News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Google is extending its hosted e-mail archiving service to hold messages for up to a decade, the company said this week.
Jeremy Kirk | Oct 10, 2008
Mozilla will use a several-week delay it recently added to the Firefox 3.1 schedule to build a private browsing mode and beef up the browser’s address bar, the company said today.
Gregg Keizer | Oct 10, 2008
Apple is turning its attention to its notebook line of computers, as the company announced a special event being held in Cupertino on October 14 at 10:00 am (4am October 15 AEDT).
Jim Dalrymple | Oct 10, 2008
A popular free security tool for the Firefox browser has been upgraded to block one of the most dangerous and troubling security problems facing the Web today.
Jeremy Kirk | Oct 9, 2008
Google is testing a new feature on its Maps site that adds geo-tagged video from YouTube to maps in the same way that photos are currently added.
Martyn Williams | Oct 9, 2008
Orbicule on Wednesday announced the release of Undercover 2.5, an update to the theft recovery software for Mac OS X. Undercover 2.5 costs $US49; updates are free for registered users.
Peter Cohen | Oct 9, 2008
YouTube is now embedding “click-to-buy” links in videos to make it easier for people watching YouTube content to buy products that interest them.
Peter Cohen | Oct 9, 2008
Rainmaker Research has announced the release of Spell Catcher X 10.3, an update to the collection of writing improvement tools. It costs $US39.95 ($A60). Upgrades from previous releases are available.
Peter Cohen | Oct 9, 2008
EMC announced Tuesday that it is expanding its Mozy online backup service with a new option targeted primarily at small businesses. MozyPro for Mac will let companies that use Macs back up their information automatically and securely at a remote location.
Dan Moren | Oct 8, 2008
T-Mobile on Monday said preorders for the first Android phone have been three times greater than it expected and that it won't promise to ship any more phones in time for the Oct. 22 launch.
Nancy Gohring | Oct 8, 2008
If your Mac has multiple bootable disks—via either a partitioned internal disk or external FireWire drives—you’re probably very familiar with the Startup Disk System Preferences panel. The Startup Manager allows you to override the default boot disk and choose another to boot from for the current session—but doing this won’t change the default boot disk. What if you want to permanently start booting from the selected volume?
Rob Griffiths | Oct 8, 2008
The judge presiding over the antitrust lawsuit against Apple and AT&T denied the defendants' motion to dismiss the case. The lawsuit is seeking $US1.2 billion in damages because the iPhone is locked to AT&T’s wireless network.
Jim Dalrymple | Oct 8, 2008
Myvu has announced that its Crystal video goggles now work with the iPhone. The Crystal glasses require a new cable which costs $US24.95.
