Tag: OS X
WWDC Registration Opens. Updated: …Annnnnd Closed.
Registration for Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference, known better as WWDC, has opened. The event will be held in San Francisco this June 11-15 and...
How To De-Suckify Your OS X Dashboard
OS X is full of cool and useful features, and yet Dashboard remains the unloved genetic experiment kept in a secret room with a tire...
New Mac Java Virus Delivered Via MS Word
It’s sort of hard to believe, but it appears Mac OS X is being victimized by another trojan virus, this time delivered by Microsoft Word....
Customize OS X With This Giant List Of 63 Defaults Hacks For The Terminal
Customizing OS X isn’t the easiest thing to do if you’re the type of person who likes to tinker and make things your own. There...
Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition Officially Coming To The Mac
So, you’re excited to play the new Baldur’s Gate remake, right? Stabbing dragons, storming dungeons, and having a good time. Today, we have news that...
Search DuckDuckGo from Safari’s address bar in OS X
Are you fed-up with Google? Do you hate it that for most search terms the first two pages of results are nothing but useless ads...
Stop prying eyes by turning off read receipts in Messages for OS X
The worst part of digital communication is how incredibly easy it is to track. While you used to be able to play off your lack...
VLC 2.0 breaks DVD decryption in Handbrake
As we reported, VLC 2.0 shipped last week. With it comes a new UI and experimental Blu-Ray support. Sadly, one of the changes with this...
Messages Beta: A review
With the announcement of Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion today, Apple also released a beta of their brand new chat client for OS X...
AirParrot streams your Mac’s display to the Apple TV
Sometimes serendipity boggles my mind. Last night, a former co-worker of mine pinged me on Facebook to find out if there was any good way...
Double Fine crowd sources funding for new adventure game, likely coming to OS X and iOS
Double Fine, the company behind such beloved games as Psychonauts and Brütal Legend, has decided to crowd source their funding of a brand new adventure...
Engineer reveals that Apple is tinkering with OS X on ARM
A former Apple intern, now a full-fledged Apple engineer, used the experience of porting the underpinnings of OS X to an ARM architecture as the...
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 to arrive in February
“Expecto Funtronum!”Harry Potter fans will forgive this little wordplay, as it is pretty appropriate in this case: Feral Interactive has recently announced the upcoming release...
New Lion 10.7.3 beta seeds to developers
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 is on the way! If you’re a registered Mac Developer on Apple’s development site, you can now download the latest...
Sparrow gets cloud based attachments, image blocking
Sparrow has been updated to version 1.5 today, and amongst other tweaks, the update brings with it the ability to sync your attachments to the...
Command-Space to my Heart: Alfred hits 1.0
Popular application launcher Alfred has officially hit 1.0. While the basic application launching is still completely free, most of the new and interesting things are...
OS X Lion sees relatively little adoption so far
Apple’s “most advanced” operating system, OS X 10.7, which is better known as Lion, saw great numbers on release day but has since settled into...
Quick Tip: Locking your desktop with your screen saver
Okay, what gives? I just spent the last five minutes trying to remember how to get my screen saver to lock my desktop in Lion...