Archive for category Mac OSX
Mac OSX 10.7.3 Released
Posted by gavomatic57 in Mac OSX, News on February 1, 2012
Apple has released another large (in megabytes, not content) update to Lion. 10.7.3 brings a few new languages, including Catalan, Croatian, Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, Slovak, Thai, and Ukrainian. It also adds fixes for directory services, smart cards and Windows file sharing. Also fixed is the wifi issue experienced when waking your machine from sleep mode and [...]
iBooks Author for Photobooks
Posted by gavomatic57 in Mac OSX, Photography, Project 365 on January 21, 2012
Apple’s iBooks 2 and iBooks Author announcement may have been aimed at schools and colleges, but it is worth remembering that iBooks Author is exactly that and not just for authoring textbooks. Ever since finishing my 365 project at the end of 2011, I’ve been trying to muster enough motivation to start putting the images [...]
Apple’s Education Drive
Posted by gavomatic57 in iOS, Mac OSX, Utilities on January 19, 2012
When Apple doesn’t like something, or it senses that there’s a way to do something better you can bet that at some point down the line they will try to do something about it. Today it decided to announce its assault on the humble textbook. The textbook has barely changed at all over the years. [...]
iTunes Match
Posted by gavomatic57 in iOS, Mac OSX, Music, Utilities on December 20, 2011
Back in the day (wow, I’m starting to say that a lot…) when we were all managing perfectly fine with dial-up connections, things were simple. The internet consisted of many static HTML web pages covered in text, low resolution images and tables. There would often be a spattering of gaudy background images as well. It [...]
This Computer is Already Associated with an Apple ID
Posted by gavomatic57 in Apple, Mac OSX on December 16, 2011
If you are one of those people eager to sign up to iTunes Match, you may run into problems if you share your Mac or PC with another person in your home. We have one Mac and a number of iOS devices, including an Apple TV (gen 2). Unfortunately, you can only use one Apple ID every 90 days with iTunes in the Cloud. So, if my wife downloads a few of her past purchases on our mac using her Apple ID I have to wait 90 days before I can do the same.
Logic Pro 9 & MainStage on the Mac App store
Posted by gavomatic57 in Mac OSX, News on December 9, 2011
In keeping with other boxed titles that make it onto the Mac App store, Logic Pro has now made the jump to the download marketplace with a significantly cheaper price.
Parallels 7 – Installing PC-BSD As A Guest
Posted by gavomatic57 in Internet, Mac OSX on December 3, 2011
I’ve been a fan of Linux and general open-sorcery for some time now, but one thing that grinds my gears with Linux is licensing issues and the GPL. Grand Central dispatch, ZFS etc are great technologies that are unavailable to Linux because they are on different licenses that are “incompatible” with the GPL.
Steam Autumn Sale
Posted by gavomatic57 in Games, Mac OSX, PC Games on November 24, 2011
It’s sale time again on Steam. The annual Steam sales are an expensive nightmare for me usually, as there is just so much stuff to buy at great prices. The current deal includes Portal 2 for a mere £6.79. If you don’t already have it (you may be mad, who knows), now would be a [...]
iOS 5 & iCloud Day
Posted by gavomatic57 in iOS, Mac OSX on October 12, 2011
Today is one of those days dreaded by Internet Service Providers the world over. Today is the day the vast majority of iPhone owners, iPad owners and, Mac users will spend their evening downloading a deluge of updates.
Mac OSX – Macworld 2000
Posted by gavomatic57 in Mac OSX on September 27, 2011
Here’s a trip down memory lane for you. Back in the year 2000 Mac OS 10 was announced at Macworld. It’s amazing to look back 11 years and see the humble beginnings of Mac OSX. It’s on its 8th major iteration now and whilst the UI has been refined over time and the underlying code has changed, it has still remained quite faithful to its original principals. The video is in three parts thanks to Youtube’s 10-minute limit at the time.
