Category: Mac

  • New Safari (released version) now passes the Acid2 test

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    The latest release of Safari (v2.02) – released in Mac OS X 10.4.3 today, now passes the Acid2 test – wohoo! Acid2 is a test page, written by the Web Standards Project, to help browser vendors ensure proper support for web standards in their products. Safari is now ahead of every major browser in its…

  • OS X update to 10.4.3 released

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    The 10.4.3 Update delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for Mac OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users. It includes fixes for: – AFP, SMB/CIFS, NFS and FTP network file services – AirPort and Bluetooth wireless access – Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, and RAW camera support – disc recording when creating…

  • PowerBook G4 wake-from-sleep keyboard failure

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    I’m having a really annoying problem with my Apple PowerBook G4 keyboard: If the PowerBook hasn’t fully gone to sleep when the lid is closed, then the keyboard fails when the PowerBook wakes from sleep. The effect of this is that without a functioning keyboard, I am unable to login to the PowerBook and so…

  • Ripping DVDs for your iPod made easy!

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    Mark pilgrim has written a simple step-by-step guide to ripping DVDs so that they can be played on your shiny new video iPod. The guide is incredibly straightforward and has large screenshots to make it completely idiot-proof (even I could do it!). Obviously this will only be of interest to you if you want to…

  • New lame Adserving software

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    Mark Evans has written an article about a new Ad Serving company called AdGenta. It is supposed to deliver more relevant ads because you upload your blogs posts through a downloadable AdGenta application called Qumana (where do they come up with these names?). You compose the post in Qumana, click on the advertising button and…

  • Apple introduces new iMac

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    At the San Jose event today Steve jobs also announced a new iMac G5. See here for more The new iMac is thinner than its predecessors, it has a built-in iSight camera for video conferencing, and it has a new application called Front Row. Front Row is a program which allows imac owners to use…

  • Video iPod and new iTunes

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    Apple, after much anticipation, released the video iPod at their “one More Thing…” event in San Jose today. The new model is 30 percent thinner than previous models, has a larger 2.5-inch QVGA display with 324 x 240 resolution, at 30fps, 260,000 color 2.5-inch display, H.264 support, and either a 30 or 60GB hard drive…

  • Nano problem solved – leave it in the store window

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    Jim Dalrymple writing in macWorld, got a response from Apple about the iPod Nano screen scratching problem I mentioned here a couple of days ago. On Apple’s own Discussions site – the number of posts complaining about the screen scratch problem was 583 when the Register checked, and when I had a look this morning,…