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Since having a child last year, my wife and I often find ourselves confirming that gravity does, in fact, continue to function well. Our toddler trips, sits down abruptly, and drops things from all heights as one would expect from someone still figuring out how her body is working.
We come across a lot of apps in our trials for finding new goodies, but many of them are too limited in function to write a whole post about. We usually tweet them @smokingapples, but for those of you who despise twitter, and for the sake of posterity, here’s a collection of must-have apps (depending on your tasks) you can use with your Mac.
This is probably the least used feature of Mac OS X, and yet it’s present in almost every application you might use. I’m talking about the Services menu of course, tucked in under the application name in your menubar. I must admit, for the longest time, I never really paid much attention to it
Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive partially lifted the veil on the secretive machinations of the Apple design process at a special “Innovation Night” event held at London’s Royal College of Art this week, where he later received an honorary doctorate. Ive was interviewed on stage by outgoing RCA rector Professor Sir Christopher Frayling.
With it’s ability to run so many different applications at the same time in Mac OS X, it can often become a task of its own just to locate the specific window you may be after. This is where Exposé comes in… Possibly one of the most productive features that OS X yields under its belt, Exposé allows you to access any window you like instantly in a user-friendly way.
One day it's bound to happen: Your Time Machine Backup Disk is full and there are too many changes for Time Machine to make a new backup. Or you simply think you'd feel more comfortable having more older files. So you go out and buy that coveted 3TB FireWire drive that you always thought you'd want for your backups. But how to proceed?
Apple Announces Netbook! That’s the headline you wanted to see, right? That’s the headline that industry analysts and so-called experts believe Apple must have in order to remain relevant in today’s economic climate. That’s also the headline you’re not likely to come across unless it happens to be April 1.
When I logged into MobileMe this morning, I noticed that my iDisk icon looked a bit different ... it now resembles the one representing the forthcoming iDisk app for the iPhone. It's not the only visual tweak to MobileMe. The Settings icon has received a refresh, and Mail has been changed to look more like its desktop counterpart, showing the count of unread items next to their respective folders
You may already be running Firefox 3.5, if you grabbed it early from Mozilla’s FTP servers, where it’s been available for a little while now, but if not, head over to Mozilla.com to update. I’ve been using the Beta and the Release Candidate versions for some time, and aside from the usual incompatibility with a few add-ons, I can tell you that 3.5 not only works great, but also packs some useful
Over at GigaOM Pro, Michael Wolf poses a really interesting question: When will television have its own App Store? Today’s TV application marketplace is in a similar place today as Apple was in its pre-App Store state: lots of competing software platforms, a growing number of connected devices (but none dominant) and a fairly small number of apps.
OS X is a popular platform for professional photographers, and offers a huge range of software which can help to take better photos, streamline post-processing, sell images, and publish them for others to view. Whether you’re a complete amateur or a seasoned pro, this roundup will have something new to show you. We’ll be covering 50 fantastic applications for various areas of photography: organiz
Apple blew by HP, Dell and even MagicJack (!) with the most visits to a website in May. According to the people who compile such statistics at Nielsen, Apple drew 55.7 million unique viewers, more than double what next ranked HP did. Much of that may have been driven by anticipation of the new iPhone.
And he's back, folks. Six months after Steve Jobs took a medical leave from Apple due to health reasons, the company has announced that he's back on the job, working a "few days a week" on the Apple campus and from home the remainder.
iPhone 3GS user KhenaKara was doing what new iPhone 3GS owners do best: shooting some video. His amazement of seeing the iPhone 3GS demo video seems to have drawn him closer to the pool, filled with a liquid dangerous to the survival of the iPhone: Water.
One iPhone developer looking to expand the capabilities of the iPhone's home screen has demonstrated to AppleInsider a working proof-of-concept that implements the Stacks features of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard into the iPhone's Springboard application. A very cool concept!
