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Slidevana provides pro design templates for Keynote

by Erica Sadun (Feb 9th, 2012)

Slidevana is a curious thing. This US$69 bundle offers a set of professionally designed slides. These templates map out the kinds of data most speakers want to communicate, providing specific elements you can customize. Called "Dark," this first release includes a clean presentation style that ...

Hacksugar: Live AirPlay mirroring to Mac from iOS

by Erica Sadun (Feb 8th, 2012)

iOS developer David Stanfill of Napkin Studio has been looking for a better way to demo his iOS apps during online meetings, as well as to record live videos of the UI as the apps run. (We've rigged up various hardware approaches to do this, although none of them reach the highest quality ...

EFI Firmware Update brings Lion Internet Recovery to 2010-model Macs

by Chris Rawson (Feb 7th, 2012)

Apple has released three EFI Firmware Updates for 2010-model Macs, including the iMac, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro. This update enables Lion Internet Recovery on those older Macs. Introduced in OS X Lion alongside the mid-2011 updates to the MacBook Air and Mac mini, Internet Recovery enables ...

Apple intern thesis bears on porting Darwin to ARMv5 chips

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 7th, 2012)

Two years ago, Tristan Schaap joined Apple's Platform Technologies Group as an intern. During his 12-week stint with the Core OS division, he worked on a project to get a piece of Mac OS X running on an ARM processor, says a report by iMore. Most people were not aware of this project until ...

OS X 10.7.3 includes new high-res pointer icons, rampant speculation ensues

by Chris Rawson (Feb 7th, 2012)

Soon after the 10.7.3 update to OS X Lion, people started finding subtle differences in the pointer icons for OS X (hat tip to Daring Fireball). Specifically, the link, grab, copy, and screenshot pointers have all been updated with slightly new iterations for the first time since OS X 10.2, ...

Daily Mac app: Droplr

by Mel Martin (Feb 6th, 2012)

Do you want to share files easily and quickly? Then take a look at Droplr, which has been around for some time and recently hit the Mac App Store in an improved version 2. Droplr is free and easy way to share images, documents and other files. You can run it from a web browser or the Mac app which ...

Apple FileVault 2 encryption cracked, but don't panic

by Steven Sande (Feb 3rd, 2012)

FileVault 2 is a feature of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion that provides a way to encrypt a full disk drive so that it can only be used by those who know a password ... until now, that is. Passware, a company that makes forensic software used to recover lost passwords or open encrypted files to police and ...

OS X 10.7.3 causing CUI errors for some, Combo Update recommended

by Michael Rose (Feb 2nd, 2012)

It's not a good thing when a simple point release of Apple's desktop OS causes a flurry of error reports with a central theme of "I just installed the 10.7.3 version of Lion and now nothing works." Last night and this morning, threads began popping up on Apple's support forum and elsewhere ...

OS X Lion 10.7.3 released with Safari 5.1.3, Wi-Fi bug fix

by Chris Rawson (Feb 1st, 2012)

The third update to OS X Lion, 10.7.3, has been released and is now available in Software Update. A list of some of 10.7.3's fixes are below. Of potentially greatest interest is the fix that purports to "resolve a Wi-Fi connection issue when waking from sleep" -- I know both of my Macs have fallen ...

Daily Mac App: AirBeam

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 23rd, 2012)

If you have an iPhone and iPad or Mac, you can set up an indoor surveillance system. All you need to get it going is AirBeam, which is software that turns your iPhone into a spy cam and your Mac desktop into a remote viewing station. Setup is simple -- just install AirBeam on all your hardware and ...

Discount on 360|MacDev and a chance to win a free pass

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 20th, 2012)

Last year's 360|MacDev was filled with good food and great company, plus sessions with some of the best developers in the world. The annual event in Denver is one of the must-attend Mac developer conferences out there if you want to learn from the best. This year's conference is almost upon us, but ...

iBooks Author makes its debut today for creating ebooks (Updated)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 19th, 2012)

Apple has announced the free iBooks Author, an OS X application for creating any type of ebook. As with Pages, a number of templates are available for authors to use to get started with making a book. With a tap, they can be filled with stock text. Elements such as audio and video can be ...

GE Executive says adoption of Apple products helps recruitment

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 19th, 2012)

Last year, GE launched a pilot program that lets its employees choose between a Mac notebook and a PC desktop. The program is not well-known, and only 1,000 employees have chosen a Mac over a PC. This number is expected to rise as more employees become aware of this option, and new employees ...

Daily Mac App: PixFit

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 18th, 2012)

Last week, we looked at SnapRuler, a tool for measuring the dimensions of an object on your screen. This week, we are taking a look at PixFit, a similar, but less expensive tool for taking measurements. Whether it's a square image or an irregularly-shaped block of text, PixFit will give you the ...

OS X Lion 10.7.3 build 11D46 seeded to developers (updated)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 18th, 2012)

The next Lion seed is out for developers. OS X Lion 10.7.3 build 11D46 is a 1.2 GB combo update / 989 MB delta update file. This build focuses on iCloud document storage, Address Book, iCal, Mail, Spotlight and Safari. The last seed was released a week ago. Apple released 10.7.2 to the general ...