News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
An ongoing topic of discussion for Mac users is the ever-increasing size of updates, both for the Mac OS itself and for third party applications like Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite. There are a few snares for the unwary directly related to updates' sizes, however, which are worth considering to make updates as painless an experience as possible.An ongoing topic of discussion for Mac users is the ever-increasing size of updates, both for the Mac OS itself and for third party applications like Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite. There are a few snares for the unwary directly rel...
An ongoing topic of discussion for Mac users is the ever-increasing size of updates, both for the Mac OS itself and for third party applications like Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite. There are a few snares for the unwary directly related to updates' sizes, however, which are worth considering to make updates as painless an experience as possible.
Sean McNamara | Aug 14, 2008
Apple was stingy with details about Snow Leopard when it briefly previewed the next version of OS X at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Based on the company’s public statements about the OS X update, we know that Snow Leopard features some new technology that promises to utilise more thoroughly the potential processing capability of the powerful graphics processors included with many Macs. Apple is promoting the technology, OpenCL, as a new open standard for graphics.
Peter Cohen | Aug 7, 2008
On July 31, 2008, Apple released an overdue patch for a major vulnerability in the way Mac OS X Server handles turning the names in web sites and e-mail addresses into the numeric addresses used for connections. The vulnerability is a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name Service (DNS) protocol and affected all but a handful of DNS servers built into operating systems and released as stand-alone server software packages.
Glenn Fleishman and Rich Mogull | Aug 5, 2008
Here’s a simple tip for those of you who like to use Photo Booth's distortion effects (those on the second page of the four pages of effects) on your photos. When you choose one of these effects, say Twirl, you’ll see a slider appear over your photo, which lets you change the size of the effect. But did you know you can also move the origin of the effect?
Rob Griffiths | Aug 1, 2008
As you probably know, Safari allows you to rearrange the entries on your bookmarks bar via a simple drag-and-drop. You can move both individual bookmarks as well as bookmark folders using this method, and it works great. But what if you’d like to move a bookmark (or bookmark folder) on your bookmarks bar into a folder on your bookmarks bar? You could use the Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks menu, of course, but there’s a simpler solution.
Rob Griffiths | Jul 30, 2008
For both incoming and outgoing mail we need to know the mail server, whether the connection is established via Secure Sockets Layer (SSL, a form of connection encryption) and the port the connection is established over. For incoming mail, you'll always need the type of account (POP or IMAP) and the username and password (and occasionally the authentication method) — for outgoing mail, you need to know whether you need to authenticate with a username and password. There are numerous combinations of the options I've just listed, which can make troubleshooting a problem seem even more daunting.
Sean McNamara | Jul 17, 2008
Australian free-to-air television guide IceTV is now available via the iTunes App Store for people to install on their iPhones. Usage of the free app requires registration with the IceTV service, which is free and provides a one-day TV listing. Paid subscribers to the IceTV service get a seven-day listing. Other features available to subscribers are the ability to record programs remotely using EyeTV, a personalised TV guide and recommendations based on shows you've previously recorded.
