowadays I'm of the opinion that a totally hidden email program is a better way to go, it occurred to me earlier this week that it would be cool to have the equivalent of cellphone ringtones for Mail."
Toast 7 will burn just about any sort of optical disc, but one major addition to the update that potentially affects every disc type is the iLife media browser. From the Toast options drawer, the media browser gives you direct access to your iPhoto library and albums, iTunes library and playlists, the Movies folder and the content of available DVDs (including VIDEO_TS folders). Read the full review over at macHOME.
As Apple transitions the Mac platform to include the Intel architecture, software developers who have been using the CodeWarrior IDE are moving their applications to the Xcode IDE. The reason is simple: by moving existing CodeWarrior applications to Apple's Xcode, they can create universal binaries—applications that include executable code that runs on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macintosh computers. Developers using Xcode are able to compile their applications to work on Intel-based as well as PowerPC-based Macs.
Peter Cohen writes: "If there’s one word you can use to describe Mac gaming in 2005, it’s diversity. There was a little something for everyone this year, from strategy games to first person shooters, excellent shareware titles, massively multiplayer online games and more. Just consider the 2005 inductees to Macworld’s Game Hall of Fame as an example of the depth and breadth of Mac gaming this past year."
Portland police are looking for over a hundred Apple iPods stolen from a local computer store. Police say thieves broke into the PowerMacPac store shortly after closing time Sunday evening and made straight for the iPod display case, passing up costly computers, digital cameras and other expensive items. I guess the iPod really is the most wanted gadget for the holidays :)
Whether your Mac has a CD-ROM drive, a Combo drive, or a SuperDrive, how it behaves when you insert a disc in the drive is entirely within your control. However, since the default behaviors make sense for most users, you may not even have realized that you can change these settings.
All you need is an old Mac Plus with 4 MB of RAM, a hard drive, System 7 or later, some free software, and an Internet connection. Oh yeah, and this article to get you started. You can have your very own web server for your website, and even a Mac Plus can handle a decent load, but not a whole lot.
Much new stuff awaits switchers that come from Windows to Mac OS X. What's interesting about Mac OS X is that unlike Linux, things are much more intuitive and you get accustomed to the new environment in a snap. This article offers some suggestions for the new Mac user. As you can expect, not everything is covered but these really are some of the things that can trouble new users. If that's not enough, and it never is when you're a new user hungry for knowledge I suggest you take a look at the comments below the article, there's more to explore there.
Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell provides the perfect overview of Tiger, covers all the essentials and most-talked-about new features of Tiger, including big-ticket items such as Spotlight for effortless searching, iChat AV for video conferencing, and Dashboard for one-click access to a calculator, weather reports, stock prices, flight times, and more. It also covers the hundreds of nips and tucks Tiger made to its underlying technologies and existing applications, including improvements to graphics and the Unix-based core and an easy way to automate time-consuming, repetitive manual or batch tasks.
You can get the new version here. At the moment of writing there hasn't been an official announcement yet, but the mirrors are opening and the downloads have started. I believe many new enhancements and bugfixes will be introduced with this release. I've been running it for the past 20 minutes and no problems yet :)
Interest for Aperture is very high and although we've seen several reviews in the past, however this is one that has a myriad of screenshots. Don't expect in-depth analysis but rather an article that will give you a visual feel for the program. In case you didn't know, Aperture is shipping.
If you’ve got an iPod photo, iPod with color display, iPod with video, or iPod nano, you know that you can put photos on your iPod for viewing on the iPod’s color screen. But how do you get photos off that iPod? Read this article and find out.
Kevin Schmitt writes: "Ah, yes...the venerable Aqua buttons Apple unleashed on the world lo those many years ago. Sure, they may seem a little turn-of-the-century these days, but you still see them littered about like so much confetti. And since the basic Aqua button was heretofore unattainable in Flash without the use of some creative Photoshopping, I can't think of a better model to use for a tutorial on how you can implement Flash 8 's new filters and blends to create clean, scalable interface widgets like our old friend the Aqua button."
Backup is one of those actions the majority of users doesn't do often enough, some never. There's a variety of tools for the Mac that can help you automate this sometimes tedious task. MacZealots.com has an in-depth review of one the most known titles on the market - SuperDuper.
The Broadband Tuner allows you to take full advantage of very high speed Internet connections that have a high latency (5 Mbps or greater). The installer increases the default values for the size of the TCP send and receive buffers. With larger buffers more data can be in transit at once. A startup configuration file is also updated so that these changes will persist across restarts.
Reading your favorite RSS feeds on iPods is a piece of cake. Naturally there will be questions regarding the actual need of reading RSS items on your iPod, but you should know that a lot of web sites offer full articles inside their feeds. I just tested a free utility called iFeedPod and it does the trick.
iFeedPod can be downloaded from carnglas.com (note: the website seems a bit slow today). It is easy to install, just unpack the initial downloaded file. The software is pretty straightforward to work with.
First you must add in your favorite feeds, by manually adding their titles and locations. As the software transforms the articles from the RSS file into iPod notes, you can chose whether you want to merge feed articles into a single note, or if you want each article to be stored in a separate note.
After adding the RSS feeds, you need to sync them to your iPod. The iPod needs to be in a disk mode, so files can be transferred to it.
If everything is OK, you will get the following screen:
Like I said the software is pretty easy to use. The screenshot below shows the RSS feeds we synced to the iPod. The difference between Apple and Non Stop Mac feeds is that Apple's is located inside one note and our feeds are located inside a subfolder. Here is a listing of the Non Stop Mac folder:
By clicking on each of the notes, you can easily access its content.
TextWrangler's feature set includes such diverse elements as multi-file search and replace with optional regular expression ("Grep") pattern matching, function navigation and syntax coloring for numerous code languages, the ability to easily work with files on remote FTP and SFTP servers, and comprehensive support for AppleScript and Unix scripting. The updated version of this popular, general-purpose text processing tool includes maintenance fixes to reported issues and a few minor interface refinements. TextWrangler 2.1.1 is available free of charge.
