Mac Feeds
Staying on top of Mac related news is never boring but it can be a bit of a chore. To get you started we have compiled a great list of the most popular, and some not so well known, RSS feeds for Mac fans. The file is in OPML format suitable for importing into your favorite RSS aggregator.
Mac Feeds (as of November 2007)
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Software Releases
The #1 source for software updates
- Neon Tango 1.0 - (February 7, 2008) retro-style arcade shooter game...
- Data Guardian 1.3.1 - (February 7, 2008) 448-bit secure database for addresses, passwords......
- CheckSpell 1.1 - (February 7, 2008) Polish, Czech, Lithuanian, Slovak and Ukrainian spellchecking service...
New software releases for OS X on MacUpdate
- deskUNPDF 2.01 - Converts PDFs to Word, Excel, OpenOffice, HTML, XML, Images, and more. (Shareware) - (February 7, 2008) Converts PDFs to Word, Excel, OpenOffice, HTML, XML, Images, and more....
New releases of mac apps from iusethis
- Convert LIT - (February 7, 2008)
1usesthis
| Version: 1.8
| License: Freeware
With Convert LIT, you can extract files from Microsoft proprietary ebook format .lit (see http://www.microsoft.com/reader/ for more information), you can also down convert (ie remove DRM protection) a...
- Simple EXIF Viewer - (February 7, 2008)
1usesthis
| Version: 2.6
| License: Freeware
EXIF Viewer is a small Mac OS X application to display EXIF information in JPEG files coming from digital cameras. This version is based on Eric M. Johnston's "exiftags" EXIF parsing code
Changelog |
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- XIII - (February 7, 2008)
1usesthis
| Version: 1.0.1
| License: Commercial with demo
The world thinks you killed the president…and for all you know , you did.
Your search for the truth begins with “XIII” – a number mysteriously tattoed on your c...
- SmartCVS - (February 7, 2008)
28usesthis
| Version: 6.0.6a
| License: Shareware
SmartCVS is an innovative multi-platform CVS client. It has very powerful features, like built-in File Compare/Merge, Show Transactions or List Repository Files, and is still easy and intuitive to...
- Pluto - (February 7, 2008)
1usesthis
| Version: 1.0
| License: Freeware
Pluto discovered :-)
(Don't take it to serious)
Changelog |
Comments | Screenshot | Homepage
| Download...
Apple/Mac News
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
- Apple cancels booth for NAB - (February 7, 2008) Filed under: Software, Video, Other EventsIf you were planning on Apple pulling something out of its hat on a booth at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas in early April, you're going to be disappointed. TVTechnology.com ...
- Rumor: Apple event the last week of February - (February 7, 2008) Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Rumors, Other Events, Apple, iPhoneTUAW has received a tip that the company that does television for Apple's live events and Macworld is apparently hiring for an unannounced Apple event at the end of February. Keep in...
- The biggest Apple USB mouse in the world - (February 7, 2008) Filed under: Humor, iMac, Apple History, Graphic Design
TUAW reader Kim, who runs the Danish blog Kinablog,dk, sent us this piece he wrote about what he calls the world's biggest Apple USB mouse (a.k.a. the iMac mouse, a.k.a. the hockey puck). It's ...
- Freeverse's Neon Tango continues the shape shooter tradition - (February 7, 2008) Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, Odds and ends
Freeverse has release a new arcade shooter for the Mac called Neon Tango, and upon first glance, it looks a lot like Geometry Wars (which I've played many, many times late into the nig...
- FolderTeint: darkness for your desktop - (February 7, 2008) Filed under: Freeware, LeopardWhen it comes to my desktop and the icons that sit upon it, I have a fondness for darkness. It's not because of a fatalistic world view or any gothic tendencies on my part, I simply like my work to pop out against a non-...
AppleInsider has been the leading source of insider news and rumors on Apple Computer since 1997.
- Rumor: possible Apple event brewing for late February - (February 7, 2008) For the second time in three years, Apple Inc. may use the latter end of February to hold a special gathering where it will show off its latest innovations to analysts and members of the media, according to multiple reports.
TUAW bravely states th...
- Apple pulls out of 2008 NAB conference - (February 7, 2008) After days of speculation on the matter amongst industry-watchers, Apple Inc. confirmed Thursday that it will not have a booth at this year's National Association of Broadcasters conference.
The move comes just months after the company's longtime ...
- Apple hit with summons over iTunes Store Allowance feature - (February 7, 2008) Apple this week came under legal fire from a small California firm that claims to hold a patent on concepts used by the iPod maker to facilitate the 'iTunes Store Allowance' feature of its industry leading digital download service.
In a scant comp...
- Apple filing depicts Apple TV with iChat widget interface - (February 7, 2008) A new and discrete patent filing on the part of Apple Inc. portrays previously undisclosed versions of the company's Apple TV set-top-box software and remote control that make extensive use of widgets to facilitate everything from online chat to orde...
- Apple's Safari 3.1 to support downloadable web fonts, more - (February 7, 2008) The ability to download and immediately render non-standard web fonts is just one of several advancements Apple Inc. has planned for Safari 3.1, a small but significant update to its share-gaining web browser for both the Mac and Windows PCs.
The...
Are <i>your</i> applications 64-bit clean and resolution independent? No more excuses!
- Twitterrific 3.1 beta fixes memory leak - (February 7, 2008) Twitterrific is a favorite amongst Mac-using Tweeters, so the new 3.1 beta's features and bug fixes are certainly welcome. Read More...
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- Orange: 90,000 iPhones down, 310,000 to go - (February 7, 2008) Orange said that it has sold 90,000 iPhones as of the end of January and reiterated its goal of selling close to half a million by the end of 2008. Whether that goal is realistic given current sales patterns is another story.Read More...
