iTunes updateApple today released iTunes 9.1 via Software Update and the company’s iTunes download page. The update brings several enhancements such as support for iPad syncing including eBook content and greater customizability of Genius Mixes.
iTunes 9.1 comes with several new features and improvements, including:
- Sync with iPad to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on the go
- Organize and sync books you’ve downloaded from iBooks on iPad or added to your iTunes library
- Rename, rearrange, or remove Genius Mixes
Apple’s iPad is scheduled ...(continue read) tags: music, pictures, updateApple today released Mac OS X 10.6.3, the third maintenance update for Snow Leopard, via Software Update and the company’s software downloads page. The update offers several hundred fixes implemented since the release of Mac OS X 10.6.2 last November and an interim security update issued in JanuaryThe 10.6.3 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes that:
- improve the reliability and compatibility of QuickTime X
- address compatibility ...(continue read) tags: updateiMovie ’08 Introduced drag-and-drop editing — a fun and easy way to make movies, even if you’ve never edited a single frame. iMovie ’09 takes drag-and-drop editing even further. For starters, it gives you more ways to add clips to your project: Now you can replace or insert clips using a single pop-up menu. Or edit just your audio. When you choose to show the Advanced Tools menu in iMovie preferences, drag-and-drop editing includes additional options such as cutaways, picture-in-picture, and green-screen effects.
This update improves reliability when working with videos from Aperture.
The ...(continue read) tags: update, video On a Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system, you can give your computer a custom audio alert instead of using the generic tones installed by default on your computer. As long as the audio clips are AIFF format, Mac OS X allows you to use all kinds of clips, including musical tracks, a voiceover, or musical theme. Get creative and add your favorite alert sound to your operating system.Step1: Open folder with custom sounds
Navigate to the “~/Library/Sounds” folder in “Finder” Command+Shift+G. The “~/Library/Sounds” folder contains all the custom ...(continue read) tags: music, sounds, system preferencesThe MacPorts Project provides software installation, updating, and removal functionality to OS X similar to Linux’ apt-get or yum. The Project is currently tracking more than 5000 packages including software such as subversion, wget, apache2, php5, etc.
To install the software, first install Apple’s Xcode Developer Tools (available on your Mac OS X installation disc) and the X11 windowing environment (included by default in 10.6.* “Snow Leopard”, 10.5.* “Leopard”, but available on your Mac OS X installation discs for 10.4.* “Tiger” and 10.3.* “Panther”), then ...(continue read) tags: Linux If you’re webmaster, you’ll probably know about Google Analytics – free web statistics service.
Thanks a freelancer from Romania vladalexa who created a really cool way to add a free the Google Analytics Service to your Dashboard.
AnalyticsWidget is a free dashboard widget for OS X that displays Google Analytics data, content overview, visitors overview and traffic sources overview.AnalyticsWidget Free download tags: dashboard, google, statistics, webmasterQuickTime X has come with support for a limited number of formats out of the box. For even decent video format support, Apple recommends that you download codecs individually.
There is an alternative, Perian. Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.The latest version, 1.2.1, supports QuickTime X in Snow Leopard and the following formats:File formats: AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW
Video types: MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, ...(continue read) tags: video playerQuickTime has been around since well before OS X, dating back to 1991, but this old dog gets new life in the next version of the Mac OS.
If you have made the move to Snow Leopard then you are using the new QuickTime X. There are a few keyboard shortcut that can help you while using the new application.
here’s list how you can navigate the video from the keyboard:Spacebar
Play and pause video playback
Option-Up Arrow
Increase volume to maximum volume
Option-Down Arrow
Mute audio
Up Arrow
Increase volume level
Down Arrow
Decrease volume level
Command-Left Arrow
Rewind movie, ...(continue read) tags: shortcuts, video playerQuick Silver
I’ve been having a problem for the past few days. When I invoke Quicksilver B57 (3840) on Snow Leopard and type “dict” or “mail” or “terminal”, the first result is an entry called: ”Dictionary.app (Catalog)” ”Mail.app (Catalog) with no icon. When I try to open this, nothing happens, naturally. Same issue happensto other applications like Mail, Terminal, etc.
The path to the item shown below the icon window is correct, however it will not show the actual item or treat it normally where I can open it, descend into it, ...(continue read) tags: bug, quicksilverApple today released Safari 4.0.5 for Mac (Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard) bringing a number of enhancements to Apple’s Internet browser application.
This update is recommended for all Safari users and includes improvements to performance, stability, and security including:Performance improvements for Top Sites
Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins
Stability improvements for websites with online forms and Scalable Vector Graphics
Fixes an issue that prevented Safari from changing settings on some Linksys routers
Fixes an issue that prevented some iWork.com users from commenting ...(continue read) tags: browser, security, updateWhen tabs finally found their way into Web browsers some years ago, people immediately fell in love with them. In fact, most people wonder how someone could live without them. With Apple’s love for a minimalist interface, you have to wonder why we still don’t have them on the desktop. Whatever the reason, we’ve been left to wait for a third-party solution.
Thankfully, a creative and persistent developer has finally figured out a way to add them into Mac OS X’s Finder without completely replacing the look, feel and functionality of the Finder in the process.Tabs in Mac OS X’s ...(continue read) tags: tabbed windows[pro-player]http://vimeo.com/9820827[/pro-player]
Transparent House used its visualization capabilities to create a tribute to a company they greatly admire on the occasion of the iPad release. The idea was to show a glimpse into the history of this product giant by modeling some of the innovative products they’ve developed in their 3+ decade history. If Finder is misbehaving you probably think you need to restart your computer. Usually you can fix the problem by relaunching Finder itself. This saves a lot of time since the relaunch only takes seconds to do.
Here 4 ways for relaunching Finder in Snow Leopard
Relaunching with Dock
This is probably the fastest way to relaunch Finder.Hold down control-option and click on the Finder icon stuck onto Dock
Choose Relaunch option from appearing contextual menu
Finder should be relaunched by then
Relaunching with Terminal
As usual, Terminal lends us a great help in relaunching Finder.Open Terminal ...(continue read) tags: Finder, relaunch |
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