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W eb logs can tell you some amazing things, if you know how to interpret them, and they offer the advantage of not being able to lie. As such, we can get an outstanding glimpse into browser use, or at least a barometer of that use as it pertains to The Mac Observer (TMO). In…

Apimac is pleased to announce Apimac Secret Folder 2.4.2, the latest release of its shareware application that lets you hide a folder and its contents, for both Mac OS X and Mac Classic. This new build is a maintenance release that mainly introduces some code optimizations, making Apimac Secret Folder to launch faster and to…

AfterTen Software today announced the addition of WeatherManX Menubar to the WeatherManX Extras program suite. WeatherManX Menubar can display multiple weather icons in the menu bar for user selected U.S. cities. WeatherManX Menubar is an application that can put multiple icons in the menu bar representing the current weather conditions for many U.S. Cities. It…

St. Clair Software has released version 1.6.4 of Default Folder X, its popular utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs in Mac OS X. Default Folder X 1.6.4 adds a convenient menu to the Dock for quick access to folders, includes the ability to exclude Default Folder X from certain applications, and delivers significant improvements…

A s we reported Monday, Apple released an update to Mac OS X to version 10.2.2. Among other things, the update brings a journaling file system to the Mac. From an Apple technology PDF: Mac OS X Server version 10.2.2 provides a robust new journaling feature for the Mac OS Extended (HFS+) file system that…

G eekSpiff has updated its iChat enhancement utility that is conveniently called iChat Enhancer. iChat Enhancer adds one simple, and much needed, feature to iChat, the ability to make the input text field larger than one-line high. From the productis Web page: Version 1.3 adds Japanese localization and is updated to use version 1.1 of…

The page specifically warns that “Ongoing testing by DantzLab has found that Adaptec SCSI cards do not function in a consistent, reliable manner when used with Mac OS X.” It also states that the problem isnit specific to any application or version of OS X. ” The problem, which affects all versions of Mac OS…

St. Clair Software has released version 1.6.3 of Default Folder X, its utility for improving Open and Save dialogs in Mac OS X. Default Folder X 1.6.3 improves the reliability of the Default Folder X preference pane, eliminates occasional crashes when launching applications, and adds Japanese language support. You can find more information about the…

St. Clair Software has released version 1.6.2 of Default Folder X, its utility for improving Open and Save dialogs in Mac OS X. Default Folder X 1.6.2 corrects a single problem in the new version released earlier today. The earlier update fixed compatibility problems with Mac OS 10.2, but inadvertently disabled Default Folder Xis support…

O S X is Appleis new baby and Steve Jobs has been preaching that if you intend to develop for the Mac youid better do it in OS X. Mr. Jobs emphasized this notion when he gave his now famous eulogy for OS 9 at the World Wide Developeris Conference this past May, making it…

St. Clair Software has released version 1.6 of Default Folder X, its utility for improving Open and Save dialogs in Mac OS X. Default Folder X 1.6 includes support for Mac OS X 10.2 ("Jaguar") and also adds the much-requested "click on a Finder window" feature to OS X. You can now display a folder…

T here was a time when you could walk through any office, corporate cube farm, or home with a computer and you were bound to see the famous Flying Toaster flapping across unoccupied monitors. Since then, screen savers have become far more sophisticated and, with the exception of SETI@HOME-like CPU siphons, useless since new monitors…

W ired has published a story about a small record label that has adopted a blast from Appleis past. bremsstrahlung recordings, a record label catering to the "lowercase sound" scene, is using a very good implementation of System 6, the 68k Mac OS, as the interface for its Web site. lowercase sound is a minimalist…

St. Clair Software has released version1.5 of Default Folder X, its utility for improving Open and Save dialogs in Mac OS X. Chief among the new features in this release is support for Cocoa applications. Default Folder X now enhances the Open and Save dialogs in all Mac OS X-native applications. Version 1.5 also integrates…

M acromedia has announced Fireworks MX, the newest version of the companyis flagship Web graphics development app. The new version includes new features for creating JavaScript images (rollovers, pop-up menus, and the like), in addition to new ways to work with XML and other dynamically driven images. Fireworks MX is part of the companyis new…

For the record, there are a few Firewire webcams that list OS X support, but with a caveat. If you want to use the camera, for which you are usually paying over $100, in OS X you must also purchase a driver from another company! Of course, this little nugget of information isnit normally placed…