News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
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.
Myvu has announced that its Crystal video goggles now work with the iPhone. The Crystal glasses require a new cable which costs $US24.95.
