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Apple released Aperture 3 the other day with some impressive new features (Mac OS X only).
Apple Aperture is a photography workflow application similar to Adobe Lightroom. Aperture was actually initially released before Lightroom and the two have been competing since Lightroom was released soon after.
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I’ve upgrade two Macs (2009 MacBook Pro Laptop & 2006 Mac Pro desktop) to Snow Leopard OS X 10.6 and here’s a few things I’ve experienced.
Note: These findings are mostly from my older Mac Desktop which has many years of accumulation of odd utilities and applications. Your mileage may vary with your own Snow Leopard [...]
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While I’m still a couple of days away from receiving my upgrade copy of Apples OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, I have been reading and monitoring others experience and it appears overall a good release. Remember, Snow Leopard is only for Intel based Macs. If you’re using an older PowerPC processor Mac, Snow Leopard will [...]
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It’s been announced by Apple (and everyone else) that the next version of Apple OS X (Snow Leopard) 10.6 ships this Friday, August 28th. Apple is taking pre-orders as of this morning at the apple store.
I’ve already placed a family pack pre-order via Amazon, since I’ll have a number of computers to upgrade. If your [...]
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Apple has released Security Update 2009-004 v1.0 for OS X (Leopard). This update is recommended for all users and improves the security of Mac OS X. The update is approximately 10 Mb and can be installed via Software Update.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.
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Apple has released the next Leopard OS X 10.5.8 update. According to Apple:
The 10.5.8 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac, as well as specific fixes for:
compatibility and reliability issues when joining AirPort networks.
an issue [...]
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Apple held the keynote address for their World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) today at 10am PST with the following announcements:
Updated MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops;
Safari 4.0 (non-beta) released for Mac/PC;
Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) for Intel Mac’s coming in September 2009. Upgrade from Leopard $29 and family pack upgrade for $49;
iPhone OS 3.0 [...]
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It’ll soon be time for the 2009 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), June 8-12, in San Francisco. I’m a long time Mac user, general fan and gadget geek so I always watch these events with interest.
The WWDC annual event is one of two major events where Apple often announces new products. A new iPhone and [...]
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This evening Apple released OS X 10.5.7 update which is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac. On my Mac Pro the update was listed as 449 MB. A system restart is required.
According to Apple documents this [...]
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Apple released iTunes 8.1 and Front Row 2.1.7 updates tonight.
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Yesterday I restructured our home network to included separate 802.11n and 802.11b/g wireless segments. I had two main reasons for doing this:
Over the last several months there has been a wireless boom in our neighborhood. Where I once could pick-up three wireless networks I now, on a good night, can locate six to eight. These [...]
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SoFoBoMo '09
