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InDesign users have been complaining about an issue where the application crashes when ever dialog windows appear, and considering how many actions trigger dialog windows, it left many unhappy designers unable to do their job. The problem affects InDesign users with a MacBook Pro with Retina Display or MacBook Air with USB 3.0 support, that…

Both companies said Apple was the third largest PC company in the U.S. Chart by The Mac Observer from Gartner Data In addition to the differing share and unit sales figures from the two research companies, they also differed with their relative performance numbers for Apple. IDC said that Apple’s Mac unit sales declined from…

Adobe working on InDesign crash fix for MacBook Pro, Air usersAdobe InDesign forum members noticed the problem on the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models Apple released in June after installing MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) Software Update 1.0. Without the update installed, InDesign users aren’t experiencing the crashing issue.The update, according to Apple’s release notes,…

EPEAT is an environmental organization that certifies products based on their recyclability, among other criteria. Apple was one of the founding companies that established those criteria in 2006, and EPEAT certification is now required for purchases by some institutions, including cities like San Francisco. The news that Apple had pulled its Mac products from EPEAT…

_______________________ Bodega is an app store, itself an app, that has been easy to overlook amidst all the recent fuss about sandboxing and the Mac App Store (MAS). For example, apps that provide services that expire, install code or resources in shared locations, require license keys, or request an escalation to root privileges will all…

Display Preferences for the MacBook Pro with Retina Display The name of the FAQ is called “MacBook Pro: Frequently asked questions about using a Retina display.” Other questions include how to deal with apps that want to take over the screen and supply their own resolution, how to handle external displays, and an explanation of…

iLuv Creative Technology now has a line of products featuring the Peanuts cartoon characters. This review looks at the MacBook 15-inch, Snoopy Sleeve. It’s a soft case with a deep pocket for your accessories. It’ll also hold an iPad nicely, even with many of the more slender iPad cases already attached. But not a pumpkin.…

MacBook Pro (mid 2012)Apple’s sparse patch notes say simply, “The update includes fixes that improve graphics stability, external display support, and USB 3 device support.” For those who already have one of the new laptops, the update should show up in Software Update. You can also download it directly from Apple’s Downloads site as a…

The image, which appears to be from the product box of the unreleased MacBook Pro, was supposedly provided to the poster by a “friend inside Apple.” The layout matches the design and style of Apple’s on-box technical specifications, but could also easily have been fabricated. Another difference between the claimed 2012 iteration of the 13-inch…

The Cloud Drive service include 5GB of storage for free, music backup support for Amazon MP3 purchases, and offers paid upgrades for additional storage.Amazon gives Mac users a Cloud Drive appMac and Windows users have been limited, until now, to accessing their Cloud Drive content through a Web browser. With today’s app release, however, Mac…

SkyDrive formerly stood out by offering users 25GB of storage for free, but with Microsoft expanding its service with support for Windows and Lion, as well as recently released mobile apps, the company decided to limit free accounts to 7GB. Existing SkyDrive users may keep their 25GB plan by opting-in, and any existing user with…

While the number of infected Macs dropped off quickly after Apple released its Java updates to address the security issue, the rate of decline seems to have stabilized just over 100,000.Flashback-infected Macs declining, according to Symantec“We had originally believed that we would have seen a greater decline in infections at this point in time, but…

Apple is developing a tool to detect and remove the Flashback malware, the company announced via its support page today (via The Loop). The Flashback malware, a trojan horse, struck Mac OS X systems in force late February, taking advantage of a vulnerability in the version of Java that comes embedded in OS X. The…

Select the two or more images in iPhoto. Your selections will be highlighted in yellow. Next, press the Edit button on the bottom right of the iPhoto window. This will launch iPhoto’s familiar Edit screen, but instead of displaying a single photo, both photos you chose earlier will be displayed side-by-side.The photos you chose in…

The Flashback Trojan originally tried to trick users into giving up their account login by posing as a Flash installer where it would then disable OS X’s built-in malware definition updater, opening the victim’s Mac to more potential attacks. A later version attempted to exploit a security flaw in older versions of Java to auto-install…

The update, the first since May 2011, is expected to bring Intel’s Ivy Bridge chipset to Cupertino’s all-in-one desktop. The 22nm-based Core i5 and i7 Ivy Bridge platform should provide a 5 to 15 percent bump in processing power and significantly increased graphics performance via the integrated Intel HD GPU. As most iMacs include discrete…

As reported by DigiTimes and discussed by MacRumors, G-Tech is ramping up production of its cover glass products by over 66 percent this year to provide support for iPad manufacturing, with industry estimates expecting the Taiwanese company to provide 25 to 30 percent of the total glass for iPads in 2012.If true, this may mark…

As of Tuesday morning, only portions of the Apple site have been updated, notably the homepage and dedicated iPad page, although it appears to be a steady work-in-progress with more graphics being replaced daily.  Apple appears to be distinguishing the high resolution versions of its images with a “2x” tag, allowing curious users to locate…

Quicken for Mac 2007 was originally written for PowerPC machines and had been running on Intel-based Macs using Rosetta technology. Lion dropped support for Rosetta, so Quicken for Mac customers couldn’t upgrade if they wanted to continue to use the software. Today’s patch now allows  for the software to run under Lion, without Rosetta support. Existing Quicken for Mac…

Murasaki 1.6.1 for OS X is an EPUB 2/3 ebook reader for the Macintosh. It’s scroll-based rather than paginated and can only view ebooks in non-DRM’d EPUB format. It has some nice features, but the user interface is awkward in some areas. Murasaki, in English. means the color purple. Moreover, according to the developers, “…the…

Apple’s patch notes: About MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.7 (4.24MB Download) This update fixes several issues to improve the stability of MacBook Pro (Early 2011) and MacBook Pro (Late 2011) computers and is recommended for all users. This update improves the reliability of booting from the network, addresses an issue that can prevent HDCP…

AppleInsider found the filing and described its contents. Apple details the various keyboard types in use today and then describes two new methods it has patented, both of which use a single support lever.One method proposes using glass, wood, stone, or even “polished meteorite” for key caps held in place by a support lever that…

BookReader 3.8 for OS X is a mature, full-featured ebook reader for the Macintosh. It has an iBooks-like bookshelf with good sorting and searching options, and it can read documents in many standard formats, including .epub, .doc, .ibooks and many more. This app looks so much like iBooks that some customers, in the past, thought…