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Skip Leopard’s Security Lockdown on Downloaded Files
Well, ever since we upgrade to Leopard, we’ve been seeing that “security” warning that your File “is an application which was downloaded form the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?” This happens every time after downloading a file and attempting to execute or un-archive it.
I’m sure that for most of us, we’re cautious enough to know what we downloaded and that we wanted to execute it without Leopard coming in between us and our prey. If you’re one of those, Hendrik have a solution on how you can Lift the Leopard download quarantine.
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MacWorld - iPhone and iPod Touch enhanced, introduces Time Capsule, Apple TV untethers from Mac, iTunes Movie Rentals
Yesterday’s Keynote of Steve Jobs at MacWorld dragged everybody to the Internet, not just Apple fans but many other Internet enthusiast. It even pull down Twitter during the keynote. I downloaded the MacBook Air guided Tour and just finished watching it in its full glory and here are the few words that slipped off my lips - awesome, damn, jesus, holy cow, oh! man - I think I seriously need to get a MacBook Air.
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MacBook Air - world’s thinnest notebook
Apple unveils “the thinnest notebook in the world” - the MacBook Air. Apple went and looked at most of the thinnest notebooks - Sony TZ series, for example and tried to distill the best of all of them –
- ~3 lbs
- 0.16 to 0.76 inches thin, 12.8 inches wide and 8.95 inches deep
- 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display that has a 1280 × 800 pixel resolution
- full sized MacBook-style black keyboard with Ambient light sensor
- built-in iSight
- multi-touch trackpad (Move a window by double-tap and move. Rotate a photo by pivoting your index finger around your thumb)
- 80GB drive as standard, 64GB SSD as an option
- 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo as standard chip which operates with 4MB of on-chip shared L2 cache running at full processor speed, and uses an 800MHz frontside bus (1.8 GHz as an upgrade)
- 45w MagSafe
- 1 USB 2.0 port
- Micro-DVI
- 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.1/EDR
- 5 hour battery life
- 2GB of 667MH DDR2 SDRAM
Google introduced new enhanced mobile interface for iPhone
Well in time for the MacWorld 2008, Google have announced enhancements to their services for the iPhone. The new look and feel for the mobile version of Gmail for the iPhone is just the eye candy to the faster and more fluid power of the new gmail for Mobile.
Google, after reviewing lots of meaningful and insightful feedback from iPhone users, have addressed some of them in the current version –
- Customization of tabs: ow you can customize the tabs you want on Google. Go to the More tab and press “Custom tabs” to select your favorite three Google mobile products.
- New and improved Gmail: The latest version of Gmail delivers messages to your inbox without the need for you to refresh it. Also, if you need to write an email, we help you complete the address — you only need to type out the first few letters of your contact.
- New and improved Calendar: A calendar can be one of the most important things on a phone. Now Google Calendar is faster and has a month view.
- iGoogle for the iPhone: One of the most common requests to date has been to include personalized modules. Google have announced a new iPhone-optimized version of iGoogle that mobilizes all of the modules you know and love.
How to squeeze the best out of FREE NetNewsWire
A day before Newsgator made their RSS Suite totally FREE, Amit did a review of Newsgator’s FeedDemon (Windows RSS Feed Reader), which got me thinking about NetNewsWire. Let me give you a brief about my RSS Feed Reader usage before suggesting ‘How to squeeze the best out of FREE NetNewsWire’.
I have been using RSS Feed Readers in a way or the other ever since the hay days of the blogging revolution in the early 2000s. While on Windows, I graduated to a full fledged RSS Reader with Nick Bradbury’s FeedDemon ever since its very early days. Bradbury Software, Nick’s company that made FeedDemon was acquired by NewsGator Technologies in May 2005 (I think Nick works with Newsgator at present). My FeedDemon license was alive in all those acquisitions, upgrades and I was a happy user of FeedDemon all along.
Apple unveils the fastest Mac: 8-Core Mac Pro
In a rather rare and surprising pre-Macworld Expo move (Macworld Expo 2008 will be from January 15 to 18 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco), Apple unveiled a retooled Mac Pro Desktop machine and a new Xserve server - calling them the fastest Macs ever. The ultra-end Mac Pro features Advanced Micro Devices ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics card with 256MB standard memory. The new 45-nanometer quad-core Xeon processor from Intel, can be equipped with up to 32GB of RAM and as much as 4TB of Disc Drive Storage.
More power with less power
Inside the new Mac Pro is the latest technology from Intel - Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown” processors. These processors run at blazingly fast speeds up to 3.2GHz.
muCommander, a lightweight, cross-platform file manager
muCommander is a lightweight, cross-platform twin-pane file manager featuring a Norton Commander style interface and running on any operating system with Java support (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, *BSD, Solaris).
muCommander is a Freeware but you can donate if you feel good about it.
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Axiotron Modbook- First Apple-Authorized Tablet Mac
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Axiotron ModbookThe first Apple-Authorized Tablet Mac
Apple offers free upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard
You still don’t have Leopard!
And, you purchased a qualifying Macintosh Computer on or after October 1, 2007, then you can get a Free upgrade to Apple’s latest OS X 10.5 - Leopard. The offer is valid till 26th January, 2008.
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