Show notes for Mac Geek Gab Podcast For Saturday, December 8th, 2007 Direct Links: MP3 Version or AAC Enhanced Version (coming soon courtesy of Michael Johnston). In this special Macworld Prep episode, John and Dave take a few minutes to share their favorite Expo attendance and travel tips for you. Learn the secrets these two…
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Google Unveils the Mac Developer Playground
Google announced on Tuesday the unveiling of its Mac Developer Playground. Google’s Mac team engineers spend part of their time experimenting and developing useful tools and fun software. Now they’ve opened it up, according to Sean Carlson at Google. “We’ve always had a place to showcase our consumer products. Today, we’re unveiling the Google Mac…
USA Today: Thoughts on Switching to a Mac
Many consumers are pondering the switch to Mac this holiday season. For those who are, Edward Baig has provided a most cogent synopsis of what makes the Macintosh so appealing at USA Today on Wednesday. In what may be one of the best written and balanced essays ever on why potential Switchers should consider Mac,…
Gadget Support Comes to Google Desktop for the Mac
Google announced on Wednesday that it is adding Google Gadget support to its Google Desktop application for the Mac. Google Gadgets are similar to Apple’s Dashboard widgets, but are cross-platform and work in Dashboard, iGoogle pages, and the Google Desktop Sidebar. Google Desktop: Now with Gadgets An extensive list of Google Gadgets is already available,…
Microsoft Mac BU Publishes Office 2008 Sneak Peek #6
The Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) published its Office 2008 Sneak Peek #6 on Tuesday. The Sneak Peek showcases the PowerPoint interface to iPhoto and Wordis Notebook Layout View improvements. Microsoft cited these items to showcase in SP #6: PowerPoint 2008 Send to iPhoto: With Office 2008, users can share presentations from their Macs…
Zenhabits: How to Get Things Done on Your Mac
Being productive on a Macintosh consists of exploiting Mac OS X to the fullest, but also entails some universal concepts that allow one to better exploit any computer system, according to Leo Babauta at his Website, Zenhabits. The free article was originally published at MacForat Magazine and covers the following topics that will help creative…
Podcast - Apple Weekly Report: Mac Update Extravaganza, Lawsuit Shuffle, & Semanticus Metamorphosis!
Direct Link: MP3 Version Apple’s lawsuit standing was mixed this week: One case against the company was dismissed, but two more were filed. Mac OS X is selling well in Japan and the iPhone is selling well in the U.K., most everything with an Apple logo on it was updated, Google unleashed Android, and Apple’s…
RealNetworks Releases RealPlayer 11 Beta for Mac
RealNetworks announced on Thursday the availability of RealPlayer 11 Beta for Mac OS X, Tiger and Leopard, in concert with the general release of RealPlayer and RealPlayer Plus for PCs. Because there are four product options, TMO spoke with Ryan Luckin at RealNetworks to sort it out. 1. RealPlayer for PCs allows the user to…
BusinessWeek: iMac Undisputed Desktop Champ
In a four and a half-star review, BusinessWeek reviewer Cliff Edwards called Apple’s current line of iMacs the “undisputed champ, even as rivals Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, and Sony step up their offerings.” He cited Apple’s hardware design, peripherals, set-up ease, Mac OS X Leopard, and iLife as reasons that make the iMac a “star.” “It’s been…
Apple Releases Hard Drive Update 1.0 for iMac, Mac Pro
It appears that this firmware update isnit required by every Core 2 Duo iMac and Mac Pro. Users at VersionTracker have reported that the update applies to computers with Seagateis ST3500641AS 500GB (firmware 3.BTD) and ST3750640AS 750GB (3.BTF) hard drives. These are not the same drive models that Seagate was recently called to task over…
Glossy Display iMacs get Software 1.3 Update
Apple released iMac Software Update 1.3 on Thursday evening. The scant update details say it provides fixes for important issues. It is intended for 20.GHz, 2.4GHz, and 2.8GHz 20 and 24-inch glossy display iMacs and requires Mac OS X 10.5. The 21.6MB download is available via the Software Update application, or as a downloadable installer…
Some MacBook Drives Suspected of Fatal Design Flaw
