News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Micro-blogging site Twitter is having a positive effect on the number of consumers using their mobile phone to access the web, says internet mobility company Novarra.
Carrie-Ann Skinner, PC Advisor | Nov 30, 2009
Thursday (US time) is Thanksgiving, the holiday season is upon us, and Black
Friday is coming, well, Friday (US time). And you know what that means: discounts.
Before you go out and brave the throngs of shoppers crowding the malls,
have a look at some Mac and
If you happen to own one of the new 27-inch iMacs, you may have heard that you can also use it as an external display for your other computers and devices (DVD players, for example). Although the process is as straightforward as connecting another computer to your iMac via its Mini DisplayPort port, the fact that Mac OS X keeps running in the background while it is in Target Display mode makes it just a trifle more complicated a setup than your average monitor.
Aayush Arya | Nov 26, 2009
Some Facebook users have been infected with a worm after clicking on an image of a scantily clad woman, which then redirects the victims to a pornography site, according to security researchers.
Jeremy Kirk | Nov 26, 2009
Shoppers, start your engines! Er, well, maybe not just yet.
Ramu Nagappan and David Braue | Nov 25, 2009
Microsoft has discussed paying News Corp. to remove its news Web sites from Google’s search results and list them on its Bing search engine instead, The Financial Times reported Sunday on its Web site.
Dan Nystedt | Nov 24, 2009
Another week, another worm hitting jailbroken iPhones. As with the previous exploits, which Rickrolled your phone’s wallpaper and stole your data, this nasty piece of work burrows its way into your jailbroken device if you haven’t changed the password for the iPhone’s root account—you have changed your root password, right? Right?
Dan Moren and David Braue | Nov 24, 2009
In a step to make YouTube videos more accessible to deaf people, as well as to anyone else searching for videos online, Google has launched an automatic video captioning service.
Jacqueline Emigh | Nov 23, 2009
iPhone owners charging Apple and AT&T with breaking antitrust laws asked a federal judge this week to force Apple to hand over the iPhone source code, court documents show.
Gregg Keizer | Nov 23, 2009
Twitter is now allowing its externally built applications to provide geolocation features to end users, after announcing its intention to do so in August.
Juan Carlos Perez | Nov 23, 2009
Remember last week, when the net was abuzz with the news that the Mac OS X 10.6.2 update broke notebooks with Atom processors? Well, given the first syllable of the word "hackintosh" it's little surprise that that state of affairs has changed. The release of a newly-hacked kernel claims to allow the Snow Leopard to roam freely off of the Apple steppes.
Jeff Porten | Nov 20, 2009
Google released its Chrome operating system to the open-source community on Thursday and said it has designed the netbook OS to be faster, simpler and more secure than existing ones.
Juan Carlos Perez | Nov 20, 2009
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.
