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The new version also adds the following new features and fixes:* Add many powerful widgets to your web pages.* Personalize iWeb page titles by adding a prefix of you choice.* Add a favicon to your iWeb HTML pages.* Fool spam bots by encoding all email address in your iWeb pages, so that the email couldn’t…

eBlaster records emails sent and received, chats and instant messages, all keystrokes, web sites visited, applications opened, and other user activity. Via a web browser, parents and employers can remotely access and change the software’s settings. It operates in stealth mode, concealing itself from the dock, desktop, applications folder, force quit menu, and menu bar.…

For most casual Macintosh users, the concept of workflow on the Mac OS X desktop isn’t an issue. However, for professionals who use a lot of applications at once, display real estate and workflow start to become an issue. That’s because, based on the typical application size, the acuity of the human eye, the Mac’s…

Below is a sample spreadsheet like the one described above. It’s a mythical list of school kids in acting class kept by a teacher, not likely to get much larger. The goal is to print it on one sheet of paper. (Note: For clarity, this screen shot doesn’t show the default, empty columns further to…

However, I really dislike that Tabs have been moved to the top of the window. For starters, whenever a Safari window is in the background and I want to make it the active window, I most often seek to click the top of the window (which may be the only part that is visible if…

Energy Saver then (left), and now (right)Sure, the Preference Pane icon change could simply be cosmetic, but it could also be a subtle message about the company’s stance on environmental issues — and it appears only on Apple’s glossy display laptops.Compact florescent lights are seen by many as an environmentally better alternative to traditional incandescent…

Activities are easily accessible through dynamic activity groups which automatically categorize by activity type, location, route, date, distance and workout duration.The new version of the program boasts the following features and changes:Activity collection with instant track previewActivity calendar and listInteractive maps and charts with instant statisticsIntelligent adaptive filteringActivity comparisonUses GPS data as well as heart…

The update is available via Apple’s Software Update application and requires Mac OS X 10.5.6. 

Start by picking the Faces pic you want to change… To chance someone’s Faces key photo, do this: Click Faces in iPhoto ’09’s Library column to display the Faces view. Now Double-click on a face to display all of the images associated with that person….then choose a different pic…Control-click on the photo you want to…

Server Assistant Server Preferences and Server Status widget Server Admin Server Monitor Workgroup Manager System Image Utility Xgrid Admin QuickTime Broadcaster In the patch notes online, Apple specified the following changes were in the update: System Image Utility When deploying a system image created from a volume, the target computers will no longer have identical…

Both copyrights are dated October 26th, 2007. Psystar is a vendor of unauthorized Mac clones that run Mac OS X “Leopard” 10.5 through a third party firmware hack. Apple has sued the company for copyright infringement and for violating the End User Agreement License for Mac OS X. More recently, Apple added a claim that…

One of the philosophies of Mac OS X is that too much choice overwhelms and frustrates the user and diminishes the user experience. As a result, many of the configuration options available are just not surfaced in System Preferences. Cocktail puts a GUI on many of those options to provide more control over Mac OS…

The Mac OS X print dialog includes a Priority option that’s neatly tucked away in an unassuming pop-up menu. You can use this option to tell the other Macs on your network that your print job is more or less important than other print jobs. Here’s how: Choose File > Print to open the Print…

A recent patent filing from Apple Inc may offer a glimpse into the company’s future plans for Mac OS X, including a three-dimensional Desktop. The revamped interface design could allow for stacked items and offer ways to essentially grab objects that are covered by other icons, and to group objects closer to you or farther…

This holiday season, many people will be delving into HDTV for the first time — perhaps on a tight budget. With Black Friday just around the corner, and some amazing deals likely to be offered, the newbie buyer needs a lot of help wading through the new HDTV technology. At the iPod Observer, John Martellaro…

Mr. Hubbard was at the Large Installation System Administration, or LISA, Conference to talk about the Mac OS X path from servers to embedded platforms. During that talk, he discussed the release cycle for Mac OS X, and specifically mentioned the pending first quarter launch for Mac OS X 10.6. Snow Leopard wonit add as…

Billings 3 from Marketcircle, Inc. is designed to track projects for clients, account for time spent, invoice clients and track payments. Itis perfect for small businesses, freelance writers and Web developers, for example, and it exploits good Cocoa development principles. One of the key advantages is its ability to present a professional look to the…

Migration Assistant 1.0.6 is now the latest version for Mac OS X 10.4.11 users, and Migration Assistant 1.2.3 is the current version for Mac OS X 10.5.5 users. The updates are available via the Software Update application, or as downloadable installers at the Apple Support Web site.

Firefox continued its upward trend as well, moving from 19.22 percent of the browser market in July up to 19.75 percent in August. Safari and Firefox have been on an upward swing for months as interest in both browsers continues to grow. In comparison, Internet Explorer has been losing market share to both for well…

Late on Thursday, Psystar filed its official response to Apple in a 54 page document with the U.S. Northern District of California. In it, Psystar claims that Apple is abusing its copyrights in order to establish an anticompetitive tying of Mac OS X to Apple hardware and that that tying creates an illegal monopoly. Earlier…