Swift Publisher is a Macintosh page layout application for designing and printing colorful flyers, newsletters, brochures, letterheads, etc. It has a variety of editing tools and a great choice of templates: 23.000 high quality images, 100 unique masks and about 100 professionally designed templates. Read a review of this title over at Spymac.
There's a whole hidden side of text modification that is stashed away, yet right at your fingertips. If you go to the Application menu (if you're in Safari, click the menu 'Safari') -> Services, a whole list pops down. You've probably disregarded this in the past (if you've ever seen it) because most of the options are grayed out, or unclickable.
This new release features many improvements including a new VLC cone, new Mac OS X wizard and extend controls dialogs, tree playlist skins2 support, HTTP interface CGI handling, UPnP and Bonjour service discovery, shoutcast stream forwarding, new languages, and more.
Many have opted for a GMail account because of its storage size and ease of use. Now let's assume you would like to really take advantage of the 2.6+ GB storage space and import all of your existing e-mail into your GMail account. GMail Loader and this tutorial will help.
Due to Apple's uncluttered design philosophy, many of iTunes's features are buried deep within menu items or aren't even documented. The tips and tricks in this article are all relevant to iTunes 6 for the Mac and will help you maximize your musical enjoyment, no matter your experience level.
The year was 1994, and an exciting new technology was about to be unveiled. Apple was leading development of the ambitious project, which had already generated quite a buzz, and several big-name manufacturers had already agreed to support the technology, including Microsoft, Sony and Intel. The name? FireWire. And by 2000, it was practically a household name.
While reading online content, I usually prefer opening all links in new tabs. While right mouse button click on the link opens a menu where you can chose "Open link in new tab", there is a faster way of doing this. Just hold the Command button and click on the specific link - it will automatically open in a new tab.
In this new article from a Java perspective, Marcus Zarra discusses Core Data, which is a new framework that was introduced by Apple with the release of OS X 10.4 Tiger. Core Data replaces the need for building data objects and helps manage storing data in a flat file, XML file or SQLite database. Marcus walks you through some of the basic usages of Core Data and tells you why it is so useful.
The PowerBook has consistently been one of the most respected and lusted after brands in the portable computing market. This wasn't always the case. Apple's first attempt at repackaging the Macintosh as a portable failed (the 15 lb. Macintosh Portable never caught on). In 1992, Apple scored a hit, and sales of the PowerBook line helped the company generate $7.1 billion in sales, its best year ever. Like the Macintosh, the PowerBook succeeded despite Apple's management. Get some history over at Low End Mac.
This little pouch is constructed of soft, plush fabric, and will wrap your nano in holiday cheer. Includes lanyard and carabiner. It would be cool if people forgot about wrapping paper this holiday season and gave an iPod nano in this fun enclosure. For a review head over to iPod Garage.
The first iMac RevC have been delivered allowing the people over at Hardmac.com to make a review between this new machine and the previous generation. If you click here, you'll find a review between an iMac RevB 17" 1.8 GHz and an iMac RevC 17" 1.9 GHz.
The Dock is that strip of icons across the bottom of your screen, and you'll find it to be one of your most important tools. In this article you'll experiment with using the Dock, adding icons to it and takings icons out, resizing it, and more.
PopXpress, the UK's first chain of dedicated Apple iPod and accessory stores, is opening its doors to the public tomorrow. The store is just off Liverpool Street in London. The company has plans to open more than a dozen stores by the end of next year in key cities and retail centres across the UK, with a second store in London's West End due to open before Christmas.
You've been waiting for the iPod and it finally arrived. You start carrying it around and you realize just how much accessories you need for it to fit your lifestyle completely. This article contains information on a variety of things you can get for your portable player.
All iPods use batteries that can only be recharged so many times, and their charge capacities get smaller as time passes. If your first, second, third, fourth generation iPod or iPod mini doesn’t play as long as it used to, give it a boost with one of the replacement batteries. In order to replace the battery of your iPod you’ll need specialized tools and instructions which are included in the package.
Peter Burrows writes in his column on BusinessWeek: "One Wall Street source I spoke with says there's talk that Apple might sell as many as 4.5 million video iPods this quarter. My sources say that many U.S. shoppers are opting to pay up for a video iPod when they can't find a 4-gigabyte nano at their local retailer. It seems many shoppers think two gigabytes just isn't enough capacity. So faced with the prospect of going home with nothing, they're paying the premium."
Atomic Learning offers a variety of free video tutorials covering many aspects of Mac OS X 10.4. Here you can learn about the Dashboard, Spotlight as well as other new features.
The Mini Drive Kit features an external drive enclosure that enables users to convert an IDE Ultra DMA 33/66 or ATA-100/133 hard disk drive into a USB 2.0 drive simply by plugging into the ADS Native Bridge Board inside the enclosure. At 480Mbits/sec, you will get the maximum data throughput for your external drive. Now featuring an innovative SimpleTouch Back Up button, that allows easy backup of any number of folders or files. Program the backup process with Software included inside from Intech. A review of the product can be found here.
Do you ever go out and forget to put your Mac to sleep? This article explains how to do it by sending an MMS message. Ah, the wonders of Automator :)
In this article I will try to share my experience with the best piece of hardware I ever used - a 12.1-inch iBook G4. I focused the article on giving my comments on different aspects of the iBook - software, hardware and the overall appearance. The article is accompanied by screenshots, photos and a small video.
During my computer years, I have used a number of different computers. I started with a ZX Spectrum 128, moved to Intel 386 (in between, I was obsessed with gaming consoles) and after changing a couple of new breed PCs I transferred to the Mac.
While I had a Mac as desktop computer, I still used a new Gericom Notebook (3.1 GHz Pentium 4 with 512 MB of RAM). It was a good machine, but the problem was that it run Windows XP. Yikes!
As I am a technology geek (aren't we all), about 8 months ago I bought a new Compaq Tablet PC. It was a perfect piece of hardware, good for reading Zinio magazines, planning work activities etc., but...
A couple of months ago, Mirko (the other 50% of Non Stop Mac) and I were zipping coffee in a nearby bar and as always we talked about various technological wonders. As I am pretty impulsive, I said let's go to town to get me an iBook. Now, I can say that it was one of the best decisions I ever made. My little 12-inch iBook rocks. In a short period of time I sold the Tablet PC and the Gericom notebook is now used solely for storage and occasional VJ-ing that Mirko does for a band we know.
