News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
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Apple has released an 876KB firmware update for the keyboards of its MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops. MacBook, MacBook Pro Keyboard Firmware Update 1.0 fixes a bug where the laptop may ignore your first key press if the machine has been sitting idle. Release notes for the firmware update say it addresses other, unspecified issues and list the MacBook and MacBook Pro models supported by the update.
The firmware update, downloadable from Apple’s web site, requires OS X 10.5.2 or later.
Once you've downloaded it, please report back on our forums (link below) and let us know if it has, indeed, cleared up the bug for you.
wrote on March 4, 2008 12:05 PM
I found my Leopard is booting up much slower after the recent updates.
If you're new to Macs, it can be a bit daunting as you begin the exploration of your new OS. There are some great resources out there for getting used to the Mac and for when things go wrong — or when you just want to do some cool stuff. While I can't hope to detail every single useful Mac web site "out there", I did want to cover some of the most useful sites I visit pretty well every day as a Mac user and troubleshooter. If you have a favourite not mentioned here, tell us about it in the forums.
Sean McNamara | Mar 27, 2008
When it comes to customising your desktop, OS X seemingly provides anything you could want — there are a number of Apple-provided images, there are connections to your user’s Pictures folder and iPhoto library, or you can use any of ten supplied solid colours for your desktop background. But if you’re a fan of solid colours, you may not agree with the ten that Apple has provided. Or, you may have a corporate "identity" colour that you want to deploy throughout your office. Thankfully, there are two relatively easy ways to get additional colour choices.
Rob Griffiths | May 9, 2008
There are lots of ways to find words and phrases within text files on your Mac. You can use Spotlight, of course, or open those files with a text editor such as TextEdit, BareBones’ TextWrangler, or any of the other hundreds of text editors out there. If you’re Terminally-inclined, you can open and search text files in vi, nano, or emacs. But here’s an alternative you may have never considered: Safari. In particular, Safari 3.0 or later.
Rob Griffiths | May 16, 2008
Here’s a simple trick you can use in OS X 10.5’s Open dialog box. Say you’ve decided to open a saved file in a given application. You press Command-O (or select File -> Open if you’re menu-inclined) and the standard file open dialog appears. You then navigate to your desired file, which is buried a few levels deep in your user’s folder. Once you’ve found the file, though, you realize you want do make a copy of it first — just in case something goes wrong with your planned edit.
Rob Griffiths | May 28, 2008
App Store developers will now be able to reach customers in 13 new countries, according to an announcement on the iPhone Developer Program news page.
