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Nasty Surprise Inside a Portable Drive
myRichTexts Word Processor
Migration Options For OS X
Death of Film: Last Roll of Kodachrome Processed
How To Create A New Mac OS X Dock Stack
MacBook Pro, iPad, and iPhone 4 Finalists In T3 Gadget Awards 2010 Tech Brand of the Year
Age Of The Fanboy Drawing To A Close
Inside The Heads Of Android Fanboys
Five Free Online Services That Store, Sync And Share Your Files
Elite-AL mini Price Drops - Small Footprint, Big Savings
Google To Rev Up Chrome Release Schedule
Firefox 3.6.8 Browser Released
MailForge 2.0.3 Eudora-Like Email Client Released
Nasty Surprise Inside a Portable Drive
Macworld's Ted Landau says:
Recently, someone I know called me with a serious problem with his Western Digital My Passport portable external drive. The drive, which was only a month old and had worked perfectly until the fateful day, failed to show up anywhere in any Mac software. It did not mount in the Finder. It did not show up in Disk Utility or other third-party repair utilities. As far as the Mac was concerned, the drive did not exist. This meant there was no way to repair the drive or otherwise attempt to recover data.
....The root cause of the symptom, according to my theory, was a failure of the drive's USB port....
Assuming I was correct, I came up with what seemed to be a viable solution: Open up the unit's plastic case and remove the connection from the SATA port on the drive to the USB port on the case....
Unfortunately... there was no SATA interface to be found.....Western Digital had eliminated the SATA interface from these latest Passport drives.
For the full report visit here:
http://snurl.com/zu8lm
myRichTexts Word Processor
[Press Release]
myRichTexts offers an intuitive way to just focus on writing without to worry about your documents, text files, backups, or how to regain them. myRichTexts takes care of it all for you in a self-explanatory and user-friendly way, saving your documents in the background and creatuing a backup at every start-up if you wish.
All of your documents are just one click away at the left-hand side menu and completely searchable. For your convenience, myRichTexts allows you to add tags to your documents, which, in turn, can be added to your Spotlight searches and grouped into 'Smart Folders' as well; thus, you will never again lose or misplace another text document.
You can also easily sync all your documents/entries/writings across multiple Macs. myRichTexts supports iDisk/Dropbox sync, will automatically save and backup all your documents/entries in the background and even supports the use of OpenMeta tags.
Work on multiple documents with ease, open them in a second and independent view, store individual notes to each entry and merge/combine documents/entries for printing and export them with a single click. myRichTexts offers comforts you know from other mature word-processors like rich text formatting, word- and character count, statistics, fullscreen, customizable defaults and even printouts with footer.
Additionally myRichTexts has some nifty goodies on board to help you get all your writings better done even perhaps with a smile, such as Document/Layout preview, Define words, Word frequency statistics , Highlight text, Mark text spots as inline comment and more.
Key Features
• rich text formatting
• built-in document management
• smart folders for grouping
• combine/merge entries for print/export
• export/print single/arranged/all
• export/print with date/title/notes
• footer for page numbers/title/date/author
• statistics | preview | word frequency | etc.
• customize colors | font | size | margins | etc.
• inline comments | highlight text spots
• fullscreen mode
• zoom to easily change the view scale
• auto-save
• auto-backup
• iDisk | Dropbox sync
• tag your texts
• OpenMeta | Spotlight support
• iTunes-like search
• files | documents browser with Quick Look
• all your texts at your fingertips
• apply notes to each text | entry
• word/character count
• supports .txt | .rtf | .doc | .docx | .xml | .html
• lots of more nifty features
New in version 2.4
• added files section
• added Pages-like search feature
• improved printing of footer/page numbers
• improved smart folders
• fixed some bugs and glitches
System requirements:
Mac OS 10.5.8 and up
myRichTexts sells for $19.95
For more information, visit:
http://myownapp.com/applications/myrichtexts/myrichtexts.html
Migration Options For OS X
MacFixIt's Topher Kessler says:
When you purchase a new Mac and are ready to migrate your data, applications, and user accounts to it, Apple has its Migration Assistant that should work just fine for most people; however, sometimes you can run into problems with the Migration Assistant, so there are several other options that can also do the job.
To read more, click here.
http://snurl.com/zuqsg
Death of Film: Last Roll of Kodachrome Processed
Wired's Charlie Sorrel reports:
What do you know about Dwayne s Photo Service of Parsons, Kansas? It is the place where the very last roll of the Kodachrome was processed.
