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Posted on September 6, 2005 at 5:40 pm
What about a nice cup of Mac-Tea? Cuppa is a free software that allows you time exactly for your best tea!
You can customize most aspects in order to get a hot, tasty cup of your favourite tea.
Click get here the free software and feel part of the British Empire!
Posted on September 2, 2005 at 4:22 pm
Apple Online Store has retired the offer to test-drive Mac minis we reported yesterday…
Speculation may arise… any comment?
Read here the article…
Posted on September 1, 2005 at 11:48 am
An Open Source Project that aims at the PowerBooks touchpad and behaviour.
As the Sourceforge.net team says what is it:
A project to implement an open source driver for Apple powerbooks. The project was started as an alternative to SideTrack (which isn’t free) and an improvement upon iScroll2. It acheives its advanced features by running the trackpad in what is called `absolute’ mode. This means that the driver can tell exactly what part of the pad your finger is touching. The Apple driver (and iScroll2) both run the pad in `relative’ mode, and while that facilitates a simpler driver because the pad does most of the work, it is very limiting of what you can do.
Read carefully if your Powerbook is supported, though.
Check here for more details and download.
Posted on August 31, 2005 at 5:18 pm
Need a Mac mini for a few weeks, or just want to give Apple’s smallest desktop computer a try?
Apple is now offering a Mac mini test-drive program via its online store, allowing prospective customers to purchase a mini and then return it for a full refund within thirty days if they don’t like it.
Apple isn’t charging a restocking fee, though you still have t:o pay for shipping if you send back the mini, and the offer only applies to stock minis, not custom jobs (Apple’s standard refund policy allows 14-day returns and adds a 10% restocking fee).
Read here here the full article
Posted on August 31, 2005 at 4:28 pm
A pretty in-depth Q&A with Bruce Chizen, Adobe CEO, on Macromedia acquisition by Adobe, the near future, some life-cycle for Photoshop running under Mac OS X – Intel-based.
Read the full article on News.com here and check the full interview here.
Posted on August 24, 2005 at 8:27 pm
Google has announced Google Talk, a new service that will allow existing Gmail accounts use its Instant Messaging AND Voice Calling service, for free!
Google site says that its released client is for Windows 2000/XP users, but Linux and Mac OS X users may be in business too.
How? Just using one of the many Jabber-compatible IM client.
We tried two of them, one that is listed on the Google Mac page, namely iChat, that comes for free with Mac OS X, and you may already know; the other is Fire, a multi-IM client that is pretty good with ICQ, MSN, Yahoo IM AND, from now, with Google Talk.
– iChat configuration is fully described on Google’s page,
– Fire configuration it’s even simpler.
In both cases, remember to set the server as talk.google.com and port 5223.
Now I’m stuck in a dilemma:
– I’m a long time Skype user (both on Windows AND Mac OS X),
– I’m a long time GMail user,
– I’m a long time Fire user (by far the best under Mac OS X),
– I’m a satisfied user for all of the above…
What am I going to do?
Right now, I’m going to test Google Talk for a while, and time (and bugs) will tell…
For your reference:
– Google Talk: http://www.google.com/talk/
– Google Talk Mac OS X reference: http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html
– Google Talk iChat setup and configuration guide: http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=24076
– Mac OS X Fire: http://fire.sourceforge.net/
Posted on August 20, 2005 at 7:59 pm
Apple releases (again…) a major Security update for Mac OS X 10.4.2, just as reported here on MacSwitching.com, Apple released a security update a few days ago.
Now, you should update the update!
Yes, read here more details about the Security update v. 1.1, which is strongly recommended to all users who have applied the previous patch…
Posted on August 16, 2005 at 11:11 pm
On Aug. 15th, Apple released a major Security Update, 2005-007, affecting all latest Mac OS X versions: 10.3.9, both Server and Client, and Tiger 10.4.2, again both Server and Client.
Some early analysis reports that only few corrected flaws are critical and most should not affect most users.
Check here Apple Downloads and here the detailed information on this update.
Read here an article from News.com
Posted on July 28, 2005 at 12:05 pm
In fact you can run all Widgets not only (as before) under Safari, but fully stand-alone on the desktop and enjoy the same behaviour of the Tiger Mac OS X 10.4.
Click here here to go Amnesty web site!
Other reviews on this site
Posted on July 27, 2005 at 11:15 am
Ok, you’ve been using Mac OS X Tiger for a while, maybe you’ve been writing Dashboard widgets for a while or, at least, you’ve been playing with that code…
Some widgets, you may have realized, simply output HTML + CSS stuff just like any other web page, but many other are starting heavy use of low-level functions, command-line instruction and full access to local resources.
Is that correct? Are we facing some trojan-horse widget-related threat?
Read thouroghly this article, and more will follow.
Read here the full story!