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the mac news you care about
- Apple Event in Last Week of February? - (February 7, 2008) TUAW tentatively claims that Mira Mobile is hiring for an unannounced Apple event in the last week of February.
The company reportedly coordinates television services for sporting and other live events, including Apple's events. TUAW ......
- Apple Pulls out of NAB 2008 - (February 7, 2008) Macenstein reports that Apple has decided not to exhibit at the 2008 National Association of Broadcasters conference which takes place from April 11-17 in Las Vegas, NV."Apple is participating in fewer trade shows this year," said An......
- Apple Developing Interactive Widgets for Apple TV - (February 7, 2008) MacNN reports on a number of new patents from Apple, one of which involves an interesting use of "widgets" alongside streaming video that would allow for more interactivity.
The August 2006 filing introduces the possbility of incorporating Das......
- BBC to Offer Video Downloads for Mac. Apple TV Considered. - (February 7, 2008) BBC's Mark Thompson responds to some criticisms about their Windows-only support for their iPlayer service, which allows users to stream and download videos to their computer. While Mac and other platforms have been able to stream shows, downloads h...
- Standardized Battery Test Results for the MacBook Air - (February 7, 2008) Anandtech provides more standardized battery results for their 1.8GHz MacBook Air (HDD).
They setup 3 tasks of varying intensity with the MacBook Air's display set at just above 50% brightness, and not to go to sleep, though the hard d......
The O'Reilly Network's Mac DevCenter Articles and Weblogs
- A Raft of iPhone Technical Posts - (February 4, 2008) Erica Sadun has posted a raft of excellent iPhone technical shorts on O’Reilly’s Digital Media Mac Blog. Topics include Programmatically Handling iPhone interruptions, Creating an UIImage from a URL, and plenty more.
If you’re an &#...
- Five Favorites from Macworld SF 08 - (January 28, 2008) “With more than 450 exhibitors at this year’s Macworld Expo, it’s impossible to see it all,” writes Jochen Wolters. “Which is a shame especially because of all those countless small and medium sized companies whose produ...
- This Week on New O'Reilly Mac: PhoneValet & iPhone - (January 12, 2008) Gordon Meyer writes in PhoneValet & iPhone: Instant Landline Voice Mail:
“Parliant’s PhoneValet has been a valuable part of my automated home for a few years now, but the recent addition of built-in iPhone/iPod touch support has push...
- Mac FFOSS (Freeware/Free & Open Source Software) - (January 9, 2008) Statz: Modify Your Presence Status on Multiple Systems from Your Mac
Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:28:13
From Google Code comes…
Statz 0.8.5
…for Mac OS X which lets you simultaneously change your status information on services such as: Adium, iCha...
- Mac FFOSS (Freeware/Free & Open Source Software) - (January 2, 2008) Annals of Improbable Research Articles Now Free
Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:53:46
The Annals of Improbable Research magazine’s articles are now freely available on the web as well as a low-resolution PDF download. The high resolution PDF version as wel...
Macosxhints.com RSS feed
- Convert Pages 3 full underlines to per-word underlines - (February 7, 2008) I write books about Photoshop and web stuff. Since 2004, I've been using Pages to do all the work, and I never regretted leaving Word behind forever. After recently updating to Pages 3 (in iWork '08), and revising a book for its third edition, I noti...
- Change the rotating font in the iDVD 08 Revolution theme - (February 7, 2008) iDVD 08 has a great theme called Revolution. On a given menu page, the theme shows a picture/movie on a revolving vertical cylinder flanked by rotating text, and a static text element for the title of that menu page. The cool thing is that as you cha...
- Simulating an encrypted physical disk in OS X - (February 7, 2008) I've always wanted to have a fully encrypted memory stick which when plugged in, OS X would automatically ask me for a password before mounting it. As far as I know (and from what tests I carried out), it's not possible to create an encrypted disk im...
- Avoid key presses when in Exposé's Show Desktop mode - (February 7, 2008) I accidentally found this bug today. I was in TextEdit and hit my F11 (Exposé - Show Desktop) key by mistake when I was reaching for the Delete key. So I hit the F11 key again to bring back my work, and found out that if you hit the F11 key and then...
- 10.5: Use 4GB of RAM in older MacBook Pros - (February 6, 2008) I'm surprised this one hasn't come up earlier, actually. I recently purchased a 4GB Techworks upgrade kit for my previous-generation (2.33GHz) 17" MacBook Pro. From what I'd read, due to either limitations in the Intel logic board, or limitations in ...
The latest from Think Secret.
- Briefly: European iPhone sales figures, insider stock transactions - (January 31, 2008) T-Mobile recently announced that it has sold 70,000 iPhones in the first 11 weeks since the device went on sale in Germany in early November, as a number of factors appear to be affecting Apple's ability to ramp up sales of the iPhone overseas.
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- Apple details 2007 executive compensation - (January 23, 2008) Apple's scheduled 14A, filed with the Securities and Exchange commission Wednesday, details the compensation Apple's executives received in 2007. CEO Steve Jobs earned $1, once again, for the year.
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- Apple posts $1.58 billion quarterly profit as shares skid - (January 22, 2008) Apple earned a profit of $1.58 billion on revenue of $9.6 billion for its fiscal first-quarter ending December 29, the company announced Tuesday. During the holiday quarter, Apple sold 2.319 million Macs, 22.1 million iPods, and 2.315 million iPhones...
- Photos from Apple's booth at Macworld Expo - (January 15, 2008) SAN FRANCISCO—Apple is showing off the new MacBook Air and its other newly announced products at its booth at Macworld Expo. Think Secret has put together a gallery of photos from Apple's booth.
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