More don't-miss stories from Macworld – Page 202 (2024)

News

ColorMunki Create helps creative pros manage color

Pantone's ColorMunki Create is a color management system aimed at creative pros.

By Peter Cohen16 years ago

News

‘Warez’ software pirate sentenced to probation

U.S. federal authorities sentenced a prolific illegal trader of software to three years of probation last week.

By Jeremy Kirk16 years ago

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Google announces browser via comic book

Google announced Monday, via a 38-page comic book drawn by Scott McCloud, its new open-source browser project, Chrome.

By Jason Snell16 years ago

Mobile Mac

Mac MagSaver protects your MagSafe connector

The Mac MagSaver helps keep your MagSafe connector and its cable happy together.

By Dan Frakes16 years ago

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Psystar calls Apple a ‘monopoly’ in antitrust charges

Psystar says Apple is illegal tying the Mac OS X operating system with Apple hardware in a countersuit filed this week.

By Gregg Keizer16 years ago

News

Critics question Comcast broadband caps

Some critics question Comcast's bandwidth caps for residential subscribers.

By Grant Gross16 years ago

News

TinyBooks 6.0 accounting app released

Home and small business users have a new option for handling their accounting issues with the release of TinyBooks 6.0.

By Jim Dalrymple16 years ago

Mac OS X Hints

Ease the Safari-to-iTunes lyric pasting task

Use a simple AppleScript to make it simpler to copy lyrics from Safari (or any other browser) to iTunes.

By Rob Griffiths16 years ago

Editors’ Notes

Apple: Forget iCards, try Mail

Saddened by the departure of iCards from MobileMe? Apple suggests you try the Stationery feature in the OS X 10.5 version of Mail.

By Philip Michaels16 years ago

Mac 911

Ted Landau looks at a bug introduced in iTunes 7.7 that occurs when you insert a CD to import into iTunes.

By Ted Landau16 years ago

News

World Tech Update

In this weeku2019s show: we report from IFA in Berlin on thin televisions, Fujitsu Siemens shows off a new netbook, Toshiba has a DVD player with better upscaling, Garmin adds to its GPS line-up and LG puts Bluetooth inside a TV.

By Nick Barber16 years ago

Updated

Samsung aims at Apple with slim laptop

Samsung launched its X360 laptop at IFA that claims the title of the lightest 13.3-inch screen machine yet.

By Martyn Williams16 years ago

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Salling Media Sync transfers music to your phone

Non-iPhone users can now sync music with their Sony, Sony Ericsson and Nokia phones with Salling Media Sync.

By Jim Dalrymple16 years ago

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Google extends Apps Premier credit for Gmail outages

Google is extending a credit to Apps Premier customers due to three Gmail outages this month.

By Juan Carlos Perez16 years ago

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Apple whips rivals in consumer purchase plans

More American consumers plan to buy an Apple computer in the next 90 days than any other brand, a market research firm says.

By Gregg Keizer16 years ago

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Apple updates Final Cut Express, releases ProRes QuickTime Decoder

Apple released an update for Final Cut Express, fixing issues with AVCHD camcorders and a new decoder for QuickTime that allows users to play ProRes video.

By Jim Dalrymple16 years ago

News

Bare Bones releases BBEdit 9.0

BBEdit has been updated adding many new features including Text Completion, Projects and refined search capabilities.

By Jim Dalrymple and Jason Snell16 years ago

Mac OS X Hints

Permanently delete Mail messages

Learn a usefulu2014and potentially dangerousu2014method of permanently deleting messages in Mail.

By Rob Griffiths16 years ago

News

NetNewsWire beta gets updated

NewsGator updated NetNewsWire, improving performance and fixing a bug.

By Jim Dalrymple16 years ago

News

OmniPlan update allows Microsoft Project 2007 import

With an update released on Thursday, OmniPlan can now import Microsoft Project 2007 import. Other improvements to the software have also been made, fixing bugs and enhancing performance.

By Jim Dalrymple16 years ago

News

DataMind updates Jade plug-in for Aperture

DataMind updated its Jade plug-in for Aperture, allowing users to enhance images.

By Jim Dalrymple16 years ago

Editors’ Notes

Air out your bookmarks

Feeling bored by your usual stops on the Internet? Perhaps itu2019s time for some fresh inspiration. Senior Editor Kelly Turner proposes a bookmark exchange: weu2019ll share some of our favorite sites in exchange for yours.

By Kelly Turner16 years ago

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Olympic Gold Medalist gives props to Google Earth

Olympic cyclist and Gold Medalist Kristin Armstrong credited Googleu2019s mapping application for helping her find a training route that mirrored the Olympic course.

By Erik Larkin16 years ago

Mac 911

Bulk-add Mail addresses to Address Book

Need to quickly and easily pull email addresses from your Inbox into Address Book? MailCM will do the job in next to no time.

