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by Charlie Fletcher, Inside Mac Games
Its shortcomings do not completely outweigh the basic fun of playing Scrabble through an obstacle course.
by Rick Broida, PC World
by Adam C. Engst, TidBITS
Consultant Scott Rose has isolated a potentially dangerous bug in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard that could cause data loss for people who rely on the Dock as a launcher for in-progress documents. The steps to reproduce the problem aren't likely to bite careful users, but it's easy enough to see someone accidentally stumbling into the situation, as did one of Scott's clients.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
It took the music industry the better part of a decade to figure this out. I’m hopeful the movie studios are a little quicker on the uptake.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
New to the 3.2 release are new features like the ability to edit document properties, including author, company, copyright and other fields; new backup options; control over smart quotes on a per-language basis; and a preference to choose the default file format for new documents.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
by Lonnie Lazar, Cult Of Mac
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
Dear Apple,
I've bought iLife '09, all excited with the advertised new features like Faces in iPhoto '09, all ready to see all the face detecting and face recognizing that you've promised. After waiting for the installation and the rebooting to be done, I happily launch iPhoto '09, and discovered, sadly, that more waiting was in order. There were hundreds more minutes before I could start using Faces in iPhoto '09 as your software started scanning through my photos.
Where's my instant gratification?
You should have sneaked an update to iPhoto '08, and start doing all that scanning in the background a few weeks prior to the launch of the new version, little-by-little. Then, when your customers install and launch iPhoto '09, everything will be super-fast and super-magical, and every blogger out there can start to rain praises on you so-many-more minutes earlier.
Thank you. (With tongue somewhere in cheek.)
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Postbox — based on technology developed by Mozilla — is aimed at users looking for new ways to organize, locate and use the data that’s sent to them by e-mail.
by Mac Versus PC: The Blog
You might already know that wireless connectivity and screen brightness are some of the major factors that limit battery life, but what else can you do to reach 8 hours of battery life?
by Apple Gazette
by Surfbits.com
by Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld
Windows, Mac OS, and Linux are all getting smaller. What does that mean for you?
by Nick Spence, Macworld UK
MacHeist has launched MacHeist 3, the redesigned software promotion site aimed at offering bargain Mac software bundles while raising money for charity.
by Nick Spence, Macworld UK
Maintain has updated its Mac OS X utility Cocktail, which adds the ability to clear potentially harmful files such as 'most common Trojans' or other files that may harm your system in any way.
by Stephen Baker, BusinessWeek
I think Genius reflects the normal human way of dealing with complexity. It reaches for a simple rule in the beginning. These people are like this, those ones like that. And then, hopefully, it starts to learn.
by Steven Burke, ChannelWeb
The ability of PearC and Psystar to keep one step ahead of Apple's ever-vigilant legal eagles is likely to spark more companies to brave the Mac clone waters.
by Jochen Wolters, O'Reilly Digital Media
by Bruce Tognazzini, Ask Tog
How a simple idea is causing complexity.
by Steve Casimiro, The Adventure Life
The iPhone itself is already on its way to becoming indispensable and will become even more so—these 25 outdoor apps are part of the reason why.
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