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A utility for looking up Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts, something that recent switchers from Linux or Windows probably need to do quite a bit! The xCuts are organized by Category, Scope, and Object, and you can even drill down to a second cross-referenced level if you need to. Or just use the fast live search form.
Encryption can be used to keep the contents of the email safe from prying eyes. It can also be used to certify that the message a person receives was actually issued by the individual listed in the messages from field. Email encryption is a complicated process that is simply convoluted for the average computer user. Mac users are no exception, so here’s a rundown on the ins and outs of encrypted email.
Apple has delayed the release of its TV set-top box. Initially the company said the $299 device would ship in February, but now expects it to go in mid-March.
Soundstream has colorful Flurry-like streams pulse to the beat of music or bloom with ambient noise.
EyeTV-compatible tuners, like those offered by Elgato and Miglia, are the television tuners of choice for the Macintosh. These tuners provide analog and digital, standard and high definition solutions for Mac TV-watching. You can sit in front of your Mac and watch your shows as they record. But say you want to watch a show in your living room or bedroom? Sure you can wait for the show to finish recording, copy it over your local network, and then watch it. Or you can put on your hacker's cap and stream it in real time. If you need quality research paper writer services come to ResearchPaperMonster.com.
Light aircraft maker LoPresti Speed Merchants is adding the ability to use an iPod as a flight data recorder, more commonly known as "black box," to its Fury piston aircraft. The airplane will include an iPod dock connector, and will be able to send data to the iPod for storage.
Red Sweater Software acquired MarsEdit, the popular weblog publishing software, from NewsGator Technologies, Inc. The acquisition promises an exciting future for the application, which provides an intuitive, email-like interface to the web's most popular publishing systems.
MarsEdit's simplicity and power make it the tool of choice for many of the platform's leading writers.
"Nearly every word I write for Daring Fireball is published through MarsEdit," said John Gruber, author of the popular Daring Fireball weblog. "It's a terrific tool, and I'm glad to see it in good hands. I can't wait to start pummeling Daniel with feature requests."
Daniel Jalkut, the founder of Red Sweater Software, is himself an avid blogger. "MarsEdit has long been one of my favorite applications, so it's a thrill to welcome it into the Red Sweater family of products," he said. "I am both passionate and confident about steering MarsEdit into the future."
MarsEdit makes it easy to share your thoughts with the entire world, or just with your friends. Red Sweater Software's acquisition promises even greater things for the future of MarsEdit, taking the powerful publishing platform to the next level of power and ease.
Red Sweater Software will continue to offer existing MarsEdit customers free upgrades for all 1.x releases of the product.
To read a Q&A about the acquisition with Brent Simmons and Daniel Jalkut go here.
After a year in public beta, Adobe has released Photoshop Lightroom 1.0, a brand-new workflow tool that combines image editing and photo management with the ability to produce slide shows, high-quality prints, and Web portfolios. Like Apple’s Aperture, against which it competes, Lightroom is designed as a professional-level product that also appeals to serious amateur photographers. After a year in development, Lightroom is a feature-rich and powerful tool, even in its version-1.0 state.
Pierre Igot writes: "Mac OS X’s Mail has a pretty long history of sheer idiocy when it comes to sending e-mail messages. But there is one aspect that has always been particularly irritating to me, not just as a Mail user myself, but as someone who provides Mac tech support services to other Mail users."
With the introduction of AirPort Extreme 802.11n base stations, Apple announced that the majority of its current machines are compatible with the draft of that standard via a drive update. On the other hand, the MacBook and MacBook Pro Core Duo aren't likely to get compatible Airport modules. For Apple, these machines are condemned to always remain at 802.11g. Read on to discover how this situation can change.
Everyone loves the iPod. Not everyone loves iTunes. It's not that iTunes is a bad application, but it does limit what you can do with your iPod. This article will show you how to free yourself from the one computer, one music library shackles of iTunes using alternative software for managing the iPod. When you're done here, you'll be able to add music and movies to your iPod from any computer - and retain almost every other useful feature iTunes brings to your iPod.
