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Daily Mac App: FlashMount quickly mounts disk images

by TJ Luoma (Dec 30th, 2011)

DMG files are often used when distributing Mac software outside the Mac App Store. While DMGs can be confusing to new users, I like them because they allow me to keep an original, unmodified version of whatever program I have downloaded. About the only drawback for me is that some DMGs come with ...

Mac 101: 7 tips for Data Privacy Day 2009

by Robert Palmer (Jan 28th, 2009)

Today is Data Privacy Day, a global initiative to highlight information security rights and practices, especially among teens, professionals, corporations, and the government. As part of the celebration, TUAW (along with our sister blog Download Squad) has seven good ideas for you about how to keep ...

iDMG

by Cory Bohon (May 28th, 2008)

If you have ever created a DMG image using Disk Utility, you know how hard it can be. iDMG hopes to make this process easier. This application allows you to easily drag and drop files, applications, or whatever you choose onto iDMG, select a few options and hit the "Create button." The only ...

Tutorial: Customize your disk images

by Erica Sadun (Dec 6th, 2006)

MurphyMac has posted a video tutorial showing how to customize your dmg containers to make them look more professional. The tutorial walks you through the steps of creating a disk image, adding a background graphic, and saving the result for production and distribution. A fully customized dmg file ...

The best DMG design

by Dave Caolo (Sep 14th, 2006)

Here's a clever idea. I'll admit that I'm superficial enough to think more of a given application if its installer is on a well-designed disk image. AppZapper and Delicious Library immediately come to mind. While I simply admire them from afar, blogger Roustem Karimov is on a mission to find the ...

Make a Delivery Automator app

by David Chartier (Apr 7th, 2006)

I haven't tested this yet, but Make a Delivery sounds like a handy little Automator action that will create a .dmg file from the Finder items you have selected, then attach that .dmg to an email. One quirky thing, however, is that you have to move a resource folder into your Applications directory; ...