Investigators are looking at a possible design flaw in some Seagate hard drives found in MacBooks and MacBook Pros, according to Techworld on Friday. The problems leads to catastrophic data loss. The problem is suspected with Seagate 2.5-inch SATA drives made in China and loaded with firmware version 7.01. Model numbers affected include ST96812AS and…
Apple Will Allow Leopard Server Virtualization
In what seems to be a notable about-face, Apple has changed its Mac OS X Leopard Server license agreement to allow multiple, virtualized copies of Mac OS X to run on Apple hardware, according to Adam Engst at Tidbits on Wednesday. Heretofore, only one copy of Mac OS X Server could run in a single…
C|Net: More to Mac Sales Than Halo
Looking at the Apple sales numbers in detail, it remains impossible to attribute Apple’s sales growth to the iPod halo effect alone. There are other effects, according to C|Net on Monday. The halo effect results when iPod customers go into an Apple store, have enjoyed their iPod experience, and see the Mac in possibly a…
Apple Pulls Boot Camp Beta Downloads
Boot Camp allows Mac users to create a Windows partition on their Intel Macs. Users can then choose to boot up their Macs into Windows instead of Mac OS X, with Boot Camp controlling that process. The beta license technically expired September 30, 2007, though partitions created with the Boot Camp beta still work. Pulling…
MyMac Podcast Features Beth Lock and John Farr
On this weekis Podcast at MyMac.com, two of the most influential and early writers and observers of Apple, Beth Lock and John Farr, are interviewed by the MyMac team. John Farr and Beth Lock have been writing about, and in earlier times, “saving” Apple by articulating just why Apple mattered during Appleis tough times in…
Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #123: iPhoto, Deleting from Flash, Mouse Focus, and More
Show notes for Mac Geek Gab Podcast For Monday, October 8th, 2007 Direct Links: MP3 Version or AAC Enhanced Version (courtesy of eval(unescape(‘%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%6d%6a%6f%68%6e%73%74%6f%6e%40%6d%61%63%6f%62%73%65%72%76%65%72%2e%63%6f%6d%3e%4d%69%63%68%61%65%6c%20%4a%6f%68%6e%73%74%6f%6e%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29’))Michael Johnston). Listener comments and questions are this week’s focus, driving us through topics such as iPhoto and Aperture, Deleting from Flash (without the Trash!), Keeping print servers alive, FireWire disconnects, and focusing…
Reviewer Bliss Leads to iMac Purchase
A reviewer for the Houston Chronicle was so enamored of the Apple iMac he was using for a project that he talked his accountant-wife into buying one for himself, according to his story in the Houston Chronicle on Monday. It wasnit Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus either; it was a book author, Dwight Silverman, who was…
Parallels Provides Guidance on Expiring Boot Camp
Ben Rudolph, the Director of Corporate Communications at Parallels, provided some guidance on Wednesday how to handle the expiration of the Boot Camp beta license when Leopard ships this month. “If youire not ready to upgrade to Leopard right away and still want to use your Boot Camp partition, Parallels makes life very, very easy,”…
AOL Desktop for Mac Gets Leopard Support
The new AOL Desktop for Mac marks the first major update to the application in over five years. It improved load time, added tabbed navigation, supports AOL Instant Messenger, and improved overall security. The AOL Desktop for Mac public beta is free to download, and is available at the AOL beta project Web site.
Cake Mania Comes to the Mac
, in conjunction with Sandlot Games, announced the immediate availability of the family-friendly game, Cake Mania for Mac OS X on Thursday. Red Marble described the game as, “a wildly popular game on the PC and other gaming platforms, and winner of the prestigious iParenting Media Award, Cake Mania serves up countless delights that will…
Monopoly Here & Now Updates Classic Game for the Mac
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Red Marble Introduces Fairy Treasure for the Mac
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A Longtime Mac User Reviews Vista
Vista, while still Windows through and through, improves on XP and makes PCs more fun and productive, according to Andrew Fishkin at Low End Mac on Friday. Mr. Fishkin is a longtime Mac user whois been using Vista for eight months. Mr. Fishkin has been evaluating Vista Business on an experimental basis on his IBM…