Final Cut Pro X Update 10.0.1
Posted by gavomatic57 in Mac OSX, News on September 20, 2011
In an effort to appease the legion of unhappy Final Cut users who upgraded to the completely re-written version 10 (Final Cut Pro X), Apple has started the process of restoring some of the features it took away during the rewrite.
Google Chrome Canary
Posted by gavomatic57 in Internet, Mac OSX on September 10, 2011
If you’re the type of person who likes to live life on the bleeding edge where software is concerned, you run Google Chrome and you also use a Mac, you may want to give Chrome Canary a go. Canary is Google’s experimental version of Chrome, sporting a number of features they intend to include in the mainstream version. The current stable version of Chrome is 13.0.782.220, yet Canary is racing out in front with 15.0.874.7. Currently hiding behind those elevated numbers are a number of Lion-related additions such as a full-screen mode accessibly by the top right corner of the window plus a few new swiping gestures.
Aperture 3′s Flickr Integration
Posted by gavomatic57 in Aperture, Mac OSX on September 4, 2011
Aperture 3 is a brilliant application for managing your photos, I trust it with all of my images, create slideshow videos from it at do 99.9% of my post-processing with it. However, there is one feature that causes much consternation amongst users who don’t understand how it is supposed to work.
Lion Update 10.7.1
Posted by gavomatic57 in Apple, Hardware, Mac OSX on August 17, 2011
Lion’s first update has hit System Update and it addresses a problem I was having with the system becoming unresponsive when starting a video in Safari. It also addresses some wifi issues.
OSX Lion – Safari 5.1 Memory Leak
Posted by gavomatic57 in Mac OSX on August 11, 2011
If you’ve spent a few hours using the new & improved Safari that is shipped with Lion, you may have noticed it consuming your RAM like it is going out of fashion. It appears that Safari 5.1 has a bit of a memory leak and it is down to a new sandboxing feature that moves all of the webpage rendering onto a separate process.
OSX Lion Recovery Disk Assistant
Posted by gavomatic57 in Apple, Hardware, Mac OSX, News on August 9, 2011
Every Mac before OSX Lion’s release (that I’m aware of) came with a CD/DVD with the entire operating system on it. This allowed you to reinstall OSX very easily should you or some errant software manage to make a right mess of your boot partition. Now that Lion is download-only, you’re probably wondering how you [...]
How to Escape Lion’s “Resume” Infinite Loop
Posted by gavomatic57 in iWork, Mac OSX on August 4, 2011
Useful tip here from an old friend (from school actually) and boffin at Bad Apples Tech Support. It seems that under certain circumstances you can find yourself in a feedback loop caused by what is arguably Lion’s most idiotic feature – Resume. You can find yourself locked out of an application in a never-ending cycle [...]
OSX Lion – After One Week
Posted by gavomatic57 in Mac OSX on August 1, 2011
Ok, it has been over a week since I installed Lion on both of my Macs. To tell you the truth, now that I’ve sorted out the performance problems by clearing my caches, running the maintenance scripts and repairing my permissions it is now running very nicely indeed. However, the Lion upgrade wasn’t about performance at all and was actually about the new iOS-like features. So, am I using any of them?
iTunes 10.4 and Last.fm scrobbling
Posted by gavomatic57 in Internet, Mac OSX on July 26, 2011
If you’ve upgraded to iTunes 10.4 on OSX, whether that be Lion or Snow Leopard, you may be missing the familiar sight of your big red Last.fm application launching when you launch iTunes. You’ll also find that the last.fm application is unable to scrobble your iPod activity.
OSX Lion – The Ars Technica Review
Posted by gavomatic57 in Mac OSX on July 25, 2011
If you are at all interested in Apple’s new operating system and in the mood to learn something, you owe it to yourself to read the stunning 19-page Ars Technica review of it. It is fantastically detailed and talks about everything from the UI design, through to the new security features and even goes into [...]
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