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.
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
Myvu has announced that its Crystal video goggles now work with the iPhone. The Crystal glasses require a new cable which costs $US24.95.