By Christopher Breen16 years ago

iOS Central

PCalc for iPhone updated, OS X update coming soon

PCalc has been updated for the iPhone adding multiple undo and redo. An update for the OS X version will come in the next month.

By Jim Dalrymple16 years ago

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Immersion to pay Microsoft $20 million to settle patent suit

A company that makes touch sensors for interacting with computer applications has agreed to pay Microsoft $20 million to settle a patent suit.

By Elizabeth Montalbano16 years ago

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WebAssist launches SiteAssist Professional

SiteAssist Professional is a new tool for Dreamweaver users to create Web sites quickly and easily.

By Jim Dalrymple16 years ago

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MacFamilyTree update includes improved chart editing

Genealogy application MacFamilyTree has been updated including fixes for PDF export and improved chart editing.

By Jim Dalrymple16 years ago

News

Mozilla extension would tap into typed commands

An experimental extension to Mozilla Firefox lets people substitute simple text commands for complex Web tasks.

By Stephen Lawson16 years ago

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JavaScript 2’s new direction

Standardization efforts for the next version of JavaScript have taken a sharp turn this month, with some key changes in the Web scripting technologyu2019s direction, InfoWorld reports.

By Paul Krill16 years ago

News

Mac clone maker sues Apple, plays antitrust card

Psystar, which was sued by Apple last month, filed a countersuit Tuesday, charging Apple with restraint of trade, unfair competition and other violations of antitrust law.

By Gregg Keizer16 years ago

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Panic updates Coda Web development application

Panic has updated Coda with some significant new features including Subversion.

By Jim Dalrymple16 years ago

News

Google rolls out tool that suggests search queries

Google plans to add a new feature to its search engine that suggests queries as letters and words are typed.

By Heather Havenstein16 years ago

Mac OS X Hints

Create a visual catalog of settings and error messages

Learn a simple way to keep track of various settings on your Mac, as well as those obscure error messages that may occasionally pop up.

By Rob Griffiths16 years ago

News

Sound Studio 3.5.7 released

Sound Studio has been updated fixing a bug that would not allow AppleScripts to open files.

By Jim Dalrymple16 years ago

From the Lab

Benchmarks: Western Digital Scorpio Black

Quiet, efficient, and only marginally hotter than your standard laptop hard drive, the Scorpio Black is an attractive drive for any high-performance seeking user.

By Chris Holt16 years ago

Mac Gems

Promising Prospect: FlexCal 1.0

FlexCal lets you create new iCal events and to-do tasks without having to launch iCal.

By Dan Frakes16 years ago

News

Livestation releases online TV Mac player

A new Mac player allows users to chat and watch free Internet TV.

By Jim Dalrymple16 years ago

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Adium update adds Facebook chat

Adium has been updated adding Facebook chat and an overhaul to the Contact Inspector.

By Jim Dalrymple16 years ago

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Gluon releases ProPack 8 for QuarkXPress

Gluon has updated its XTensions, making them compatible with QuarkXPress 8.

By Jim Dalrymple16 years ago

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Analysis: Intel developer forum introduces your next Mac

Intel provided 170-plus hours of technical instruction last week at its developer forum. Rik Myslewski sorts through it and pulls out the relevant news for Mac users about how the nuts and bolts that hold together the entire world of computing will influence future Apple hardware.

By Rik Myslewski16 years ago

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Mozilla boosts JavaScript performance

Mozilla this week is touting technology to boost performance of its JavaScript engine and Web applications.

By Paul Krill16 years ago

News

FaderWorks audio plug-in updated

A new version of FaderWorks has been released that fixes a bug the plug-in had with Pro Tools resetting shared data.

By Jim Dalrymple16 years ago

News

Sony Ericsson adds DRM free music to mobile content store

Sony is pushing DRM-free music as one of the attractions of its rebranded PlayNow Arena online store.

By Mikael Ricknäs16 years ago

News

Clone-maker Open Tech up for sale

Open Tech, makers of computers capable of running OS X, has announced it is for sale.

By Jonathan Seff16 years ago

News

Apple releases MacBook Air Update

Apple released an update for the MacBook Air that addresses video playback and processor core idling.

By Jim Dalrymple16 years ago

Mac 911

Sometimes when using the Connect to Server command, you might get an error message even when youu2019ve entered a correct server address. Hereu2019s the fix.

By Ted Landau16 years ago

News

USBVision, VideoGlide updated with Leopard fix

EchoFX has updated its digital video device software for PC-compatible devices.

By Peter Cohen16 years ago

Mac OS X Hints

Set up a basic workgroup file server the simple way

In many workgroup environments, thereu2019s no need to use a complicated method for setting up a file server. Kirk McElhearn offers a basic approach that should be sufficient for many users.

By Kirk McElhearn16 years ago

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New Nvidia software helps Photoshop run faster

Nvidia's new CUDA 2.0 programming tools are designed to help Photoshop run faster, among other things.

By Peter Cohen16 years ago