Kodachrome, the slide-film that inspired songs, was discontinued by Kodak last year at 74 years of age....
The last roll was shot by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry, who shot the 36 exposures in New York.... The pictures will be part of a National Geographic piece in the near future.....
To read more, click here.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/death-of-film-last-roll-of-kodachrome-processed/
For Charles W. Moore's musings on the death of Kodachrome, see:
http://lowendmac.com/misc/09mr/kodachrome-farewell.html
How To Create A New Mac OS X Dock Stack
AppleTell's Katie Gatto says:
Stacks are a really handy way for you to access everything you want on your Mac without having to navigate though your hard drive. By helping you to quickly get to the files you regularly use, stacks can make your school or work life much simpler. They're also very easy to set up and organize. Just follow these instructions and you will have a custom stack in no time.
You can check it out at:
http://snurl.com/zu8yy
MacBook Pro, iPad, and iPhone 4 Finalists In T3 Gadget Awards 2010 Tech Brand of the Year
T3 says:
No list of top tech brands would be complete without Apple. From the iPhone to the iPad, the last year has seen Apple keep on winning.
Apple continues it's market dominance, and with the launch of the iPad a whole new way of life has been created - according to Mr Jobs.
Originally known for its sleek, Jonathan Ive-designed Mac computers, Apple has shamed the collective mobile industry with its sudden iPhone dominance, and the launch of the iPad has seen a whole new front open....
With the iPhone 4 launch interest already reaching near hysteria, it's certain that Apple will continue to be one of the top brands of the year.
Apple Macbook Pro
This is Apple's best-looking laptop to date. Wrought from a single shaving of aluminium, the latest MacBook Pro fills its boots with power-user features, including a 17-inch, LED-lit screen, 2.6GHz dual-core processor and 512MB Nvidia graphics card. An intelligent lithium-polymer battery keeps it motoring for eight hours.
Voting closes on 16 September 2010.
Your shortlist vote will count towards the overall winner of each category, alongside our expert panel's votes and the winners will be announced on the 11th October. The grand prize is a MacBook Pro
You can read more (and vote) at:
http://awards.t3.com/the-categories/tech-brand-of-the-year/Apple
and
http://snurl.com/zuquj
Age Of The Fanboy Drawing To A Close
ZNet blogger Adrian Kingsley-Hughes says:
In this profession you come across all sorts of fanboys (and for that matter fangirls & let s not be sexist here, but for the sake of brevity I ll use the term fanboy in a gender-neutral way). But the age of the fanboy is drawing to a close....
....for Apple fanboys there's the double-whammy of not only realizing that that the club is over, but in also discovering that Apple sold them out by shifting focus away from Mac OS and its war with Microsoft and moved on to iOS and the far more lucrative cellphone and consumer electronics market.....
To read more, click here.
http://snurl.com/zu95z
Inside The Heads Of Android Fanboys
InfoWorld's Galen Gruman says:
The fanboys are riled up - the Android fanboys, that is. Earlier this week, InfoWorld ran my "mobile deathmatch" face-off between Google's Android OS and Apple's iOS. I got a bunch of strongly worded emails, some bordering on nasty, for my conclusion that Android is basically harder to use than iOS. Those comments, as well as ones from previous stories, reveal a lot about the psyche of "fandroids": They like intricate tech that requires mastery of secrets and tricks, much like dedicated gamers do....
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/inside-the-heads-android-fanboys-264
Five Free Online Services That Store, Sync And Share Your Files
Computerworld's Howard Wen says:
"Syncing to the cloud" may sound like marketing-speak, but it's actually a convenient thing to do: Upload your important files to an online server and access them from any of your other computers and mobile devices....
For this roundup, I chose five services that store, sync and share your files in the cloud: DriveHQ, Dropbox, OpenDrive, SpiderOak and ZumoDrive. I reviewed them using their desktop front-end clients, and I used only the free account versions of these services (because everybody likes free stuff). Most of these also offer paid upgrades; in those cases, I list the other options that are available.....
You can check it out at:
http://snurl.com/zu9dj
Elite-AL mini Price Drops - Small Footprint, Big Savings
The OWC NewsFeed says:
Last week, we had a price drop on the award-winning OWC Mercury On-The-Go. If you ve been paying attention, you ll have noticed that a price reduction on one model is often followed by price drops on similar models. Such is the case here; this week, we re lowering prices on the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini .
The OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini is a smaller, portable, bus-powered version of our best selling and award winning Mercury Elite-AL Pro line of desktop solutions. Designed for performance, flexibility, reliability, and portability, the Elite-AL mini features FireWire 800/400, USB 2.0 and eSATA interfaces, measures in at only 5.5 3 x 3.8 3 x 1.1 3 and provides up to 1.0TB of high-performance portable capacity.
Other key features include:
• Performance Oxford-based bridge solution
• Two 1394B 9 pin, One USB 2.0, and One eSATA interface ports
• Large data buffer up to 32MB
• Fully bootable, ideal for applications, A/V, Backup (TimeMachine, Etc), Photos, Music, etc.
• Single cable Bus-Powerable via FireWire or USB 2.0
• Bus-Power via FireWire (or AC Adapter) for high-performance eSATA interface use.
• Attractive & compact shock resistant Aluminum design
• FireWire 800, USB 2.0, and eSATA flex cables ALL included
• Fully Mac & PC compatible
• Intech Hard Disk Speed Tools suite and Carbon Copy Cloner included
• 3 Year Warranty
Full retail versions of Prosoft DataBackup 3 for OS X (a $59.95 retail value) and NovaStor NovaBACKUP for Windows (a $49.95 retail value).
So now we know what makes these drives flexible, speedy, reliable, and portable. Now let's look at what really makes them a great value: their new, lower prices.
5400RPM models
• 250GB 5400RPM 8MB Buffer NOW $107.99 (a $12 drop)
• 320GB 5400RPM 8MB Buffer NOW $117.99 (a $12 drop)
• 500GB 5400RPM 8MB Buffer NOW $129.99 (a $20 drop)
• 640GB 5400RPM 8MB Buffer NOW $159.99 (a $20 drop)
• 750GB 5400RPM 8MB Buffer (*)(*)NEW(*)(*) $189.99
• 1.0TB 5200RPM 8MB Buffer NOW $269.99 (a $10 drop)
7200RPM models
• 320GB 7200RPM 16MB Buffer NOW $124.99 (a $15 drop)
• 500GB 7200RPM 16MB Buffer NOW $149.99 (a $28 drop)
NEW SSD Models Ultra High Performance, Ultra-Low Power, No Moving Parts, Data Rates of over 200MB/s!
• 60GB OTG Extreme SSD $299.99
• 120GB OTG Extreme SSD $459.99
• 240GB OTG Extreme SSD $749.99
Also Available: OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini Enclosure Kits, now from $74.99
For more information, visit:
http://snurl.com/zuqw0
Google To Rev Up Chrome Release Schedule
Computerworld's Gregg Keizer says:
Google on Thursday said it will pick up Chrome's release pace by issuing a new version of the browser about every six weeks. According to Anthony Laforge, a Chrome program manager, the new schedule will put a a new stable version of the browser in users hands roughly twice often as in the past. The picked-up pace will debut over the next few months.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/152894/2010/07/chrome.html?lsrc=rss_main
Firefox 3.6.8 Browser Released
New in version 3.6.8:
• Fixed a single stability issue affecting some pages containing plugins.
For more information, visit:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html
MailForge 2.0.3 Eudora-Like Email Client Released
New in version 2.0.3:
Mailbox Sorting:
• Option-Click any field to group emails by that criteria
Export:
• Added ability to save an email as a standards compliant email, or as a clean text file (File > Save As &)
• Fixes/Enhancements
Import:
• Fixed issue that could cause Filters to not be imported at all (*)(*)
• Fixed issue that could cause Filters to not be imported at all (*)(*)
• Fixed issue that could cause blank emails to be imported
• MailForge no longer insists the folder it imports from be named "Eudora Folder"
Mailbox Display:
• Improved speed when navigating emails via Message Window
• Fixed the View Emails / View Names functionality
Sorting:
• Improved performance when sorting mailboxes
Export:
• Added descriptive headers when saving email as text
Junk:
• MailForge now launches SpamSieve on open when integrating with SpamSieve
• Fixed bug that could cause emails to not be sent to SpamSieve for analysis
(*)(*)Since MailForge does not (as yet) support all the filtering options that Eudora did, some filters may still be imported with no direct correlation to a MailForge filter action.(*)(*)
For more information, visit:
http://www.infinitydatasystems.com/mailforge/index.html
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