Posts tagged Macintosh

Default Folder X 4.4.10

  St. Clair Software has announced the immediate availability of  Default Folder X 4.4.10. This release brings compatibility updates and better performance to its award-winning utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs. Honored with Macworld Magazine’s Editors’ Choice Award for Best System Enhancement Utility, Default Folder X makes Open and Save dialogs “work the way they should.”   Continue reading »

How Apple created OS X

This article on techradar pretty much tells the story as I remember and believe it happened.

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Pins partners with TheMacBundles

pic Pins 1.4 is the updated version of the easy-to-use yet powerful bookmarks library for Mac OS X. Pins is the easy and beautiful bookmarks manager app for the mac that lets users keep all their bookmarks in one place. It is the organized, taggable, searchable, syncable, shareable, visual library for most if not all bookmarking needs.   Continue reading »

Dangerous for Mac

Binary Helix has to announced the availability of the award-winning game “Dangerous” for Mac on the Apple Mac App Store for a launch sale price of $14.99. Dangerous is a 3D open and living world space combat sandbox RPG. Using our state-of-the-art virtual machine (VM) technology, players are immersed in a universe where over six hundred AI ships fly around autonomously even while the player is docked inside a space station. Players are also treated to the award-winning soundtrack composed by renown composer, Sean Beeson.  Continue reading »

30 ways to improve your Mac

This article at TechRadar talks about ways to improve your Mac experience.

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WPXO 1.1

Dale Gillard has released WPXO 1.1 which is an update to his companion application for Microsoft Office for Mac. WPXO is a simple app for your Mac’s menu bar that makes it faster and easier to work with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook applications.
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DVDpedia 5.0.3

pic Bruji has announced version 5.0.3 of DVDpedia, an update to their popular movie cataloging application for Mac OS X. DVDpedia has access to many different international databases and allows users to build their DVD, Blu-Ray and VHS database using keyword or barcode searches. Users can organize their movies in smart collections and folders, export their collections in different formats, including customizable HTML, and access statistics about their database.   Continue reading »

Hazel 3

It has been awhile, but we have talked about Hazel before. It is cleaning software for your Macintosh named after the famous comic maid or maybe the witch.

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Chronicle 4.2

pic LittleFin Software has announced the release and immediate availability of Chronicle 4.2 in the Mac App Store, an update to their best-selling home finance and bill paying application for Mac OS X. Version 4.2 introduces a new e-mail reminder service. The service sends the user an e-mail before each bill is due, reminding the user to make a payment even when Chronicle is not running. Continue reading »

The Evolution of Mac OS

This article and slide shows show iconic parts of Mac OS starting in 1984 through the Mountain Lion announcement.   Continue reading »

Default Folder X

St. Clair Software has announced the availability of Default Folder X 4.4.9. This release fixes compatibility issues and adds new features to its award-winning utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs. Honored with Macworld Magazine’s Editors’ Choice Award for Best System Enhancement Utility, Default Folder X makes Open and Save dialogs “work the way they should.”   Continue reading »

SecureMac Releases PrivacyScan

SecureMac has announced the release of PrivacyScan, Privacy Protection for your Mac. The company’s first Mac App Store release, PrivacyScan is a utility designed for people who value privacy and want to keep their online and offline experiences private.   Continue reading »

Apple InfoManager

Apple Computer Steve Jobs pitches Cupertino Happy Birthday Mac … remember the original Mac ad during the Super Bowl? Who was big brother? Was it Microsoft? Today most are saying that Google is actually ‘Big Brother’ but we doubt Apple will be doing much about that! Oh well! Here are the best news items about Apple since last time
* Technophile: Ditching the digital age’s ‘right-hand man’
* Apple Earnings: Did Jobs’s Roadmap Include U.S. Jobs?
* Macworld Conference Carries On Without Apple
* Apple unveils digital textbooks app for iPad
* Apple’s Computer Birthday: The Mac at 28
* Editorial: Restoring ‘made in America’
* Happy 28th Birthday, Macintosh!
* Apple Never Fired Steve Jobs
* Macintosh Computer Day
. . . and more

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Connected Accounting & ERP

When I founded the Macintosh Business SIG as part of the Boston Computer Society back in 1986, there seemed to be more accounting software for the Mac than there is today. Usually you hear people talking about Quickbooks and maybe AccountEdge. Here is one that I had completely forgotten about, that is certainly worth considering.

Accountek Solutions Inc., a leader in the Macintosh accounting software industry for over 20 years, has announced the release of its latest version of Connected Accounting & ERP software, version 7.0, including advanced features that focus on access to information and improving collaboration between teams. The version 7.0 release of Connected Accounting & ERP enables businesses to move one step closer to a paperless office and boost productivity. Continue reading »

17 Overlooked Lion Features

PCWorld is running this article about features in Mac OS X Lion that most of us don’t use and perhaps don’t even know about. Continue reading »