Apple Inc.'s iPhone won't be coming to China any time soon, according to additional comments from China Mobile execs and analysts that cover the Chinese telecom market. Reuters reported Wednesday that issues with the iPhone itself, resistance to change from China Mobile, pricing, and the lack of an iTunes Store in China are all combining to slow down any possible deal in China
Warner Music Group chairman and CEO Edgar Bronfman has praised Apple's iTunes Store while promising "many, many more" bundles of tracks with ringtones in what appears to be a complete 180-degree stance on digital music. The executive admitted to fighting consumer demand for digital tracks, which only fueled the illegal P2P transfers online that hel...
Microsoft's new Zune line is good but meant more to compete against the last generation of iPods than the new models, according to a new review by Wall Street Journal technology columnist Walt Mossberg. While the new flash- and hard drive-based players are definite improvements over the original version released a year ago and work well, the devic...
A malware attack against iPhone users is almost guaranteed, says Patrik Runald, the security response manager for F-Secure Security Labs. An attack is "80-90 percent likely," he comments, simply by virtue of how easily the iPhone can be hacked. "The 1.1.2 firmware was released last week and was supposed to prevent people from running third-party ...
Filed under: Leopard, Mac 101So far as I can tell, practically everybody loves Leopard's Quick Look previewer. For today's Mac 101 I thought I'd share a few tips about using Quick Look. First is nice little tip from Mac OS X Hints about zooming in Quick Look. If you invoke Quick Look with the spacebar you can actually zoom in on the image in a couple of ways. You can hold down the option key and use your mouse's scrollwheel/ball (or two-finder scrolling on a touchpad) to zoom in and out. You can also zoom in by holding down the option key and clicking on the image, or zoom out by holding shift-option. While zoomed in you can also click and drag to pan the image. Strangely, the same shortcuts don't work with PDFs, but you can still zoom in and out with Œ˜ + and Œ˜ - (command plus/minus) with the Quick Look HUD selected. The second is that you can use Quick Look with more than one file at a time. So if you select several files in the Finder by command-clicking and then invoke Quick Look with the spacebar, you can scroll between the images with the arrow keys. However, there's also a nifty index sheet icon at the bottom that will bring up a kind of contact sheet with the selected files (as above). Finally, I know some folks had complained that the slideshow option has disappeared from the Finder's contextual menu. But if you select a group of files in the Finder and then invoke Quick Look you'll also see a play button that runs a slideshow in the Quick Look HUD. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Microsoft announced on Tuesday at its TechEd IT Forum that UNETsystem plans to release both Mac and Linux versions of its Anyclick for NAP (Network Access Protection) software next year. Avenda Systems will release the Avenda Linux Network Access Protection Agent to extend NAP technology to network nodes running Linux, according to eWeek.com, and C...
A number of MacBook Pro owners who have upgraded to Mac OS X Leopard are encountering "dead" keyboards, discussions in Apple's support forums indicate. Primarily in the MacBook Pro forum, users are complaining that Leopard seems to be disabling their keyboards and/or trackpads, though only periodically. "Sometimes after the wake up from sleep," c...
You may have noticed that there's no intuitive way to add your own text placeholder to a master slide in Keynote '08. In other words, if you want to make a set of slides that has more than just a title and body you can either (1) add a text box on every page or (2) try to add a text placeholder to Keynote. The second option isn't so intuitive, but here's how to do it:Select View » Show Master Slides.Select the master slide you want to edit. Make a text box in a master slide and keep it selected.In the Inspector, go to the Slide Inspector (second from left), and select the Appearance tab.Check the checkbox next to Define as Text Placeholder, and create a tag.For me, I found that once I did this, I could delete the text inside the text box, and it wouldn't automatically be deleted. I assume that assigning it a tag has something to do with that. I don't know how to assign some text to appear when editing the slide but not when presenting (e...
I was surprised to find a great many effect filters available when setting photos in Leopard's Address Book -- six pages of them! Included are hologram, ASCII art(!), and other great ones. To check them out, just load up Address Book, edit the image in one of your contacts, and click the swirly effects button next to the camera button.
You can add a Recent Applications stack to the Dock. To do so, open Terminal and type this command:defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'After that, type killall Dock to restart the Dock and see your new folder. The only thing is that I haven't found a way to have it show as a fan, it only shows in tile view. But it is already a nice trick.[robg adds: Once the stack is created, control-click on it to reveal a contextual menu that lets you pick between recent applications, documents, servers, volumes, and items. Note that I've edited this hint to reflect...
When using the Spaces hot key (F8), if you hold the key, Spaces will appear, then disappear when you release F8. This great when you just want to get a bird's eye view of stuff -- press and hold, view, release and Spaces vanishes. And, this works as expected with the Spaces plus Exposé tip (Show all windows). Press F9 while holding F8, and you'll see the All Windows view.Also, another tip for those with notebook keyboards (or others?). On mine, F7 has a tiny icon of two screens. This makes an excellent 'icon' for Spaces, so I've re-assigned Spaces to that key. This also leave F8 for the Yahoo! Widget Engine.[robg adds: In 10.4 (and 10.5), both Exposé and Dashboard also have this 'quick view' mode, accessed by pressing and holding their respective keys.]
It seems in 10.5 the Application Switcher now receives dropped files -- drag a file, press Command-Tab, then drop the dragged file onto an application in the switcher window.[robg adds: While testing this hint, I noticed another change in the app switcher: pressing "H" is now a toggle. In 10.4, pressing "H" would hide the currently-highlighted app in the switcher, but there was no way to unhide it again. In 10.5, "H" merely flips the hidden state of the chosen app. Note that this is not a duplicate of this hint, which simply noted you could drag, Command-Tab to a new app, then drop. Now, finally, you can drop directly onto icons in the Command-Tab palette itself.]
This is a something that Apple has hidden away, leaving some Mac users out there to go through all sorts of lengths to remove items from their Time Machine backups.The solution is really easy, though.Open time Machine. Go to the top level -- the first window; the one with your hard drive. Navigate to the backup you want to delete and use the Actions menu (gear icon) in the Finder's toolbar. It has an option to delete the backup. Also, when using the Actions menu, with a file or folder selected, there is an option to delete all instances of the file/folder from all backups.
I thought I'd share the details of how I successfully managed a "non-standard" installation of Boot Camp in 10.5. Basically, I wanted three partitions on my startup drive: System, Users and Windows. (I don't want a debate on the merits of partitioning; it works for me, and the one time I didn't do it, I lost a ton of stuff due to 10.1 weirdness).So, Boot Camp Assistant will not allow this. Full credit for the workaround goes to AxL over at Apple Discussions. I just tweaked the original a bit, and included some additional details. Read on... Assuming you're all backed up, and ready to wipe your disk, here's how to do this:Start up from the Leopard CDDon't go in to the Installer when it appears, instead launch Disk Utility from the menu bar. Set up your partition scheme, leaving the disk format as HFS+ (Journaled). You may need to resize the Disk Utility w...
If, like me, you like to change your folder icons every now and then, you'll know that you need to Get Info on an icon file or an existing item (the source), click or tab to the icon in the Get Info window, then copy it and paste it onto the icon in the Get Info window of the item you want it on (the destination).Well, I just discovered that you can simply drag an icon file onto the icon in the Get Info window of the destination item, and it changes it for you. You can do this with any file -- it simply copies the icon from that file onto the destination. Very handy! I have noted that this takes a few attempts in some cases, but not sure why, so have bugged it with Apple.