To replace the swirly blue background image that normally appears behind the login window, simply replace the Aqua Blue.jpg file stored in /Library/Desktop Pictures with an image of your own. If the file isn’t named properly, or the file type is wrong, you’ll see a solid blue screen instead of your custom image.
Behind the scenes in the making of the iPhone, Apple bucked the rules of the cellphone industry by wresting control away from the normally powerful wireless carriers. These service providers usually hold enormous sway over how phones are developed and marketed -- controlling every detail from processing power to the various features that come with the phone. Not so with Apple and Cingular. Only three executives at the carrier, which is now the wireless unit of AT&T, got to see the iPhone before it was announced. Cingular agreed to leave its brand off the body of the phone. Upsetting some Cingular insiders, it also abandoned its usual insistence that phone makers carry its software for Web surfing, ringtones and other services.
If you want to run Windows applications on your Intel powered Mac, you will be happy to learn that there are three different ways. The first method is by using Crossover for Mac, the second is using Parallels, and the third method is using Boot Camp. Each has their own advantages and disadvantages. This article will explain the differences between these programs and from there you should be able to figure out which method works best for you.
When you create a new empty folder in OS X (Shift-Command-N), it’s created with the name untitled folder. With just a bit of mucking about in the Finder’s internals, you can set the default name for new folders to anything you like.
A tiny sub-notebook on its way from Apple is expected to re-establish the Mac maker as a leader in the field of compact computing while drawing parallels to the legendary PowerBook 2400 along the way.
Apple has issued a security update containing five patches for vulnerabilities disclosed during January's Month of Apple Bugs (MoAB) project. Of the five flaws fixed in the update, only one is rated as a 'high' risk by the US Computer Emergency Response Team.
A little more than a year ago, after Apple launched its first Intel-based Mac, some Apple users were hopeful that adopting the same processors as the Windows crowd would let Mac users quickly get their hands on the best games. Now Apple's entire lineup has moved over to Intel, and Mac users are still forced to wait for the best games. Some decide to buy a Windows machine just to play.
The conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan once grumpily lamented the rise of "the iPod people." Walking down a New York street in February 2005, Sullivan saw each person "in his own musical world, walking to their soundtrack, stars in their own music video, almost oblivious to the world around them." Even as he copped to owning an iPod of his own—one of 67 million sold since its debut in 2001—Sullivan saw civilization crumbling in the friendly, well-designed face of the little Apple digital music player.
In the first head-to-head comparison of trying to accomplish a task with Mac OS and Vista in this series, the new Windows operating system fell flat on its face. Migrating from an XP installation was halted by repeated failures of the Windows Easy Transfer application when used with a network connection and a so-called Easy Transfer Cable.
Everyone’s got an opinion on iPod, and everyone thinks they know the player inside out. They’re wrong. Here’s five facts you never knew about Apple’s almighty music machine.
One of the biggest advances in Spotlight is that it will be able to search remote computers. This is a big deal for home users, who have different files -- think digital photos and music -- stored on different Macs. You'll be able to search across all the Macs in your house for that one photo that you know you downloaded from your camera but can't find or for the particular CD track you ripped but don't remember on which of three Macs you placed it.
Lionsgate and Apple announced that movies from Lionsgate will be available for purchase and download on the iTunes Store starting today. iTunes customers will be able to purchase blockbuster Lionsgate films like “Terminator 2,†“LA Story,†“Basic Instinct,†“The Blair Witch Project†and “Dirty Dancing†and more than 150 titles coming to iTunes this month. The iTunes Store has become the world’s most popular online movie store, with a catalog of over 400 titles.
