Entries from April 2008

What to do with your old iMac

Date April 27, 2008

Seems that some folks out there have some quite unique ideas.

Via Brisbane Times

Time machine screen saver

Date April 18, 2008

If you are the Time machine fan, here is a very nice screen saver for your Mac.

You can download it via Deviant Art. If the screen saver is not enough, maybe a time machine wallpaper will set get you set for now.

Creating PDF documents on Mac

Date April 12, 2008

Mac OS X has an in-built functionality of saving documents to a PDF file. This comes very handy in many situations and it doesn’t cost you a dime, unlike on some other platforms.
This is how you do it. Say you have a document in Apple Pages, a newsletter you have just created and you’d like [...]

Mind mapping software for Mac OS X

Date April 6, 2008

I’ve been using MindJet MindManager for quite a while at work, on Windows of course, but never used anything like that on Mac. I knew that there was an OS X version, but I wanted to explore if there are any other products that do the same or similar thing on Mac. To my surprise [...]

Aquafadas BannerZest 1.0 released

Date April 5, 2008

Aquafadas have released  BannerZest 1.0, their incredibly useful Flash presentation application for both professional and amateur web designers. BannerZest will turn any collection of images into a Flash gallery, a navigation banner, or a slidehow in just a few easy steps.
BannerZest ships as both a standard edition and a pro version. BannerZest Pro has all [...]

Apple sued over 20″ iMac displays

Date April 3, 2008

An iMac owner sued Apple on Monday claiming the 20-inch iMac desktop computers can’t display the “millions of colors” Apple promises in promotional materials.
The Cupertino-based company touts that ability on its website and other marketing material even though it knows iMac monitors can display only 262,144 true colours, according to the lawsuit, filed in US [...]