Enough introductions - let me tell you why I love my iBook. I will divide this article into a couple of sections, each of them containing information on a specific point of view.
Software
I have used a number of operating systems in my computer years. Besides Windows 95/98/ME/XP I was using SuSe Linux, Mandrake Linux, Red Hat Linux and Fedora. I always had disgust toward Windows, but while Linux had much better and more powerful specs and options, it was never a perfect solution for my every day use. While I was not so satisfied with Linux on my desktop or notebook, my experience clearly shows that Linux is by far the best operating system for running on a server.
The thing I love about Mac OS X is that it combines the versatile UNIX background with a fabulous looking Graphical User Interface (GUI). Everything on it looks just perfect. My iBook was shipped with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, which is a worthy upgrade to Panther. The things I adore about the OS are outlined below.
The Dashboard
Widgets are very interesting pieces of software. People are really spending a large amount of their time to deliver innovative new tools to our Dashboards. With a click of a button, stuff like Capture, Dictionary, BusinessWeek news and even a Hot or Not widget can be easily added to the Dashboard. Also it is rather easy to create your own widgets and although I didn't try it yet I have some good ideas to start with. Btw, it is a good thing to subscribe to Apple's widget RSS feed to be alerted of newly developed widgets.
The browsing experience
Although I was a big fan of Firefox since its pre-releases, some new versions were pretty buggy and made me re-think of using it. The latest two versions had big problems with web sites that are using Flash and forced Firefox to stop responding. I never used the "Force Quit" option with any other application besides Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer (I needed to install this to check the compatibility of the Non Stop Mac CSS - btw IE stopped responding the second I started it).
Safari 2.0 that ships with Tiger is THE browser. It is very fast and easy to use. I tried crashing it with different "hakerish" techniques for a couple of hours and I didn't even make it cough. This is the only browser I used that doesn't have any problems when you start like 8 instances of the program and each of them having about 10 tabs with different HTML, Flash and Java content.
The only thing that makes me curse from time to time is that the "select all" combination (command+a) and "quit Safari" combo (command+q) are near each other, so from time to time I need to start all my 25+ tabs once again.
Networking
Never mind if you are connecting to a wired LAN, wireless LAN or a Bluetooth network - everything works flawlessly. Networking on a Mac is plug and play in its best version. When I used my Windows notebook I needed to do a lot of rebooting, enabling, disabling to make things work - now it is a 100% painless procedure.
At home I connect to the Internet via ADSL by using a wireless connection. Airport works perfectly and all security modes are very easy to setup. With its default settings the iBook WLAN card can find out more networks than any other Windows computer I tried, of course located in the same room (using different PCI and PCMCIA cards).
Hardware
I know you Mr. Hardware
Nevertheless what kind of hardware device I try to plug into the iBook, the Mac OS X not just recognizes it and makes it immediately available for usage, but in most cases it gives the hardware its own custom icon. I tried this by plugging in a couple of HP printers and a cellular phone. The icons for these devices had a photo of a device embedded in them. Eat your heart our Windows users, this looks very cool.
Battery life
Before buying the iBook I never knew that it incorporates such a powerful battery and that it optimizes it to the perfection. When it is fully charged, the battery can last more than 4 hours. When the Airport is on, it can last around 3.5 hours. From my previous notebook experiences this is quite impressive.
The sleep mode is one of the things that are on the top of my extremely useful and cool list. By going into sleep mode the iBook hibernates and consumes a small amount of the battery. In this mode all your data is preserved, and you can carry on with your work in less than 2 seconds after re-opening the laptop.
In this mode, the iBook doesn't produce any sounds, it doesn't emanate any heat, it just has one white light that has the effect of sleeping as the brightness is slowly exchanging (video: iBook-sleep.mpg, 3.5 MB, mpg).
Ports
All the ports on the iBook are located on the left side. Besides the integrated modem and Ethernet ports, we have two USB slots, firewire, speakers out and a video out ports. Video port displays VGA, Composite Video and S-Video, in NTSC or PAL formats but requires the Apple Video Adapter, available in Apple stores for around $20. I really like the way that designers placed all the ports on just one side of the iBook - it looks neat.
Appearance
Keyboard and touchpad
The keyboard on the iBook is perfect. Typing on it is really a pleasure and the sound of pressing the keys is not obtrusive at all. My only dislike on iBook is related to the touchpad. When pressing it I often hear a plastic kind of sound that really starts to annoy me after some time. I cannot say if this is iBook specific or I was a bit unlucky when I received this exact notebook.
Portability
This is the beauty of the iBook; it is so light and so compact that I can transport it in almost every kind of bag. For now I just have a sleeve where I slide the iBook, and afterwards put the sleeve in one of my backpacks. I am in the process of buying a special made for 12" notebook bag, so I will share my thoughts as soon as I purchase it.
Final thoughts
Buying the iBook raised my productivity in both private and work related projects for at least 50%. There are situations where I come back home from a 12-hour work day (that comprises of working on computers) and I cannot watch the iBook just sleeping on a shelf. I need to use it, for at least checking some of the blogs or do some un-necessary e-mail communication. I was never so happy with any hardware I had, and I had a few.
The best thing about my iBook is that it is the perfect combination of good looks, powerful hardware, fantastic operating system - and the best of it, all that is stuffed in a beatiful 4.9 pounds white box.
XRackPro2 is a rack mount enclosure cabinet designed to reduce noise and add mobility to Apple’s Xserve line of servers and RAID systems. Noise from rack mount equipment located inside the XRackPro2 will be reduced up to 75% while the heavy duty caster wheels provide a method for easily moving the rolling rack enclosure cabinet when needed. XRackPro2 rackmount enclosures are used in scientific and medical work groups, video and audio post production, film and broadcast applications, graphics, animation, pre-press, military and any other environment that needs noise reduction and/or flexibility of equipment location. Important info sur machines a sous vous patiente sur notre site.
