News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Some Macintosh users have encountered a security program whose function and web site have the tell-tale signs of a scam. Visitors to the website selling the program, called MacSweeper, are offered a free security scan of their computers. The scan, which only works on Macs,highlights supposed security problems with the computers. It offers to remove the problems with the purchase of a $US39.99 lifetime subscription.
AMW | Jan 22, 2008
Everyone writes. Whether you draft reports, make grocery lists, or author scholarly works, the tool you use for text may be the most important program on your Mac.
The Palm platform, having been around for over ten years, is supported by tens of thousands of third party apps. However many of these were written many years ago and may not work well on newer devices. If the developer's web site only has black and white screen grabs then it's a sure bet that the apps haven't been updated for Palm OS 5, the version that's been around for the last three years or so.
AMW | Dec 10, 2007
Aside from his highly successful solo career and history as half of Itch-E and Scratch-E (aka Boo Boo and Mace!), Paul Mac is also part of The Dissociatives with Daniel Johns, regular keyboard player for Silverchair and in-demand composer for film and TV. Paul is a self-proclaimed “moron” on technical specs, more concerned with using his MacBook Pro to create music — lots of it.
AMW | Dec 10, 2007
AMW: What’s your take on how Tropfest has developed?
JP: If you could get in a time machine and go back to ’93 when it started, most people had never heard of short films. Short films were something that film students made. I knew about them because being an actor and aspiring filmmaker it was definitely part of my reality. But even then short films were, in my opinion, often pretty high brow — sometimes pretentious, sometimes basically unfathomable.
The European Commission has accused Intel of abusing its dominant position in the microprocessor market to exclude its rival Advanced Micro Devices, in breach of European antitrust rules.
AMW | Oct 21, 2007
Steve Wozniak isn’t perhaps as well known as his fellow Apple cofounder, Steve Jobs, but “Woz” invented the Apple I in 1976 and, in 1977, the Apple II, which was one of the best-selling PCs of that time. In this interview with Peter Moon, the 57-year-old Woz talks about how he met Jobs, his most cherished inventions, and more.
AMW | Oct 21, 2007
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.
