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MacSurfer's Archive: Sunday, December 14, 2008
 

 

OS X
News
  • "Huge iPhone Cut-and-Paste Tool Security Flaw"  Slashdot 8:27 PM
  • "EFiX Mac clone aborted amid legal concerns: Yet another would be Mac cloner has shelved plans to bring a product to market amid claims the whole thing was a misunderstanding. EFiX USA planned a family of high-performance PCs that could be used to run Mac OS X with the aid of an optional extra, but later reversed its decision in a highly public turnaround." iTWire 7:28 PM
  • "NOTE: Millennium project is definitely abandoned, & EFIX USA LLC fights the clones and the clonemakers" EFi-X USA 12/12
  • "EFi-X USA to sell pre-made PCs capable of running Mac OS X: Leveraging an internal adapter that lets many generic PCs run Mac OS X, a company called EFi-X USA now plans to offer customers a solution for creating their own Mac systems.""  AppleInsider 12/12
  • "EFi-X USA decides to tempt Apple's lawyers, will start shipping OS X-capable machines" Engadget 12/12
  • "Researcher: Chrome, Safari password managers need work" Computerworld 12/12
  • "Mac OS X 10.5.6 update ready? No noticeable changes from builds suggests OS X update is nearly ready" Macworld UK 12/12
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
  • "Another solution to the pixelated photo bug on 2.2 firmware is to use one of the Photo apps available in the App store (Photogene, for example) to open the image and then save it again. Nothing needs to be done to adjust the image; merely saving it will cure the problem. A number of the photo manipulation apps have been updated to correct the OS's problem. They usually mention the bug in their description." MacInTouch 12/13
  • "iMovie '08: Cannot see or control camera" Apple Support 12/12
  • "Bugs & Fixes: Office 2008 and Leopard's Spaces don't mix" Macworld 12/12
  • "Parental Controls in 10.5.5 crashes on every iMac I setup. I'm logged in as an admin. Crashes 4 or 5 times until it finally holds and allows me to modify. Temporary fix until restart: Rename the file: youraccount/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist to systempreferences.plis.bad" MacInTouch 12/12
  • "Finder windows open unexpectedly upon login" MacFixIt 12/12
Reviews/How-To/Tips
  • "Of Mice and Men (and the Settings of Such)" Binary Bonsai 12/13
  • "Mac Neophyte Tips: Finder doesn't support FTP write access" Udo's Techblog 12/13
  • "On the topic of ACL management, Cody Frisch is correct that if you want to remove ACLs from a folder and its contents the easiest way is to just use the -N option, resulting in this terminal command: sudo chmod -R -N" ["filename"] MacInTouch 12/13
  • "Review: OpenOffice.org 3/Powerful productivity suite competes with Microsoft Office" Macworld 12/12
  • "Labels & Letters Restores Holiday Card Sanity" TidBITS 12/12
  • "Get better group photos: Combine multiple flawed shots into one winner with Photoshop Elements 6" Macworld 12/12
  • "Thunderbird 3 Becomes Viable Alternative to Apple Mail - Almost" The Mac Observer 12/12
  • "Review: Funtastic Photos a nice step up from editor in iPhoto" Macsimum News 12/12
  • "Converting from Now Up-to-Date to iCal and BusySync" TidBITS 12/12
  • "Resole problems with Office 2008 update installation" Mac OS X Hints 12/12
  • "Fix a VirtualBox Windows crash-on-pause issue" Mac OS X Hints 12/12
Op/Ed
  • "The OS X UI suffers from a fundamental flaw -- it considers mouse clicks to be cheap."  Ars Technica 5:04 PM
  • "Is There a Get Out of MobileMe Free Card?" Louis Gray 9:42 AM
  • "A Multi-Dimensional Desktop for Macs?" DaniWeb 12/13
  • "Apple Doesn't Care About Safari Extensibility""  Lifehacker 12/12
  • "Apple's 3D desktop looks a lot like Microsoft's Task Gallery""  Houston Chronicle 12/12
  • "Opinion: 3D Interface Madness Makes Default Leopard Dock Look Quite Nice Actually" Cult of Mac 12/12
Press Releases
  • "Official drivers for hackintosh" HardMac 5:16 PM
  • "New Final Cut Pro Video Tutorials Feature Updated Techniques" prMac 5:12 PM
  • "Cronette 1.0.1 to Automate Unattended Mac" prMac 12/13
  • "Thoughtful Tree Software releases Modena: a countdown timer for the Mac" prMac 12/13
  • "ProteMac announces ProteMac KeyBag 1.0 for Mac OS X" prMac 12/13
  • "SuperSync 3.0 iTunes Music Library Synchronization Software Released" SuperSync 12/12
  • "Limit Point Software today announced the release of Blue Crab 4.9.14 for Mac OS X. Blue Crab is a versatile program that you use to copy the contents of a website to your computer, in whole or in part." Limit Point Software 12/12
  • "Intellicore has released ImageTouch 2.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch" Intellicore 12/12
  • "Amju Pet Zoo released for Mac" Macworld 12/12
  • "Live Sync for Mac is back. What's with the remote access setting?" jkOnTheRun 12/12
  • "Bricscad coming to Mac - smaller companies look to Apple" Architosh 12/12
  • "Google's SketchUp 7 works with SpaceNavigator 3D mice" Architosh 12/12
  • "PointWise's Gridgen for Mac - Hybrid Meshing Made Faster" Architosh 12/12
  • "MonkeyBread Software releases version 6 of MBS Filemaker plug-in" MacTech Magazine 12/12
  • "Sonasoft Announces New Version of its SonaSafe Solution" MacTech Magazine 12/12
  • "Mozy announces general availability of MozyPro for Mac" MacTech Magazine 12/12
  • "After Effects CS4 9.0.1 improves QuickTime" MacNN 12/12
  • "Jumsoft debuts five new Sandvox Themes" prMac 12/12
  • "XChange International offer InDesign and QuarkXPress Users Bundle" prMac 12/12
  • "SuperSync 3.0 iTunes Music Library Synchronization Software Released" prMac 12/12
  • "ShinyFrog releases Img2icns 1.0: Creating icons has never been so easy" prMac 12/12
  • "Music Software djay Introduces Breakthrough Multi-Touch Trackpad Control" prMac 12/12