LindauerMacs Blog

June 2008

.Mac morphs into MobileMe, with Push as it’s big feature.

June 9, 2008

The venerable and much-abused .Mac service, considered overpriced by some and an utter necessity by others, is growing up. Oh, and it works with PCs too, so if you have Macs and PCs to sync, it works. Next month, it will become MobileMe, with features that may make it more palatable to the people who [...]

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New 3G, GPS iPhone announced – Faster and Cheaper!

June 9, 2008

WWDC was in fact the platform for the big announcement. The rumor mill had it right, too. The new iPhone will work on Edge, WiFi and 3G networks, selecting the fastest network seamlessly. It will have built-in GPS. It will have a more robust battery. It will be $199 for the 8GB version, $299 for [...]

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This week’s Utility Roundup

June 4, 2008

Force Eject 1.0 can be used to eject any removable disk that the system will not eject. It’s freeware, and can also be found on Apple’s site. Spotless 2.0.1 is not free, but is fairly inexpensive at $16.95. It does only one thing: it enables and disables Spotlight content indexing with the click of a [...]

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Problems adding music or importing an audio CD to iTunes?

June 4, 2008

This Apple Support document dated May 30, 2008 (Article TS1387) discusses a problem some users have had adding music to their iTunes library, particularly when importing an audio CD. Symptoms You get this alert message: “Attempting to copy to the disk ‘your hard drive name’ failed. You do not have enough access privileges for this [...]

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Zooom/2 is my favorite new utility

June 4, 2008

I just bought Zooom/2, a nifty little utility to move, resize or refocus to another window without a click. According Coderage Software, the new version, 2.2.0, adds window edge snapping, enhanced control of Magnetics feature, an improved information overflow window, a clearer UI, Ignore list improvements and meaningful performance changes… Also from their site: What [...]

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Adobe Acrobat 9 released – CS4 coming soon!

June 4, 2008

Adobe has made Acrobat 9 available for pre-order, with a free trial available soon.This will be a major update coming in 3 flavors: Pro Extended, Pro and Standard. Personally, I already pre-ordered CS4 which will include Acrobat 9 Pro, based on a quick look at Dreamweaver CS4 beta. More on that later… Adobe’s Acrobat Family [...]

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