Robert Daeley writes: "When it comes right down to it, HTML editing is text editing. There will be times - such as SSHing into your server - that being able to do things via the CLI will be invaluable. Even if you're working on your local development box, having some powerful utilities in your tool belt can't hurt at all. I'll be focusing on how these few utilities can help while working with HTML on Mac OS X." Read the entire article here.
There's no question that iTunes and the iPod have revolutionized the way we listen to music. If you aren't familiar with iTunes, or if you think there's some feature you're missing (and there probably is), this chapter will give you the run-down on iTunes and how it will change the way you listen to music.
Chris Seibold writes: "There are a million schemes for increasing adoption of OS X. Everything from bundling a demo of the operating system on any iPod large enough to hold the data to an AOL style give away of demo copies on CD-ROM. Call it fallout from the Intel switch but since last June’s developer conference Apple fans have been falling all over themselves (including me) trying to come up with ways for OS X to rapidly expand the user base. Yet all the tactics rely on a key assumption: that people will, given a equal choice, choose OS X over Windows in a significant number of cases. Perhaps the underlying assumption is a little too hopeful." Read the entire column over at Apple Matters. Cool watch movie on our great website
The iBook 12" is an excellent compromise between mobility, robustness, performance and price. It can also be transformed to become a strong competitor for its brother, the PowerBook 12". However, it is impossible to equip the iBook 12" as a PowerBook 12" via the BTO from the Apple Store. So, it can be tempting to buy a basic iBook 12" model and upgrade it yourself into a highly performing mobile computer. This article is intended to provide you help to perform such transformation.
With Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface, it offers the fast data transfer rates required for substantial jobs like downloading digital photos, saving MP3s or transferring home videos from a camcorder. Available desktop models are: 160GB (white), 250GB (red), 300GB (blue) and 500GB (red). This makes a perfect Xmas gift that can complement every Mac. We all need backup, don't we? :)
BBEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text. BBEdit reliably transforms text with high performance. BBEdit 8.2.4 is a maintenance release that fixes reported issues and adds minor interface refinements to this award-winning HTML and text editor. The BBEdit 8.2.4 update package is available free of charge to all registered BBEdit 8 customers.
Giles Turnbull at the MacDevCenter writes: "Anyone with the need to write daily notes should take a serious look at Journler. The name suggests its use is restricted to writing a journal, but it offers much more than that. Written by Philip Dow to meet his own needs, Journler uses every Cocoa trick in the book to bring you additional features and clever ways of organizing your data."
Xitel's HiFi-Link for iPod lets you combine the versatility of your iPod with the power of your home stereo. Its unique dock configuration greatly extends your iPod’s connectivity, allowing it to seamlessly integrate with anything from a top-of-the-line surround sound system through to a simple boombox or powered speakers.
It includes a composite video output enabling photo and movie viewing on any TV, a remote that works up to 50 feet and adjustable Trubass processing by SRS Labs.
CenterStage is on open source project to build a powerful and intuitive media center application for the Mac. The latest release features an improved skin (optimized for 1280x720), much faster browsing of media, resolution switching in the preferences, and much more.
The CEO Billfold is an elegant, full-grain leather wallet designed for use in a jacket pocket. It holds the nano and all your business essentials securely in one place. If this isn't a perfect gift for your corporate geek than I don't know what is :)
Google Analytics looks like a cool product. I was thinking about replacing the current web statistics software on one of the sites I am working on, but I was turned down by the inability of viewing the reports in Safari. MacTips has published info on a simple workaround: "Try to force a reflow of the page, e.g. by hitting “Cmd +†or “Cmd -†to resize the text. The charts will appear." I just tried it and it works.
In case you lose your iPod (or any other external drive for that matter) or it gets stolen your data is in danger. I'm one of those people that constantly carries data on their iPod between two locations and I want to keep it safe. What follows is a brief tutorial aimed at those that want their data protected without investing in commercial software. In case you didn't know, you can increase your privacy pretty easily with features embedded directly into Mac OS X.
What I prefer to use for this task is the Disk Utility, you'll find it in - Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility. The easiest way to follow this tutorial is to do the work at the same time so I suggest you open it and just follow my instructions.
Once you start the Disk Utility the following window opens up:
What we are interested here is creating a new image and in order to do that you'll have to use the - you guessed it - New Image option located in the upper left corner. Click on it once and you'll be prompted to give the image a name, choose the format and the encryption:
As the format goes, you can choose to create an image by using a preset between 2.5 MB and 4.7 GB (and 8 GB on Mac OS X 10.4) or you can use a custom size that fits your requirements.
Since the purpose of this article is to teach you how to make a secure backup of your files that you can modify on other Macs, I'm going to make a read/write image encrypted with 128-bit AES. Some will argue that this is not enough, and they're right. I wouldn't trust this for enterprise secrets but for information that most of us carry around this will be just fine. The purpose is not to give a stranger the easy way of browsing your files and not deter the NSA, there's commercial software that can give you enterprise-level security but that's beyond the scope of this article.
Once the image is created you'll be promted to enter a password, use something you can remember since without the password there's no way to access the image in the future:
Once the password has been entered the image is mounted and ready for use on your desktop and will look something like this:
After you've filled the image with the data you want to carry around just eject it as you would any other image and connect your iPod to your Mac. Now for the easy part - copy the image to your iPod and you're done!
What I like about this approach is that it's fast, easy and it already comes with your Mac. This means that you can securely carry your data around and modify it on another Mac with no additional software.
TiVo is expanding its video recording service so users will be able to transfer recorded television shows onto iPods or the PlayStation Portable - the latest move aimed at putting TV in people's hands for viewing anywhere. TiVo officials said shows recorded via TiVoToGo will have digital watermarks. The extra encoding will follow the copied program wherever it goes, giving TiVo the ability to trace the origin of a transferred program that might get posted freely onto the Internet.
Tom Adelstein writes at LXer: "Apple can alter its business plan slightly and become the well-liked dominant force in the technology market. Everything Apple needs sits right in front of them for the taking. We're just sitting here waiting to restart global innovation and take the PC to the next step."
