MacWorld, The new rules for buying a Mac. We bust the most common Mac shopping myths: “(…) For years, we have unquestioningly followed numerous unwritten rules when buying a Mac. Like many customs, these rules were once based on a foundation of facts and reason. But in the past few years, many longstanding Mac truths [...]
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X Lossless Decoder
November 8th, 2007
X Lossless Decoder: Lossless audio decoder for Mac OS X
Tags: ape · audio · cue · flac · lossless · m4a · mac · mp3 · ogg · os x · wav
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review
October 29th, 2007
John Siracusa: “I started this review talking about expectations. As I’ve learned more about Leopard, it’s become increasingly clear where, exactly, those two-and-a-half years of development time went. Leopard is absolutely packed with improvements. It seems that not a corner of the OS has gone untouched. Perhaps that’s not as clear to the casual user [...]
Mac OS X Leopard
October 27th, 2007
Mac OS X Leopard Dave Winer: “There isn’t much you can do, after the Mac has been around for 23 years, that hasn’t already been done.” John Gruber: ‘The most significant new feature in Leopard is Time Machine.’ Jason Snell: “As with every OS X update since version 10.1, there’s no single feature in Leopard [...]
Lock It Up
October 9th, 2007
MacWorld, I will keep my Mac safe from other users Use admin accounts for administration only Don’t share user accounts Turn on password prompts Encrypt sensitive files
Quicksilver demo and talk by Nicholas Jitkoff at Google
September 6th, 2007
Quicksilver demo by Nicholas Jitkoff at Google (via) Quicksilver
Tags: A1c0r · demo · mac · nicholas jitkoff · quicksilver · video
Reference for EVERY Character Key on a Mac
August 25th, 2007
Liquidicity: “Ever wanted to type the copyright icon, or do an accent over an A without having to resort to some character palette? We have, and it takes time and is an effort. So we put together a series of help sheets that reference all of the characters that aren’t listed on your keyboard, along [...]
Tags: characters · mac · os x · shortcuts