Category Archives: Apple

OS X notifications

On the cusp of the iOS release, due today or any day now, iOS notifications is a great visual notification system on iPhone/iPad. However, OS X doesn’t have a native notification system. Growl is the closest thing we have as … Continue reading

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Mac Bluray Ripper Pro (for Mac)

I paid about £20 for this great software about a year ago to backup my Bluray discs to HDD so I can watch them anytime without having to take them out of their jackets and fast forward the ads.

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Reverse scroll (make scrolling on SL like Lion)

Have you upgraded to OS X Lion at home, but your work still is keeping you on OS X Snow Leopard? And are you getting confused about which way your scroller works?? Ever since the scroller was invented in 1990something, … Continue reading

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Digital Color Meter OS X.7 Lion [sucks]

For what it’s worth, Apple have stripped back DCM utility in their new OS. WTF!? I used that all the time, now I can’t copy colour, hold colour or pick in HEX?! A chap called Matt Patenaude has made a … Continue reading

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Xcode now free

Xcode development platform for Mac and iOS was originally free, which came with the OS X install disc. Then, a couple of months back when the AppStore was released by Apple, they started charging for it, which struck a few … Continue reading

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Advertising in OS’s

Would you or better yet, could you use an operating system that has adverts? Google are working on their web-based OS which would probably have the usual targeted adverts based on either surrounding content or user profile data.

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Safari 5.1 (Lion)

Understandably, the latest version of Safari is awesome, but bug ridden. It’s still an unreleased version with the upcoming OS Lion. There are a few issues.

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OS X.7 Lion (beta)

Firstly, I’ve been lucky enough to try out the latest build of OS X Lion developer preview for testing. Installation was simple enough, more so than regular OS X installs. Normally, you insert the disc and either execute the install … Continue reading

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Throttle bandwidth in OS X

Below is how to throttle your network bandwidth on OS X

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Adobe Audition for OS X

Finally, after months and months of waiting the beta for Audition is finally out. Originally created by Syntrillium, Cool Edit Pro was bought by Adobe and turned into “Audition”. A powerful audio editing tool for PC has now landed for … Continue reading

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