Bluetooth - its name is cool, but what can you really do with it? If you're curious, let Michael Yuan take you on a tour through the myriad use cases for Bluetooth-enabled devices, from car kits to social networking. He also provides overviews on the technology behind Bluetooth, and how to use it. If you're considering Bluetooth, either for app development or to create your own cable-free personal area network, this is a good place to start.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs and the ever shrinking iPod was spoofed on Saturday Night Live on Saturday. After a mention of the iPod nano and the 5G (video) iPod, “Jobs†came on to decry that the latest iPods were two big and introduced increasingly “smaller†ones. First was the iPod Micro, which holds 50,000 songs, but which would be obsolete by Thanksgiving. In case you didn't catch SNL check out the entire story for all the details.
Yes, you can spend extra dollars for Apple's sleek white video cable for TV connectivity, or you can hack your own together for cheap. This article shows you how.
A unique entry in the MAKE blog shows off a Powebook etched with a 19th-century engraving of a tarsier, a nocturnal mammal related to the lemur (also the vi book cover image from O'Reilly). This is not something you can do at home, unless you have a $20,000 laser cutter laying around in the garage :) The entry page contains a few photos and since the entire process was recorded a video has been announced as well. I wonder how many people would use such a service on their Powerbooks if Apple made it available. They aready engrave iPods for free anyway.
We all have different jobs, hobbies and ways of using our Macs. Some are programmers, others are designers, office clerks or just casual surfers. It doesn't matter what you use your Mac for, there's always some software you can't live without. This is exactly the point of this article where the author presents two lists, one for the novice Mac user and one for the advanced user. Check it our, it may contain software you haven't tried yet.
LensTweaker is a great tool to go with your digital camera. With just a few simple steps you can calibrate your camera lens and automatically remove the lens distortion from your pictures. Features include: camera calibration, automatic distortion removal, manual distortion removal, easy image brightness, contrast, saturation, tint and exposure correction, metadata visualization.
Here's another accessory that will be interesting during the holiday season. PodFolio for video iPods offers complete surface protection, plush, padded flip cover, and a leather covered belt clip. It's made from hand-stitched leather and features a padded protective flip cover, a leather-covered sewn-in belt clip and play-through access that allows you to control their video iPod without removing it from the case.
Daystar Technology, an Apple Authorized Reseller and Mac Performance Integrator, is completing development of the first XLR8 PowerBook G4 (Aluminum) CPU Upgrade. The PowerBook G4 upgrade will be a full system upgrade, requiring the user to send their PowerBook to Daystar for installation. Pricing and final specifications are expected to be announced closer to the actual product release date.
ConceptDraw MINDMAP enables individual users, professionals and teams easily capture ideas, sort, structure and present various information as clear visual maps. MacNN posted a review and they seem pretty satisfied:"The mind map helps to organize your ideas, procedures, and notes, so that a cohesive whole process is drawn out." In case you're interested, there is 30-day trial version available.
EMI Group boss Alain Levy said that he believed Jobs would introduce multiple price points for iTunes music within the next year. Apple officials were unavailable for comment. If Levy is correct, the new pricing scheme would mark a turnaround for Jobs, who has argued that a buck a song was an easy to understand proposition for consumers and a victory for the music business.
Yuval Kossovsky published a lengthy review of the new Power Mac G5 Quad over at Computerworld. Early on in the article you realize he was impressed with the machine: "Yesterday, I had an hour to work with Apple Computer Inc.’s new Power Mac Quad G5, and for anyone in the broadcast, sciences, music, print and photography industries, I have some advice: Place your orders now!"
MemoryMiner, a desktop application for Mac OS X (version 10.3 and higher), enables users to link together pictures, audio, video and other mementos to create meaningful and coherent digital stories spanning across generations, location and time. This new application is now available for a free beta-trial download. Early adopters will be instrumental in the further development of this new multi-media platform.
Mac GNU Privacy Guard is the Mac OS X port of the popular security utility. I have been using GnuPG for more than 5 years now and it is the best available open source solution for various encryption purposes. This article guides the reader through Mac GNU Privacy Guard installation, as well as its basic functions.
As with all the software downloads and especially the ones that are connected to your security or privacy, you should check the file integrity. By doing this, users can verify the authenticity of files, since if a file was changed (say, with the addition of malicious code) the hash fingerprint of the file would change. Many software packages available for download have a check file or an MD5 hash that allows users to verify the file. In this case, GNU Privacy Guard 1.4.1 has the following MD5 hash: f4eb3c7d233e18fd1bf56d6bb576bbd9 (btw this hash is mentioned on the download page).
To check the MD5 hash, go to the folder where you downloaded GNU Privacy Guard and do the following:
MD5 (GnuPG1.4.1.dmg) = f4eb3c7d233e18fd1bf56d6bb576bbd9
As you can see, the "fingerprint" mentioned on the product homepage and the one of the downloaded file are the same. This gives you a green light for starting the installation process. The installation is pretty straight-forward and it needs just a couple of clicks.
After installing GnuPG, you need is to generate your personal set of keys:
gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.1; Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
Now you should choose the type of the key to use. DSA is a public key algorithm used for creating digital signatures. The key size in DSA is 512 to 1024 bits. ElGamal is a cryptosystem that consists of both signature and encryption variants. The default option is DSA and ElGamal.
(1) DSA and Elgamal (default)
(2) DSA (sign only)
(5) RSA (sign only)
Your selection?
As regarding the key size in this case, the default option is 2048, so do carry on with it.
ELG-E keys may be between 1024 and 4096 bits long.
What keysize do you want? (2048)
In some specific cases people want their keys to expire after a period of time. I usually use "key does not expire" and I recommend this to averge users.
Please specify how long the key should be valid.
0 = key does not expire
Key is valid for? (0)
The following is pretty self-explanatory.
Is this correct? (y/N) y
Now it is time to setup your personal information. While you can use a bogus name or e-mail address, it is recommended to use the right credentials. Try filling in the e-mail address you will actually use, as it will be easier to integrate GnuPG functionality with your e-mail client.
constructs the user ID from the Real Name, Comment and Email
Address in this form:
"Heinrich Heine (Der Dichter)
Real name: Berislav NonStopMac
Email address: btest@nonstopmac.com
Comment: NonStopMac Test key
You selected this USER-ID:
Berislav NonStopMac (NonStopMac Test key)
btest@nonstopmac.com
Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? O
After this step you need to enter a password to use for your private key. Make sure the password is well constructed.
