Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
We got the new Razr V3s last night. I have to say that, though it's clearly in a different class than the Blackberry, it's very Mac friendly. I was able to sync my Address Book and iCal to the phone via Bluetooth with no effort. That's something I could never ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
(Via MacNN.)
On February 19th, Apple released a nonspecific update regarding its Airport ecosystem and Time Machine ñ simply stating optimizations and driver fixes ñ but it is revealed to allow Time Capsule-like functionality with standard Airport Extreme Base Stations. According to Macworld, the update allows users to back up using ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
I've been working through a script to backup the Mini nightly to my 320 GB firewire drive. I've had some challenges, but it finally appears to be working as it should. I'll probably write it up and post here. In general, though, I think I've got all the backup needs ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
(Via The Mac Observer.)
TinyURL is really great because it shrinks long Web addresses down to a much smaller and more manageable size, but it usually takes several steps to get those compressed URLs. With a little help from AppleScript and TextExpander, however, you can cut that process down to just ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
(Via Rogue Amoeba.)
Radioshift hasn’t seen an update in a couple of months, but today we’re happy to unveil version 1.0.5. If you haven’t used Radioshift, it’s our tool for listening to and recording Internet radio. With its built-in guide, you can search over 50,000 radio listings, then listen or subscribe ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.)
TUAW reader Rowan Pope pointed us to this insane MacBook Air hacking post. How many USB ports does the Air support? Apple says just one; this post says up to 7. Apparently, the Air has a few extra live USB port connections built into that thar ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
(Via Macworld.)
While OS X has long included basic firewall software, Leopard introduced some significant changes to it, leaving many Leopard users confused as to how to keep their Macs secure. But though the firewall interface in Mac OS X 10.5 is indeed quite different from that in earlier versions of ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
(Via TidBits.)
I hate waiting for network tasks to complete, whether it's copying large files, saving a big Word document, or watching a backup take forever. The real problem is that being forced to watch a progress bar often causes me to jump off to another task, which in turn makes ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
(Via MacWorld UK.)
The Mac developers at OpenOffice have released a third pre-beta build of the softwareWork on porting OpenOffice to the Mac as a true native application continues to gather pace.
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
(Via Mac Tech News.)
Apple Releases Safari 3.1
The World's Fastest Browser Now on Mac and Windows
CUPERTINO, California--March 18, 2008--Apple today introduced Safari 3.1,
the world's fastest web browser for Mac and Windows PCs. Safari loads [...]
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