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Final Cut Pro 6.6 Update released

June 23, 2009

” About Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 This update fixes problems with real-time playback in Final Cut Pro with Mac Pro (Early 2009) models and Xserve (Early 2009) models. For more information about this release, see the Release Notes.” Improved Real-Time Playback on Certain Mac Pro and Xserve Models. Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 improves real-time playback [...]

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Tip: Double-up the backups instead of backing up the backups.

June 4, 2009

From MacFixIt today, 06.04.09 Backups have always been a cumbersome thing for most home computer users to take the time to set up and maintain. Before Leopard, you had to install a third-party backup program and deal with proprietary formats, data structure, and compression. Apple recognized these problems with the implementation of Time Machine, and [...]

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Get some space back from iTunes

March 24, 2009

Rob Griffiths at Macworld.com published an article today that made my jaw drop. Why didn’t I think of that? Here’s a great way to get some precious megabytes back, if you are short of storage space, from your iTunes installation. Updates that never die iTunes downloads and installs software updates for iPods and iPhones connected [...]

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Safari 4 beta Tweaks

March 2, 2009

MacFixIt has some great info re: Safari 4 beta. Below are links with a brief synopsis of the articles: Reverting Safari’s Tab Behavior The full article can be found here. One of the biggest gripes I’ve heard about the new Safari 4 beta is the new tab behavior. Safari 4 may be faster rendering Javascript, [...]

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Safari 4 Beta – Pros and Cons and More

March 1, 2009

Safari 4 beta – is it worth a try? There’s a lot of buzz about the Safari 4 beta released to the public this past week. Here are a few bits of info gathered around the web, to help you decide if you want to try the beta version, or to give you a chance [...]

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Review: iLife ’09

February 4, 2009

Macintouch as a new review of iLife ’09. It’s worth a read, discussing new features and strengths and weaknesses of the new apps. I’m short of time and won’t go into detail here. iLife and iWork ’09 are being reported on all over the web and lots of users are having ”problems“. Many are simply [...]

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iCal and Entourage Duplicates

January 2, 2009

Tired of seeing appointments reproduce? No, they’re not cockroachs. They just seem like it sometimes. Macworld.com published an article by Ted Landau today, with an interesting description and solution for the annoying duplication of appointments. If you are using Entourage for your contact and calendar app, and want to sync with your iPnone or MobileMe [...]

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iTunes 8.0.2 released

November 21, 2008

iTunes 8.0.2… various problems reported Apple released a new iTunes version. I downloaded it and installed without problems, but many are reporting various issues. MacInTouch has several reports today, ranging from possible permissions needing to be repaired, mail deletion (using AOL) problems, broken Internet radio apps (WunderRadio, BBC iPlayer for example). I noticed that the [...]

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Safari 3.2 problems continue… for some

November 17, 2008

Safari 3.2 a disaster in progress? I use a few Internet plugins, like Glims and AcidSearch, and didn’t realize that Safari 3.2 would be so unfriendly to them. Previously, plugins would simply not load (with an error message) if they weren’t compatible. With the new Safari release, the app crashed instead. (the latest Pithhelmet release [...]

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Safari 3.2 update… caution!

November 14, 2008

Apple released the Safari 3.2 update yesterday, and I downloaded and installed it immediately, ’cause I am your crash-test dummy. I crashed. ANY add-ons to Safari, including Concierge (bookmarks helper), PithHelmet (ad-blocking), AcidSearch (search enhancement), Glims and SAFT(several enhancements) seem to be causing crashes. Even without add-ons, some are experiencing crashes. Before installing the update, [...]

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