The last part of the setup procedure needs some interaction. Because of the randomization purposes, do use your keyboard and mouse while this process is running.
idea to perform some other action (type on the keyboard, move
the mouse, utilize the disks) during the prime generation;
this gives the random number generator a better chance to gain
enough entropy.
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The following shows that your setup was successful and you are currently a proud owner of brand new set of GnuPG keys.
created
gpg: key B41C636A marked as ultimately trusted
public and secret key created and signed.
gpg: checking the trustdb
gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, PGP
trust model
gpg: depth: 0 valid: 1 signed: 0 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n,
0m, 0f, 1u
pub 1024D/B41C636A 2005-11-14
Key fingerprint =
4697 6243 6B14 DF8C F2C5 1DF2 0254 5F46 B714 626B
uid Berislav NonStopMac (NonStopMac Test key)
sub 2048g/363606A8 2005-11-14
GNU Privacy Guard can be used for multiple security functions, I will cover two most common ones - file encryption and person-to-person communication. They have one thing in common - encryption of files or text, but the difference is that for private communication you need to do a public key exchange. Did you ever hear of PKI (public key infrastructure)? It may sound complicated, but with using GnuPG you are actually working in the PKI waters.
PKI enables users of a basically insecure public network to securely and privately exchange data through the use of a public and a private cryptographic key pair that is obtained and shared through a trusted authority or by direct exchange.
Let's say that we need to encrypt a textual file and send it to a colleague of ours. The first thing we need to do is to exchange public keys. This is done because we encrypt the file for our peer by using his public key. On this way, we are sure that the file we are encrypting is aimed specifically toward our colleague.
Exporting the public key can be done on two ways. This command will basically spill out the public key into the terminal, so you can easily copy it to the clipboard.
The following command automatically exports and saves your file into a specific file. Just a note, this command should go into one line, I just divided it into two lines for easier reading.
/tmp/bkucan.key
After you and your colleague exported keys and exchanged them, each of you needs to import other ones public key:
To check out if everything went fine, you can use gpg executable to list the keys in your database.
/Users/Berislav/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
----------------------------------
pub 1024D/B71C626B 2005-11-14
uid Berislav NonStopMac (NonStopMac Test key)
sub 2048g/363606A8 2005-11-14
pub 1024D/A32A628B 2005-11-14
uid Mike Jones (My business key)
sub 2048g/443626A3 2005-11-14
Mike Jones' key was successfully imported. Now lets encrypt a specific file. You need to use the -r switch for entering the recipient’s name. Btw from the output above, Mike Jones is the name and (My business key) is the key description.
While doing this the software might ask you to confirm if the key you have for Mike Jones is certainly the one you want to use. If you come across this, just hit "Y" for yes (note: in some specific cases, where you would have two keys from the same person, you should double check before clicking yes). Now you just created an encrypted file. Check this out by trying:
-rw-r--r-- 1 bk bk 303 14 Nov 2005 secret.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 bk bk 303 14 Nov 2005 secret.txt.gpg
As you can probably see, the newly created *.gpg file is the encrypted version of secret.txt. By opening the encrypted file in any text editor, you will just see a lot of random strange characters.
The final thing you will need is the information on decrypting the encrypted files. The following command decrypts the content of encrypted secret.txt file and saves it into newly created file.txt.
For more information on GnuPG usage, please do check the manual or search Google. Also, Non Stop mac will soon publish more articles on specific usage of GNU Privacy Guard, so do check us out periodically.
References:
+ WikiPedia - File Verification
+ Mac GNU Privacy Guard Homepage
+ Primode.com Glossary pages
+ LinuxChick GPG article, page 5
+ Creating Secure Backups With GnuPG
This tool enables you to view, search, save and share the webpages you’ve visited. You can also surf thumbnails of your browser history, export web pages as PDFs to save or to share via email and more, all in a simple interface.
For more information and a trial download check out this page.
Unsanity released a new product - Chat Transcript Manager - that will index all of your iChat and Adium X chat transcripts and allow you to find what you need in a snap. Some of the features include: fast transcripts import, dynamic chat updates, full address book support, customizable chat display, and much more. The software is shareware and since it's new the people at Unsanity are offering everyone a $10 discount, valid 'till the end of the month.
One of the best open source and free pen testing applications available on the Internet today is the Metasploit Project. Metasploit is a very good tool to use to check and see if any services on your network are vulnerable for any one of the numerous publicly available exploits available in the Metasploit Framework. Read more about the usage of the Metasploit Framework at the Macintosh Security blog.
A Better Finder Rename is the most comprehensive file renaming solution for the Macintosh and transforms the tedious and time-consuming task of renaming multiple files into a simple matter of seconds. A Better Finder Rename 7 is the result of a complete 10-month rewrite of the 70,000+ lines of code that made up the version 6.9.5 release.
GUBA, a pioneer in Internet-based multimedia search technology, announced immediate availability of a new Apple iPod Video feature for its subscribers. GUBA now offers the first-ever capability to watch videos from Usenet, automatically transcode those videos directly into the correct iPod video format and to seamlessly download them into iTunes to sync with the iPod.
In this article the author shows you how Tiger Mac OS X runs regularly scheduled commands and scripts to execute recurring jobs, like system maintenance and backups by comparing the "old" way, using the Unix tool called cron (for chronological), with the new Tiger method of using the launchd daemon.
Centralized authentication greatly simplifies network administration. This post teaches how to log in to a Mac or Linux computer using centrally managed user accounts from a Windows Active Directory domain controller. With this configuration, the same Windows user accounts can be used to log in to any of the three operating systems, Mac OS, Linux, or Windows, with the same user network folder auto-mounted.
There are a lot of gadgets that can make life on the road easier and more productive. Since the holiday season is coming soon I think your geek would be happy to get something he truly appreciates, not that sweater you were thinking about. A few ideas can be found in this article over at Macworld. With such a bold title I expected a larger list but hopefully the comments on the article are going to reveal more interesting stuff.
