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Xcode 4.4 and Safari 5.2 seeds pushed to developers

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

In addition to the third developer's preview of OS X Mountain Lion, developers on Wednesday also received new builds of Xcode 4.4 and Safari 5.2. AppleInsider has release notes for both, with Xcode 4.4 having enhancements for Objective-C language features, improved support for 2011 C++ standard ...

Apple is giving away Snow Leopard to MobileMe customers

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

In an effort to get the remaining MobileMe customers upgraded to Lion and iCloud, Apple is offering a free upgrade to OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard for those still running OS X 10.5 Leopard. Macgasm posted pictures of the missive, which directs MobileMe customers to this link. After signing in, those ...

OS X animations used to make abstract art

by Mike Schramm (Apr 16th, 2012)

Emilio Gomariz is an artist who's used the window animations in OS X to create some pretty amazing abstract art. You can look at the YouTube videos to see just what he's done, but my favorite is the one above, called Twist Choreography. To create it, Gomariz opened up a series of long, thin ...

Apple seeds third beta of 10.7.4 to developers

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 13th, 2012)

The latest developer's build of OS X 10.7.4 is now available to developers at the Mac Developer Center. Build 11E46 was seeded as a 1.4 GB combo update or a 716 MB delta update. It comes a month after the first seed of the latest update to Lion was pushed to developers. There are no known issues ...

Friday Favorite: Audacity 2.0 delivers free audio editing for Mac

by Mel Martin (Apr 13th, 2012)

Audacity, the venerable and much loved open source audio editor, has a 2.0 release out (as of March 13) in versions for OS X, Windows and GNU/Linux. Here's a rundown of what has changed: Many effects are significantly improved, especially Equalization, Noise Removal and Normalize. Vocal ...

Cobook is an alternative address book for your Mac

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 13th, 2012)

If you're looking for an alternative address book for your Mac, you should take a closer look at Cobook. It's been featured by Lifehacker, TechCrunch and most recently Swiss Miss. It's defining features are its simple UI, intelligent search and social network integration which updates your ...

Developers chime in on six months of using iCloud in apps

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 13th, 2012)

It's been six months since Apple released iOS 5 and launched iCloud. During this time, iCloud has grown to over 85 million users and developers are integrating the cloud service into a variety of apps. To find out what developers think about Apple's push into the cloud, you should read this ...

Java for OS X 2012-003 update kills Flashback malware, available now

by Steven Sande (Apr 12th, 2012)

Just this morning we noted that Apple had not yet come out with a tool to kill the Flashback malware, and that Kaspersky and F-Secure had both developed their own free tools. This afternoon, Apple released Java for OS X 2012-003 to remove "most common variants of the Flashback ...

Re-envisioning iTunes: How Mountain Lion portends the future

by Erica Sadun (Apr 11th, 2012)

Victor has been promising to write a post about iTunes and how it fails to live up to OS X's potential for over a year. Fortunately, the guys over at Macworld sprang to the rescue, discussing how Apple might want to save their syncing ship. Since I can't rebut Victor's non-existent post, as I ...

Friday TUAW Clinic: Spring clean your Mac with Erica and Steve

by Steven Sande (Apr 5th, 2012)

Spring is the traditional time to shake off the clutter of winter and do some cleaning. With Mac owners, it's a good time to think about doing the same thing -- getting rid of the junk that piles up on your machine, cleaning out excess log files, etc... To get you prepared for some spring Mac ...

How to find/remove the Flashback trojan

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 5th, 2012)

According to Russian antivirus firm Dr. Web, over 600,000 Macs worldwide are infected with the Mac flashback trojan. The trojan can be installed if you visit a malicious website, and it will attempt to connect your Mac to a botnet. Fifty-seven percent of infected machines are located in the ...

Daily Mac app: Battery Health monitors your Mac's battery

by Mel Martin (Apr 2nd, 2012)

With all the talk of battery life of iPhones and iPads it's easy to forget that your laptop battery needs some attention every so often. My laptop battery is pretty old, and it doesn't last as long as it used to. No surprise there, but I'd like to easily quantify its condition. That's where a ...

Lion's Auto Save vs. Save As

by Dave Caolo (Mar 29th, 2012)

Apple's OS X Lion introduced Auto Save, and eliminated the Save As feature from several apps as a result. Not everyone is happy about the switch, including Pierre at Betalogue: I have already talked about the totally unnecessary (in my view) elimination of the 'Save As...' command in Apple ...

Macs are being spied on just like Windows machines

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 29th, 2012)

Any tech savvy Windows user is familiar with the term backdoor trojan; either they've been infected with one themselves or know someone who has. Now, it's time for Mac users, especially those who work for entities that are targets for corporate or military espionage, to become more aware of ...

Daily Mac App: DragonDrop provides a Finder caddy for your drag-and-drop files

by Erica Sadun (Mar 28th, 2012)

Sometimes there are problems you didn't even know you had -- and solutions that make your life so much better. DragonDrop is one of those solutions. You know when you have to drag items between folders and you end up juggling multiple Finder windows? It's such a pain getting both windows ...