Category: Mac

  • Running Windows on OS X

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    Actually Sprinting Windows on OS X might be a more accurate post title or Screaming Windows, or… Parallels is virtualisation software which allows you to run other OS’s on your Mac. I splashed out recently and bought myself a new 15″ MacBook Pro (2.16ghz intel core duo, 2gb ram, 120gb hd). Now that I have…

  • Apple claims trademark infringement on 'Podcast'

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    Apple has yet again sent in the lawyers – this seems to be a favourite tactic of theirs which is increasingly giving them a bad name (and I am a Mac fan!). This time, Apple have gone after a company called Podcast Ready for their use of the word Podcast and myPodder (their product name).…

  • Blip.tv enable in-browser video recording

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    I have mentioned Blip.tv previously but I didn’t mention their in-browser video recorder. Today I decided to try it out and I have to say, apart from a few minor quibbles, I am well impressed. Especially since this function is still in Alpha. What quibbles did I have? Well The counter counting off the time…

  • New Mac Pro Launches

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    The new Mac Pro was launched yesterday at the Apple World Wide Developer Conference. 64 bit Quad Xeon – up to 3ghz and 16gb RAM! Wow!

  • Free label printing software for Mac

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    Via UCC’s Dave Murphy comes news that Avery have released free label printing software for the Mac. For anyone who has struggles printing of labels in the past – this is great news. The software has: templates for all Avery printable products, support for both Printer Fonts and Macintosh Fonts. Mail merge from Excel, Word,…

  • Skype launch video for Mac (preview)

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    Skype have released Skype for Mac with Video Preview. You can download it here. It is beta software so be aware that when you install it, you may have issues. Having said that, I installed it on my iMac G5 and so far so good! This is a photo of my first video call on…

  • Half Life 2 on Mac

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    I see a blogger called Cabel has installed Half Life 2 (a PC game) on his Mac after he installed XP using Apple’s new Boot Camp application – he has a video up of the game playing and it seems to go quite smoothly to my untrained eye. Now the mac is a games machine…

  • Who wants to run Windows on a Mac?

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    It looks like Apple have decided to make it easy to install Windows on your Mac with their Beta release of their new Boot Camp product. You can download a public beta today and try it out if you have an Intel based Mac and are running the latest version of OS X (10.4.6). This…