Pocket Gamer reports that Apple’s 3.1.3 firmware for the iPod Touch is now free. Apple has eliminated the price for upgrading your iPod touch to the latest firmware, making version 3.1.3 free for everyone. That’s a significant shift by Apple, which had recently lowered the price of the firmware upgrade in hopes of coaxing iPod […]
We\’ve known for a while that Google wasn\’t actively improving Gears, their tool that offers offline support for many popular web applications. Now the Official Gears blog explains their transition to the game-changing HTML5: If you\’ve wondered why there haven\’t been many Gears releases or posts on the Gears blog lately, it\’s because we\’ve shifted […]
Here\’s a discussion from an Adobe Flash Player engineer, regarding the Macintosh support of Flash, and how Adobe is trying to improve the their Macintosh Support… kaourantin.net: Core Animation.
One method to help automate screen sharing with Mac OS X, was to create a vncloc alias for each system that you were connecting to.  In 10.6 this has been mostly automated. To find these shortcuts, navigate to your user’s Library -> Application Support folder, where you’ll find a folder named Screen Sharing. Inside that […]
The full post on this is here, but I wanted to make sure that everyone saw this, since there is a lot of traffic on this issue…. I believe that a solution has been found in the Apple Customer forums… Â The following command, will reproduce the plist was not a dictionary error message… /System/Library/CoreServices/PreferenceSyncClient.app/Contents/MacOS/PreferenceSyncClient –sync […]
I never knew this, but \”Jiffy\” is not just slang… Jiffy is used in different applications for various short, very short, or extremely short periods of time. In informal speech a \”jiffy\” means any unspecified short period of time, as in \”I\’ll be back in a jiffy\”, but in other contexts it has more precise […]
Windows/Mac/Linux: The latest version of OpenOffice.org, the free and open-source office suite, improves startup times by over 40 percent (by some tests), improves importing and support for password-protected and 2007 office files, and improves many areas of the Calc spreadsheet. You can check out the full feature list at OpenOffice.org, but the majority is nitty-gritty […]
First, Breathe… Â Yes, take a few deep breathes…. You see, we\’re all doomed… Â Yes, indeedy, doomed I say. Â After all, the Macintosh Dashboard is the vector which all viruses will be created with in mind… Â And Windows viruses will disappear due to the popularity of the Dashboard vector…. Â (SLAP)… Â Sorry, I needed that, I was […]