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MacSurfer's Archive: Saturday, August 16, 2008
 

 

OS X
News
  • "Goodbye, Eudora; hello, Apple Mail: Jeff Carlson gives the Eudora e-mail program the boot and finds there's much to like about Apple's Mail program." Seattle Times 9:56 AM
  • "MobileMe Users Targeted in Phishing Scam" ReadWriteWeb 8/15
  • "Oracle Reports More Than 23,000 Downloads Of Its iPhone Apps: While Apple iPhone apps have a small presence in the business world, IT execs at Disney, Genentech, and Kraft are endorsing the iPhone." InformationWeek 8/15
  • "Apps Bring Video Broadcasting To iPhone 3G: Qik and Flixwagon will allow users to stream live video from the smartphone over the Web, but only if the iPhone 3G is 'jailbroken'." InformationWeek 8/15
  • "Turn by Turn GPS Navigation for iPhone Coming?" Mac Rumors 8/15
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
  • "Security Update 2008-005 (#3): Safari crashes; Apps will not launch; Update fails; more" MacFixIt 8/15
  • "Office 2008 12.1.2 (#2): More fixes for problems installing; Word bugs" MacFixIt 8/15
  • "I use OS X 10.4.11 on my iMac G5 and iBook G4.: I have been successfully been using the .Mac Sync process, until now." MacInTouch 8/15
  • "Bugs & Fixes: Fixing a Spotlight search failure" Macworld 8/15
  • "Workaround and Apple acknowledgement of 'access_denied' printing error with Leopard 10.5.4" MacWindows 8/15
  • "Reader report on VirtualBox 1.6.2 and 1.6.4: speed good, but not with graphics" MacWindows 8/15
  • "Reader success with workaround for Boot Camp insufficient drive space issue" MacWindows 8/15
  • "Random crashes in Win XP in Boot Camp" MacWindows 8/15
Reviews/How-To/Tips
  • "iPhone screen capture: With the new 2.0 firmware, you can take a screen capture using an easy key combo. Just hold down the home button and press the power button briefly. If you hold it for several seconds, the phone will soft reset, but if you just press and release, you'll see the screen flash and an image will be stored in your photos folder." Electronics Infoline 10:12 AM
  • "Quick Tip: Enable USB Sound Devices" Maciverse 9:03 PM
  • "Inside MobileMe: Web 3 and Web client-server apps" AppleInsider 8/15
  • "Streamtime review: Get to grips with managing your time, quotes and invoices" Macworld UK 8/15
  • "Organize your life the open source way" thriftmac 8/15
  • "Macsimum Migration Kit: dance studio management software" Macsimum News 8/15
  • "Use an AppleScript to force a desktop picture change" Macworld 8/15
  • "What iDVD '08 Compression Options Really Mean" Mac OS X Hints 8/15
Op/Ed
  • "When RSS Is So Cool, Why Is Apple Mail So Lame?" rtfa 8/15
  • "Apple Opportunity #2 - The iPhone OS" Cell Canada 8/15
  • "Apple Opportunity #1 - An OS Inflection Point?" Cell Canada 8/15
  • "SIGGRAPH Feature: Architosh Talks to Robert McNeel About Rhino for Mac and More..." Architosh 8/15
  • "The end run around the OS is underway: The operating system may be losing its luster. In fact, you could argue that the operating system–Linux, OS X and Windows–will become an application that just happens to boot first. And hardware vendors are on to the OS's diminishing importance."  ZDNet Blogs: Between the Lines 8/15
  • "Apple's new 'Mobile Me'...I hate it...can you convince me to keep it?"  FOXNews: Gretawire 8/15
  • "Why I'm Leaving MobileMe (Hint: It's Not the Botched Launch)"  My First Mac 8/15
Press Releases
  • "Reference Tracker is an indispensable tool for writers, researchers or students. It creates documents that store all the citations and references in an essay, research project or book. It automatically creates Harvard or APA (American Psychological Association) formatted reference lists to insert into your writing when needed." Malkinware 8:01 PM
  • "Xero set to make Mac users passionate about online accounting software" PR-USA.net 10:25 AM
  • "Lock up your Mac with a USB security key: Software uses unique identifier on any USB drive" TechRadar UK 10:14 AM
  • "iTaskX improves MS Project compatibility" Macworld 8/15
  • "XChange Announce Release of Bookletizer and MediaBoxXT for Quark 8" prMac 8/15
  • "XChange Announce Release of OpenNow Pro XT for QuarkXPress 8" prMac 8/15
  • "SuperMegaUltraGroovy and toastycode Announce TapeDeck 1.1" prMac 8/15