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Qualifying customers are those who buy a (qualifying) new or refurbished Mac (see the list for details) on or after June 8th, 2009, the day that Apple announced Snow Leopard’s shipping time frame of September, 2009. These customers can upgrade to Snow Leopard, or Mac OS X 10.6, for $9.95. This protection extends to customers…

Safari 4 includes HTML 5 support, complies with CSS, JavaScript, XML and SVG standards, offers a Cover Flow view for browsing bookmarks, a faster JavaScript engine that’s almost eight times faster than Internet Explorer 8, and will protect users from application crashes related to plug-in problems when running under Mac OS X 10.6.Safari 4 is…

The Take Control ebook series specializes in explaining, and explaining well, various technical subjects. In this book, Steve Sande describes in careful, clear writing how to utilize Apple’s iWeb ’09 to build and maintain a good looking Web site. That’s a more difficult task than one would expect, and Mr. Sande does a beautiful job.…

In a blog post, the company wrote Thursday, “if you rely on VMware Fusion’s 3D Acceleration feature to run either Windows games or other Windows 3D applications in your virtual machines, we recommend that you do not upgrade your Mac to 10.5.7.” The company said the update breaks the 3D acceleration feature used in Fusion.…

Start by making a folder to hold your iTunes media library once it’s moved. Be sure to name the folder something descriptive so you know that’s where your music, movies and TV shows are stored. Launch iTunes and select iTunes > Preferences Click the Advanced button. Be sure Keep iTunes Music folder organized is checked.Check…

Server Admin Tools 10.5.6v1.1 is free and available for download at the Apple Support Web site.

From the patch notes: Improved compatibility with pre-release versions of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). SpamSieve is better able to recover from corpus files that were damaged due to disk errors. Improved the Entourage installer’s error handling. Improved the error reporting when saving the corpus. Improved the troubleshooting instructions. Fixed a problem where messages…

He continued: “The question is which is SAFER. Because Mac OS X is still relatively rare, it is actually a little safer. But it has nothing to do with it being more secure, but rather, that bad guys are entirely focused on Windows at the moment due to the overwhelming market share Windows has. At this…

The new version boasts the following features and changes:* Fixed a crash with multiple projects and audio capture.* Fixed a crash that occurred while loading a project.* Unlimited media layers.* Add video, audio and text instantly.* Add chapter markers.* Edit movies in HD, SD, or any size.* Non-destructive editing.* Multiple levels of undo.* Live previews…

Twitter, when approached properly, can be an important tool for networking and staying in better contact with friends and colleagues than something abstract like LinkedIn. One need not be seduced into thinking that one must use Twitter to reveal personal thoughts or describe in detail your toothache. Rather, think of it as a new, sub-space…

ScreenRecord Studio integrates with both QuickTime and iMovie, enabling Mac OS X users to take full advantage of this all-in-one production tool. Extensive editing capabilities allow users to maintain complete control over every facet of the production of a presentation. Features also include the ability to incorporate images into a presentation directly from a DV…

This column is about some the cool things that are included as part of your OS X operating system. Those things that actually make your Mac so easy to use, even if you are not trying to save the world from the bad guys or writing the next great novel. Clippings Say you are conducting…

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…