#MacStoriesDeals – Tuesday
Here are today’s @MacStoriesDeals on hardware, iOS, and Mac apps that are on sale for a limited time, so get them before they end! Hardware & Amazon Deals New! Refurbished Apple TV Media Receiver: $85 + free shipping New! Diddybeats High Performance In-Ear Headphones: $60 + free shipping _________________________________________ Mac Software New! iRip: $19.95 -> $9.97 New! Mockd. iPhone Mock-up...
David Leatherman Is A New And Unique Growl Theme
In February, design agency Yummygum posted a exciting Dribbble shot presenting a design idea for a new Growl notification. The tanned leather-styled design, which got inspired by a (also very cool) Growl theme idea of Manu Gamero, was designed in order to create a completely new and innovative theme, which would be different from any...
EdgeCase Stops Your Cursor Where Your Monitors Meet
I don’t use more than an external display or my MacBook’s internal display since managing a multi-monitor setup isn’t practical with Lion, but in the rare occasions that I do, my cursor always finds a way of wandering off the display I’m working on. EdgeCase boxes your pointer in the current display by putting up a virtual...
Chrome 19 Syncs Open Tabs Across Computers and Smartphones
Chrome 19 Syncs Open Tabs Across Computers and Smartphones From the Google Chrome blog: With today’s Stable release of Chrome, you can. When you’re signed in to Chrome, your open tabs are synced across all your devices, so you can quickly access them from the “Other devices” menu on the New Tab page. If you’ve got Chrome for...
Perian Will Get One More Update Before Being Sent Off To Die
Perian, the six-year old play-anything video package for the Mac, is about to be retired. It won’t be taken out round the back of the farm, forced to stand by an old bathtub and then shot in the back of the head and sprinkled...Perian to Retire After a Final Update
Perian to Retire After a Final Update From the Perian homepage: We began the Perian project over 6 years ago. We wanted to simplify viewing your content. Our team has attained that goal and with that in mind, Perian will be retired soon. Our stewardship has been a blast but it’s time for all of...
JPEGmini puts your images on a diet
If you're like me, you've got a hard drive filling up with images. I do a lot of landscape photography, and while I normally shoot in RAW format, they get output as jpegs for the web, email, and the printing service I use. Over the years I've seen a...
Bloomberg: Apple will debut new laptop lineup at WWDC
Bloomberg reports that Apple is preparing laptop upgrades with models that are thinner than the existing Pro units; the new machines are expected to run on Intel's Ivy Bridge processors. This follows on rumors from earlier today that a new MacBook...
Here’s How To Fix The Lag In Your Buggy iMessages
iMessages is really cool, and apparently it gives AT&T’s CEO bad dreams of happy customers because it gives us sweet little SMS messages for free. For the most part, iMessages works really well, except there are times when messages get all delayed you miss some important...Apple Teams Up With Kaspersky To Fight Mac Malware
If you still think your Mac is immune to malware and malicious infections then it’s time to stop kidding yourself. The recent Flashback trojan has proven that these a real issue for Apple’s desktop operating system, and as long as Mac OS X continues...Kaspersky analyzing Mac OS X security at Apple’s request
Following a breakout of malware on Mac OS X that some experts estimated could have infected up to 600,000 Macs, research firm Kaspersky made claims late last month that Apple was 10 years behind Microsoft in terms of security, while claiming roughly 140,000 Macs were still infected. Today Kaspersky CTO Nikolai Grebennikov confirmed with Computing that...
Talkcast tonight, 7pm PT/10pm ET: Mamas edition!
Not just Sunday, but Mother's Day Sunday! Once you've wrapped up brunch and presents for Mom, join us for the show tonight! We'll have a little news about system updates and new maps but mostly we want to talk to moms. We'll spend some time with a f...
