News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
While Apple's announcements of new iMacs, a remodeled MacBook, updated Mac minis, and a new multitouch mouse have dominated today's tech news, the company also quietly updated two of its wireless products.
Dan Frakes | Oct 21, 2009
Belkin on Thursday announced the upcoming TuneCast Auto Live, an FM transmitter for broadcasting your iPhone's audio through your car's stereo system.
Dan Frakes | Jun 5, 2009
Most dockable iPods—including the third- and fourth-generation (4G) iPod nano and full-size iPods as far back as the third generation—let you use a third-party microphone accessory to record audio. The quality of these recordings can be surprisingly good, but if you’ve got a 4G nano, you’re looking at spending a significant chunk of the price of the iPod itself—most iPod mics cost $70 and up —for a microphone that’s bulky and ill-fitting when used with a nano.
Dan Frakes | Jan 15, 2009
A complaint I hear from many Windows switchers—and even some longtime Mac users—is that the Dock shows only programs, not windows in those programs. If you count yourself among the dissatisfied, Dockland Software’s new $US10 Fantasktik 1.1 offers a solution.
Dan Frakes | Sep 18, 2008
When it comes to physical appearances, the iPod nano saw the biggest changes when Apple overhauled its iPod lineup this week. The new nano leaves behind the shorter, wider shape of the third-generation (3G) model to embrace the taller, slimmer profile of the nanos of old—even slimmer, in fact, than those older models. But along with its new shape, the fourth-generation (4G) iPod nano also incorporates new hardware features and new software.
Dan Frakes | Sep 11, 2008
If you need more text-editing goodness than OS X’s own TextEdit provides, but don’t want to splurge for Apple’s iWork or Microsoft’s Office 2008, consider Bean 1.3.3, an easy-to-use, fast, rich-text editor that adds a number of features absent from TextEdit.
Dan Frakes | Sep 11, 2008
Many Mac users have been patiently craving a visual makeover of the MacBook Pro line. After all, Apple’s professional laptops have looked much the same since the aluminium-exterior PowerBook G4 debuted back in January 2003.
Dan Frakes | Dec 5, 2007
There’s no getting around the fact: Apple’s iPod line — last updated a year ago — was in dire need of a refresh heading into this month’s update.
Dan Frakes | Oct 21, 2007
One of the niftiest features introduced when Apple rolled out its Intel-based laptops in 2006 was the MagSafe power connector — the magnetic ring surrounding four
small power nubs at the end of the notebook’s power cable. If you move the connector close to your laptop, the magnetic attraction will snap it into place. Even better, if you trip over your power cord, the MagSafe connector comes loose, saving your MacBook a trip into orbit.
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