OSNews is running a comprehensive article about the new dual core Power Mac. In the author's own words: "From the outside, the PowerMac G5 is a beautiful machine. It is entirely aluminum, brushed to a gorgeous silver-white color. The perforated front contrasts nicely with the solid sides, and the white pulsing power light is a sophisticated accent. The machine is as solid, and heavy, as a rock."
The "Evening at Adler" video and audio are available here. This was that little deal where some of the brightest indies in the Mac scene descended upon Chicago for a casual conversation on October 21st, 2005. Some of the discussed topics were: making a living writing for the Mac, software patents, competing with Apple, digital rights management (DRM), software activation, bugs, Ajax, unit testing, building communities, the x86 transition, and much much more.
Authors: Michael Bartosha and Ryan Faas
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596006357
Pages: 846
It doesn't matter what Operating System you are running on your server, good documentation is always needed. If you think of quality computer books you probably think of O'Reilly first, somehow they always seem to be ahead of the competition. Let's see what value this book brings to Macintosh system administrators.
The first thing that you notice when looking at this book is the size, with its 846 pages it doesn't have to be just a manual, you can most certainly use it as a weapon as well :)
The authors kick off by writing about deployment planning and the installation/configuration of Mac OS X Server. Here you can find a lot of material on system administration in general and some tools. What follows is information related to the Open Directory Server and then various network services (xinetd, DNS, DHCP and NAT) and file services (Apple Filing Protocol, Windows File Services, FTP, etc.).
Since a good system administrator never forgets to pay attention to security issues I was not surprised to find a lot of space dedicated to security throughout the book. The authors show off the Mac OS X Server firewall and offer all sorts of good pointers.
Since we're dealing with a book that discusses a server OS it's natural to have information about client management, Web and mail services. There's also an appendix - Introduction to Directory Services.
The level of detail in this book is amazing. "Essential Mac OS X Panther Server Administration" is geared toward the Macintosh system administrator but, with the aid of this book, enthusiasts new to the job will get things up and running fast. With such in-depth coverage of basically everything you may need, this book deserves a prominent place on your bookshelf, preferably near the desk so you can always have it handy.
To get more information I invite you to check out the book's page at O'Reilly where you can download in PDF chapter 3 - "Server Management Tools".
On2 Technologies announced that it is extending high quality Flash 8 video encoding capabilities to users of Apple Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro. With the release of On2 Flix Exporter 8 for Macintosh with built in support for Apple Compressor, Apple's automated media encoding tool integrated with Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro, the entire Apple community of digital media designers now have the ability to output digital media content to high quality Flash 8 video formats (FLV).
On2 Flix Exporter 8 for Macintosh version 8.003 was developed based on information received from Apple Developer Support to ensure seamless integration within the Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro workflows. As a result, users can output content to high quality Flash 8 video formats directly from the Final Cut Pro or DVD Studio Pro tool bars, without leaving the application or interrupting the creative process. Additionally, On2 Flix Exporter 8 for Macintosh customers are assured optimal Flash 8 video quality as On2 Technologies developed the video compression technology that Macromedia selected for their Flash 8 family of products.
On2 Flix Exporter 8 for Macintosh:
TuneBox is a speaker system for iPod shuffle that also charges your iPod while playing music. Though it's designed to visually complement the iPod shuffle, TuneBox delivers great sound from any Mp3 player or other audio device that uses the standard 3.5mm stereo jack. If you want more details I suggest you check out this review at macteens: "This speaker set is ridiculously small and light - let’s say, more so than a wallet. In its lightweight design, the TuneBox can be situated most anywhere you want to hear your music."
iStumbler is the leading wireless discovery tool for Mac OS X and in this interview with its creator, Alf Watt, you can read about the project in general, various wireless security issues as well as recent developments that will make iStumbler a paid tool in its Pro version.
While you may use your computer for a bunch of different things, I presume that at least once you needed to do a screen capture. Because of its friendliness and availability, Dashboard is a great place to host a screen capture software. “Capture†was the first widget I installed after buying my iBook and it served me quite well. It is time to share my thoughts on all the aspects of this handy utility.
The Capture widget user interface offers a rather intuitive way of using the common screen capture modes. Altough the icons are a bit too small, placing a cursor above any of the icons makes the description of the function become visible. The common capture modes include: full screen, specific window and custom selection. If you want to capture widgets, there is a quite nice option that makes you hide or show Dashboard.
The utility lets you save the screenshots in a number of different file types: jpg, tiff, png, gif, jp2, pict, bmp, qtif, psd and pdf. I usually use just some of these formats, so here is the breakdown of file sizes for the Non Stop Mac web site running in a full screen Safari window: jpg – 288 kb , psd – 960 kb and pdf – 208 kb. From my perspective, this is quite good.
Here's a screenshot of this website captured at 30% of the original size:
The size option is quite good for minimizing your work experience with specific images. This comes especially handy when you want to create a thumbnail or a smaller size image out of a full screen or window capture. The size variable offers scaling down from 100% to 10%. As you can see from the screenshot above, there is an easy to use ruler to setup the scale down size. I would love to see an option where you can change the size with keyboard “left and right†buttons, as it would make the fine tuning process a bit easier.
One last thing to mention is save to clipboard option. This is a rather good function that can automatically save the screenshot into clipboard for further usage in other programs.
I use this widget all the time and it works just perfectly. The only feature it lacks, and this is pure subjective, is a time mode. When talking about time, I am thinking about one specific perspective: if you would be able to set a time frame of let’s say 5 seconds, you would be able to capture some things like program properties (right click button menus), mouse and cursor actions etc. If you are still unclear on why am I mentioning this, it is purely because when you use normal screen capture modes, you either need to use the mouse to do a selection or you can capture a predefined window. This means that you cannot capture any functions that result from mouse actions.
Some of you will probably ask why do I need a capture utility, when with the right combination of keys, Mac OS X built in functions can do same thing. Well, the thing is that these functions are quite limited and I tend to forget the key combo, so it is by far more productive just to click on the Dashboard icon in my dock.
Capture widget can be downloaded from the Widgets section of the Apple website, but I just found out that the version listed there (0.7.5) is an old one. Download the latest 0.7.9 release from VanillaSoap.
