Mac OS 10.6.7 Brings Support for AMD Graphics Chipsets
A new discovery has been made in the new update of Mac OS X. Mac OS X 10.6.7 has been discovered to bring support for new AMD graphics cards. Apple has already made the transition to AMD/ATI graphics chips, however, these bring support for chipsets that are not in any Apple developed machine. The new discovery has many of the Hackintosh creators out there rubbing their hands as they are preparing to figure out new ways to build their own systems running Apple’s Mac OS X software. What the software also tells us is Apple’s plans for the next update of Mac products, such as future MacBooks, iMacs, and Mac Pros. Check out the line up of AMD GPUs thats supported.
ColorSnapper: A Hand Color Picker for the Mac
Many HTML and CSS editors have built in color pickers to make it easier to identify and convert colors on the screen to the required hexadecimal format, but these features are restricted to just that application. Well here’s where ColorSnapper comes in! ColorSnapper is an app that sits in your menu bar and is activated by a hotkey. You then get a little popup loupe to select a color on the screen and then have the app copy that color to the clipboard in a format of your coosing.
ColorSnapper is available in the Mac App Store for $4.99 (USD) here.
Camera+ Gets Kicked Out Of The App Store
Apple pulled the plug on a popular application in the App Store. Camera+ developed by tap tap tap, was given the boot because it violated developer license agreement with a new “Easter egg” feature. The company got caught red handed showing users how to activate the camera shutter using the volume button of the iPhone with a little workaround that could be activated through Safari on iOS. VolumeSnap, the company dubbed feature, was rejected by Cupertino because they said it created “user confusion.” Tap tap tap said they were a little blue about the rejection of their feature, but given the success they were having on the App Store, it didn’t really matter.
OpenGL 4.1 Specification Is Here
The Khronos Groups has released the new OpenGL 4.1 on Monday, July 26 at the SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Graphics) conference. The new spec brings even tighter integration with mobile OpenGL ES and OpenCL Application Programming Interfaces as well as tapping deeper into the graphics performance on both Macs, PCs and mobile devices, especially on the iPhone, iPod and iPad.
The OpenGL standard serves as the software that steers graphics controller in devices across multiple platforms by allowing those devices to use the graphics hardware in a standardized fashion. Apple has definitely used the standard in its software offerings and has made it an increasing part of its development process. This is evident in Apples Mac OS X: Leopard offering with OpenGL 2.1 and the 3.x support provided in Snow Leopard, for example.
AutoCAD’s Return on the Mac
For those of you who work with three dimensional models for your blueprints for building, bridges and other structures, you were forced to use a Windows machine, or if you had a Mac you had to install Windows for one of the most widely use 3D rendering construction softwares, AutoCAD. Many people, believe it or not, never had knowledge that AutoCAD use to be developed for Mac OS. Now the highly acclaimed software is making it’s way back on to the Mac platform.
5 Great Ideas for iPhone Wallpaper
Everyone loves their iPhone. Whether you’ve gotten one for Christmas, have had one since launch, or are just sporting an iPod Touch, Apple’s pocket portable has quickly become a part of your digital identity. And yet there are so few ways to let your personality shine through to passers-by. Sure ringtones say a lot about who you are, but what about the wallpaper you choose? As soon as you hand someone your iPhone to check out, it’s the first thing they see. Make it count.
If you’re having trouble coming up with an idea for a unique image for stand-by time, look no further as we dream up 5 fresh ideas for iPhone wallpaper. And be sure to check out our comments for even more ideas from our readers!
Flickery Review: Flickr on Your Desktop
I assume most of you know about Flickr, the awesome, and free (unless you go pro) photo-sharing service. But it isn’t only for sharing your photos with your friends and family, it is also a great image search engine. Many photos on it are under Creative Commons, and the quality of image you get is much higher than on a place like Google. There have been many iPhone apps that let you access Flickr, but not so many Mac apps (surprisingly). One of the only Mac apps is Flickery.
TwitPic Review: Far From Picture Perfect
Twitter users around the world have learned to love the world of 140-character microblogging, but that doesn’t mean a picture’s not worth a thousand words. Over the past year a number of photo-hosting services aimed at Tweeters have begun to pop up. Services like yfrog, Posterous, and img.ly have been gaining traction at an alarming rate, but none have proven as popular as TwitPic. It was only a matter of time until one of these services developed an app for the iPhone, but is it really necessary?
LittleSnapper Touch Review: Image Uploading From Your iPod
Have you ever wanted to upload and share a picture right from your iPod? That’s exactly what LittleSnapper Touch does. LittleSnapper Touch is the iPhone/iPod Touch version of Realmac Software‘s LittleSnapper. It uses the same QuickSnapper website so you can quickly share your images.
When you start up LittleSnapper Touch you will see a large wheel. Simply spin this wheel to select the different options. You can choose to upload images from your library, your camera, or you can take a websnap. Unlike LittleSnapper for Mac, however, the websnap will only be of what is currently showing on your iPhone’s screen. You can also add and delete accounts and visit the QuickSnapper website from the main menu.
EasyCrop Review: Trimming out the Fat
Huge photo suites like PhotoShop and Gimp may offer a completely comprehensive set of photo-editing tools, but it comes at a price. Actual cost asides (Gimp is open source freeware after all) these big programs are major memory hogs. And while it may not really that big of a nuisance when you’re working on a larger project, it’s beyond frustrating when you have to wait 2 minutes for the program to load when all you want to do is crop or resize a photo. Yellow Mug Software has heard your cry, and they’ve responded with EasyCrop.
