Category: Mac News

App of the Week - Monocle for OS X

27 June, 2008 (14:00) | , , | No comments

It’s a belated app of the week this time around, but I think it’s worth it.
One of the things I’ve always thought is missing from Spotlight is the ability to search Google and the like from it. It’s a brilliant tool now, but it would definitely take it one step further for me if […]

Evernote hits the wild, paid for option available

25 June, 2008 (11:02) | , , | No comments

Evernote has been around for a while now in private beta form. Yours truly had an account, and I must admit I don’t think I’ve used it once since the initial novelty wore off ! Yesterday however saw the release of Evernote into the wild, with no invites required. They’ve also started […]

Cool OS X tip of the day - Safari searches

23 June, 2008 (18:29) | , , , | No comments

Thanks very much to Chris Pirillo, who just posted this on Twitter:

Just tried this and works a treat. One of those little tips that makes so much sense once you know it works !
Cheers Chris !

Fluid.app rocks my world

21 June, 2008 (20:45) | , , | No comments

In today’s connected world, more and more of our life is spent online, using various websites day in day out. Be it social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook or Flickr, we can have numerous tabs open in our browsers all the time. Wouldn’t it be neat if they were stand alone apps?
Well […]

Mac OS X - it speaks !

12 June, 2008 (22:53) | , , | 6 comments

Eeaster Eggs, everyone loves ‘em ! OS X has one of the best, and I posted it over on Lifehacker just now.
Fire up Terminal and type in ’say hello world’ without the quotes and hit return. You should now be treated to the sound of your mac saying hello to, well, the world. […]

Apple release details in relation to ‘Snow Leopard’

9 June, 2008 (23:13) | , | 2 comments

Well, as you’ll no doubt be aware, all the recent OS talk has been of Mac OS X 10.6, codename Snow Leopard.
According to the Soothsayers over at TUAW, who first broke the 10.6 story, Apple have released details of the forthcoming OS.
After some further digging, its clear that OS X 10.6 will not include many […]

.mac is now MobileMe

9 June, 2008 (22:47) | , | No comments

Another piece of news to come out of WWDC is the re-branding of .mac (dotmac). Renamed MobileMe, the service will be a subscription service offering ‘Exchange for the rest of us’.
Users can expect Push Email, Push Calendars and Push Contacts, with all this information stored on a central ‘Cloud’. From here your mac, […]

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