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[6 Feb 2012 | No Comment | 616 views]

Last week’s OS X Lion update, specifically the delta version, caused some people grief with the result being crashing Apple and third-party apps whereupon a error message garnished with repetitions of “CUI” and question marks — check out a screen …

Deals, Mac »

[6 Feb 2012 | No Comment | 278 views]

Personally, I am waiting for this year’s tax return to get a “new to me” Apple Certified Factory Refurbished iMac — the one on my desk is a 2007 model and my wife’s, which she shares with the kids, is …

Deals, Mac, Software »

[3 Feb 2012 | No Comment | 150 views]

Whether you put the difference in the bank or buy yourself lunch, save big on the SmithMicro software you need. Six of the company’s most popular Mac packages — StuffIt Deluxe, Anime Studio, Manga Studio, Aquazone, Poser, Morpheus — are …

Mac, Software »

[3 Feb 2012 | No Comment | 386 views]

Your mouse and/or trackpad? Those things are so 20th Century. What you really need to time travel straight back to the 19th Century — never take your hands off the keyboard and style at warp speed.
Do I use it? …

Mac, Security, Software »

[2 Feb 2012 | 2 Comments | 1,131 views]

Whether you’re looking at the client (997MB), combo (1.2GB) or server (1GB) versions of this update, it’s pretty darned big and the likeliest reason for that are the eight “new” languages supported by OS X Lion. There’s also a fresh …

Mac, Software »

[2 Feb 2012 | No Comment | 372 views]

Mac utilities come and go with OS X releases, and Lion has left a lot of broken apps in its wake. TechTool Pro and Lion Cache Cleaner have both been updated on the day and date Apple issued a rather …

Mac, Software »

[2 Feb 2012 | No Comment | 330 views]

If you’re a fan OS X Lion’s distraction free fullscreen mode, this latest Evernote is a mix of good and perhaps not so good news. Whereas we get an improved note editing layout (screen caps below the fold), some folks …

Mac, Music, movies, TV »

[1 Feb 2012 | One Comment | 506 views]

If you haven’t already gotten Boxee for your Mac or PC, it may be too late as the company has pulled the apps from their website. A little digging around on shows TechSpot’s still offering the Mac version, but Boxee …

iOS, Mac, Reviews, how to »

[1 Feb 2012 | One Comment | 498 views]

Apple released Safari 5 on June 7, 2010 and over 18 months later we’re still using a dot-variant thereof. Whether intended or not — Steve Jobs had just declared war on Adobe Flash — that D-Day anniversary marked the beginning …

Mac, Software »

[31 Jan 2012 | No Comment | 760 views]

Apple’s latest operating system opus has elicited a chorus of boos from some quarters. With that apparently in mind, the company has updated version 5.x of their popular Airport Utility and launched the Lion-friendly version 6, which is simplicity personified …