Lionsgate’s renowned collection of movie titles available on iTunes in the coming weeks include legendary action adventure films and thrillers such as “Total Recall†and “Rambo,†indie classics such as “Monster’s Ball†as well as perennial favorites such as “Chaplin†and “The Boys From Brazil.â€
The iTunes Store features the world’s largest catalog with over four million songs, 350 television shows and, with the addition of Lionsgate, over 400 movies. The iTunes Store has sold over two billion songs, 50 million TV shows and over 1.3 million movies, making it the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store.
Movies purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store can be viewed on a computer, Apple TV or fifth generation iPod® and most are priced at $9.99 (US) each. Movies downloaded from the iTunes Store are downloaded in near-DVD quality at a resolution of 640x480 (up to 480, depending on the aspect ratio).
Lionsgate is the leading independent filmed entertainment studio and the Company is a premier producer and distributor of motion pictures, television programming, home entertainment, family entertainment and video-on-demand content. Its prestigious and prolific library of more than 10,000 titles is a valuable source of recurring revenue and a foundation for the growth of the Company’s core businesses. The Lionsgate brand is synonymous with original, daring, quality entertainment in markets around the globe.
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning desktop and notebook computers, OS X operating system, and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital music revolution with its iPod portable music players and iTunes online store.
MailTemplate automates the process of composing e-mail messages. Using predefined templates with embedded macros, MailTemplate dramatically reduces the time involved in composing both replies and new e-mail messages.
Every house has cardboard boxes and filing cabinets full of receipts, important medical records, old letters and income tax returns, usually inconveniently stuck in the basement somewhere. Yep finally gives you a tool to keep all these documents in one place, instantly retrievable and searchable.
If you need to have a collection of vital information always in your pocket but you don't want to carry a notebook around, you can always use PagePacker that enables you to use the technique of cutting and folding pieces of paper into little books.
Socialist is a revolutionary social bookmark manager that works with del.icio.us and your RSS feeds. You can quickly and easily subscribe to friends and tags on del.icio.us or to an RSS feed to get the latest information.
It’s not often you’ll find a large collection of high-quality fonts, also available free of charge. But that’s what you’ll get with today’s tip: free fonts. From where, you might ask? No less a source than Apple themselves. Just point your browser to Apple’s Scriptable Applications - iTunes page, then click the Download the iTunes for Mac OS X script collection link.
Converting a bunch of AVI files to a DVD shouldn't require a Computer Science degree. Getting movies from your digital camera to your iPod shouldn't take hours. Wading through a sea of video formats shouldn't pull you under. VisualHub bridges the gap between numerous complicated video formatting standards, and people that just want to get the job done - just what you would expect from the Mac.
In Gates’s view, Microsoft came up with these features, Apple copied them, and Apple got them into their shipping product first because Microsoft was spending so much time improving Vista’s security. Uh-huh. Gruber has all the details.
To enable high-quality video calls with Skype for Mac, first download the latest version of Skype for Mac. You need version 2.5.0.85 or newer. Then follow these instructions.
JC writes: "As an admin, sometimes you want to tweak the dock a bit when you can't sit at the Mac or VNC in to it. Luckily, the Dock is governed by a plist that's a bit cryptic, but is otherwise fairly easy to tweak. I used this quite a bit, back in the day, but when a friend asked me for it recently, I had to dig around quite a bit to find the darn thing."
Correo is an new open-source mail client that blends technology from two popular Mozilla projects, Camino and Thunderbird, to create a polished native Macintosh application.
All Lightroom fans will be excited to learn that a great book is to be released about it in March. PhotoshopNews has a free PDF download of Chapter 1.
As a professional photographer, author Martin Evening knows firsthand what photographers need for a more efficient workflow. He's been working with Lightroom from the beginning, providing feedback to Lightroom's public beta and monitoring the product's development. The book describes Lightroom's features in detail and with photographer's in mind.
Spyder makes it easy to keep in touch with your friends or fan-base by message or comment. Add as many friends as you want, Spyder allows you to send friend requests too. Spyder also helps you manage all your accounts, whether you have just a personal account or an additional band or business account you can easily switch between your different accounts.
