Tag: OS X

Dropbox has been around for so long and become so indispensable for so many people, that it's tough to remember that the spry little utility has been in beta all along. Not any longer -- the Dropbox team has announced that their baby has officially left the nursery, and version 1.0.10 is available for download right now. You may actually have to go to the site to get it -- Dropbox has never been ...

Office 2011 for Mac might be the best yet, but it's still one of those key products that constantly needs updates, fixes and patches. Microsoft let fly Office 2011 14.0.2 this week, featuring such highlights as improved reliability, improved stability, and a fix to the annoying bug that made you close Office AutoUpdate to be able to actually run the Office Update. If you have any applications ...

Apple has updated Aperture, its professional photo editing and management software, to version 3.1.1. This is an incremental update, so no earth-shattering surprises here, but if you're an Aperture user you'll be happy to find: Better reliability when upgrading Aperture libraries created with older versions Less buggy photo publishing to MobileMe, Facebook and Flickr Improved compatibility ...

There's no shortage of screenshot apps out there, but for many Mac users Skitch has been an indispensable tool since its release in 2007. The Skitch team must have been working overtime recently, because years of beta status have finally come to a close with the release of version 1.0 -- which follows the recent redesign of Skitch.com. Along with the newly redesigned interface and added features ...

As a quick follow-up article to the Adobe Flash 10.2 beta announcement, we thought we'd show you how to disable Google Chrome's built-in Flash plug-in so that you can use a pre-release build like the 10.2 beta. It's a quick and simple process, but please remember that once you've disabled Chrome's built-in Flash you won't get the benefit of Chrome's internal Flash updates. 1. Download the Flash ...

Mac Twitter junkies have been waiting quite a while for a replacement for the much-neglected Tweetie for Mac, and it may have just arrived. Weet for Mac has just entered Beta, and it lives up to the excellent iOS version of Weet, albeit with some kinks to work out. The general line on Weet (both the iOS version and the Mac beta) is that it's what Tweetie would have become if it hadn't been ...

Xmarks, the cross-platform multi-browser sync solution that was on the verge of shut down, has been saved from oblivion by a purchase by fellow browser add-on company, LastPass. For those who haven't heard of LastPass before, it's like the Xmarks of passwords, with secure password sync and storage across multiple platforms and browsers, which currently operates a freemium model, something ...

Adobe's pushing hard with hardware acceleration and for good reason: using the GPU takes a serious load off the CPU, which Flash is pretty hard on at the best of times, especially on Mac OS X. Adobe hopes to address those concerns with today's release of Flash 10.2 beta and the arrival of a new feature called Stage Video. The idea behind Stage Video is that it'll enable hardware acceleration ...

With Apple pulling AirPrint support just before the release of Mac OS 10.6.5, an opportunity has opened up for developers to one-up Apple with third-party tools that can share your printers over Wi-Fi for your iOS 4.2 devices. Our Apple-crazed brothers and sisters over at TUAW have put two offerings, Printopia and FingerPrint, through their paces. They found that both products essentially ...

Rainbow, Mozilla Lab's audio and video recording plug-in for Firefox 4, has just been updated to version 0.2. Recording to open formats, Rainbow now supports both audio and video recording on Windows, and audio recording on Linux, meaning it's not just Mac users that can get in on the action. The update also brings with it numerous bug fixes and the ability to specify custom recording resolutions, ...

The bods over at MacTech have been putting the Microsoft Business Unit's latest Mac offering, Office 2011, though its metaphorical paces, and have found that, on the whole, it's significantly faster than its previous siblings Office 2008 and 2004. App launches are around 70% faster from cold and 98% faster on relaunch, a noticeable and welcome improvement for the user. That's not all, common ...

Camino, the Mac-only cousin of Firefox, has just been updated to 2.0.6, bringing with it outdated Flash plug-in version checking. Given that many security vulnerabilities revolve around Flash player exploits these days, having the browser check for Flash updates and taking the burden off the user is probably a very good thing. The update also brings with it the latest 1.9.0 version of Mozilla ...

While you can enable AirPrint on OS X manually by copying files from one of the pre-release builds of 10.6.5, there's now an easier and faster way to do it -- AirPrint Hacktivator. A quick and easy way to activate AirPrint without having to hunt down, backup, and replace the three files required manually -- the simple tool requires just one click to 'Hacktivate' and importantly, 'De Hacktivate' ...

AirPrint, Apple's new printing service for iDevices, should be available now for anyone running the golden master of iOS 4.2 on their iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. Supposedly brought into OS X by the recent 10.6.5 pre-release builds, but pulled at the last-minute, AirPrint has been a bit problematic for some. Thankfully, developer Steven Troughton-Smith has come up with a guide to getting it to ...

Apple has released the latest version of its Snow Leopard operating system, Mac OS 10.6.5, which fixes a whole slew of little bugs and quirks, from improving Exchange support to fixing printer issues to syncing Address Book with Google Contacts. Snow Leopard users can get OS X 10.6.5 now by running Software Update. The complete release notes -- much more thorough than Apple's usual vague ...