John Gruber over at Daring Fireball published probably the most in-depth review of a piece of hardware I've ever read. He recently got a 15" Powerbook and this is the result as he covers everything starting from the appearance, the keyboard, RAM, the display, etc. But that's not all, Gruber gets into the fact that Apple will release Intel-based Powerbooks in 2006 and gives a few points on why it's good to wait for them or not. If this doesn't get your mind cleared up about wether a Powerbook is a good choice than nothing will.
First off, this is still not confirmed. However, Think Secret reports: "An Apple developer recently put together a 13 minute video demonstrating the capabilities of a yet unreleased development tool dubbed Dashcode. Designed to make developing Widgets as easy as possible, Dashcode sports an efficient and polished interface that can accommodate novice and expert JavaScript/Widget developers alike." The idea is great and I think it's only natural for Apple to come out with a product like this.
With a wealth of new features and enhancements, Pro Tools 7 delivers significantly expanded recording and editing capabilities for audio and MIDI, greater mixing power and flexibility, enhanced efficiency, and improved ease of use.
Experiment more freely with MIDI tracks using new real-time MIDI processing capabilities. Capitalize on mirrored MIDI editing to automatically alter copies of MIDI regions throughout a session. Use the new Zoom Toggle button to quickly enter an editor view mode for easy editing of audio and MIDI. Choose the new Link Track and Edit Selection option to apply track-level commands across multiple tracks at the same time. In addition to these features, nearly every MIDI operation window includes enhancements, making it faster and easier to work with MIDI than ever before.
Enhanced support for multi-processor computers and improvements to the RTAS environment in Pro Tools 7 software increase plug-in counts up to 150% on dual-processor computers. In many cases, you’ll be able to run more than twice as many RTAS plug-ins and virtual instruments on your sessions.
Even with all of its additions and improvements, Pro Tools 7 software is still one of the easiest audio applications to use. Menus have been streamlined and organized more logically, though key commands remain the same. A new Tool Tips feature provides descriptions of objects within the interface when the cursor is placed over them so you can get better acquainted with the interface.
CNET News: "Companies shouldn't rush to upgrade to Microsoft Windows Vista, according to analysts at Gartner, who believe most could safely hold back until 2008." MacDailyNews : Why not hold back on Windows Vista forever, if you're really concerned about doing things safely? Mac OS X. Zero viruses. No spyware, adware, or malware. Five years and counting. Read on for the full CNET news item, as well as all the MacDailyNews comments on it.
The Griffin AirClick for iPod and iPod mini lets you hook up your iPod to your sound system and wander through the house while in full control of your tunes. Pause your iPod to answer the door and then crank it up without even going in the room.
AirClick USB is a remote for Mac and PC computers. The receiver module attaches to any available USB port and receives signal from up to 60 feet away. AirClick USB is ideal for controlling applications including iTunes, QuickTime, and even Keynote or PowerPoint. AirClick uses RF signals that travel through walls for control anywhere in your home or outside, up to 60 feet away.
For a review of the AirClick USB I invite you to point your browsers to macteens Magazine. According to the authors: "All in all, the AirClick USB delivers performance as advertised in a very elegant way, albeit with limiting software. Its use of RF and extended range are true winners."
One of the most talked about features of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger was certainly Automator, a tool that brought the power of automation to the masses. With a myriad of presets already present in Automator it's easy for anyone to achieve increased productivity in a short period of time.
Moreover, since you can see how the actions are put together it will not take you long to get into the groove yourself and start making some of your own. And there's so much you can do: burn photos to a DVD, covert files between formats, and more. Think of it like a way to efficiently eliminate repetitive and tedious tasks.
Macworld published a good introductory article about Automator that I would recommend to every new Tiger user. It would be a shame not to use Automator when it can offer so much.
Mail Factory is an elegant application to design and print address labels and envelopes on Mac OS X. Addresses can be taken from Apple Address Book, Entourage or other sources. The program allows you to efficiently manage all your mailings and requires no learning curve. You can print on most popular address label and envelope formats as well as create own personalized labels. Version 2.2 was recently released and it features many improvements.
A new article at the Apple Developer Connection will be of great interest to developers on Mac OS X: "If you don't know about Subversion already, you should. It's an open-source version control system that was developed to extend the functionality provided by CVS, and is particularly well supported in Mac OS X. Using this cutting-edge version control system can help you code more efficiently and effectively, allowing you to focus on what the Mac developer community is famous for: great applications."
Doom was one of my first PC games and I loved it. With the technology progressing, people are trying to out do themselves. If someone made a fully working web server implanted into a fly, porting Doom to iPods doesn't seem so strange. iDoom can be installed on any iPod that runs the iPodlinux platform. iPodlinux currently only supports third generation iPods, but the community forums offer good hacks for other iPods. As you probably presume, installing all of these software packages to your device will ruin your warranty. For the downloads, as well as some screenshots and videos, do visit the iDoom site.
Since Apple is considered to be quite security conscious I was not surprised to find out that they have filed a patent that describes a method for securely running Mac OS X on specific hardware. The patent covers a "system and method for creating tamper-resistant code". In its application, Apple describes a means of securing code using either a specific hardware address or read-only memory (ROM) serial number.
Although not approved by Apple, Mac OS X can be installed on x86 machines. ZDNet UK published an article where you can see how good it functions.
I know there have been many tests before but this is the first one I found that has been made by a major publication so I imagine they were very careful when writing an opinion on the experience.
gDisk is a great piece of software that turns your GMail account into a portable hard drive so you can always have your important files accessible accross the Internet. And to make things even more interesting, gDisk is free.
The Mozilla Organization today released Camino 1.0b1, the anticipated new version of this popular browser for the Mac. The developers advise users to update to this version since it contains several important security fixes as well as various other fixes.
Some of the features that come with this version are:
- New tab bar appearance.
- Download pause and resume.
- Annoyance blocking (advertisements, popups, and more).
- Certificate support for improved security.
- Java Embedding Plugin to bring better Java performance.
- Form fill from the address book (using the menu item or optional toolbar icon).
- History searching.
