Apple's Snow Leopard still evolving, developers say
Although there's been some evidence to suggest Snow Leopard could hit the market several months ahead of expectations, new information reveals that Apple remains heavily engaged in building out some of the features first previewed back in June.
published on Tuesday, the 2. December 2008, appleinsider
Set QuickTime Player icons for non-standard file types
I found this great QuickTime component package callled Perian that includes codecs for pretty much everything VLC does, thus making it possible to use QuickTime Player for all my media. The problem with Perian is that files with extensions like MKV or DIVX aren't given a preview or icon, even though they open nicely from the Finder. The solution is to add those extensions to QuikTime's plist, which will associate a nice QuickTime 'Movie' icon for such files. Here's how: In the Applications folder, Control-click on QuickTime Player and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Open the Contents folder, and then open Info.plist in a pure text editor of your choosing. Press Command-F and find the string Movie-Quicktime. Now add the wanted extensions to the array of strings above the line you found. For example, I added mkv in the following example: <array> <string&g...
published on Tuesday, the 2. December 2008, macosxhints
OXtender beta allows Open-Xchange sync on Macs
Open-Xchange is now previewing an iSync connector for its open-source groupware suite, the OXtender for Mac OS X. The beta software allows Mac users to access Open-Xchange servers and groupware e-mail, appointments, documents, contacts and tasks through standard Mac OS X applications like Mail, iCal and Address Book. Using OXtender, groupware data can be accessed and edited within OS X application...
published on Monday, the 1. December 2008, macintosh-news-network
iSkysoft releases Video Converter 1.8.1.0
iSkysoft on Friday released the latest version of its video conversion program, Video Converter 1.8.1.0. The update adds support for MKV, WMV, MOD, ASF, MOD and MP2 input formats, as well as MKV and MKA output formats. The program allows users to crop video to remove black sides, trim the length of files, extract audio, or capture pictures while previewing a movie by pressing a snapshot button. Vi...
published on Sunday, the 30. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
iScrapbook 2.0 adds iScrapKits, 15 new features
Chronos LC has released iScrapbook 2.0, with over 15 new features for its digital scrapbook management software. The software now bundles art elements into "iScrapKits," with a browser for quickly locating specific elements. The app also produces two-page spreads and has a two-page column view, allowing people to see pages side-by-side for preview of final book output. Six new shapes for cropping ...
published on Monday, the 24. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Using Preview?s Enhanced Photo Editing Tools
For basic photo editing, if you’re running OS X 10.5 Leopard you don’t need Photoshop Elements or Pixelmator. Leopard’s Preview graphics viewer application is much more than a viewer; it now incorporates some very handy image correction tools that are not only user-friendly and intuitive to use, but also work really well. Consequently, if you take [...]Related PostsGigaOM: Aviary: Ambitious Online Image Suite GigaOM: Operation Foxbook: Could You Do It? TheAppleBlog: Unsanity APE & Leopard
published on Monday, the 24. November 2008, apple-blog
Motorola Atila and QA30 slider handsets spied
A couple of Monday reports have brought an update and a few photos of two new Motorola handsets, the previously previewed Atila and QA30. The former is billed as an iPhone competitor thanks to its 2.8-inch, 240x320 touchscreen and 3G data network support. The quad-band handset will reportedly use Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro. Photos of the Atila were revealed in a Hong Kong-based cellphone forum, thoug...
published on Monday, the 24. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
A tip for a faster change-app gestures on touchpads
It is now well-known the four finger gesture to change apps. You swipe four fingers, right or left, and a bezel with open apps appears, as with Command-Tab. Then if you swipe with two fingers, you will select a different app, which can be switched to by tapping with four fingers.One thing I saw today is that you don't have to release all your fingers after the four-finger swipe and the two-finger swipe. Simply make the first swipe and only release two fingers; the system will recognize correctly the new gesture, and you save a bit of time.A similar thing happens with the zoom gesture in some applications such as Preview: you can zoom-in and zoom-out without release your fingers. Safari behaves a bit differenlyt: you can zoom-in/out without releasing your fingers, but it will only increase/decrease the page size once (Preview performs a continuous zoom). For larger zooms in Safari, you need to release your fingers.On the other hand, a change between zoom and s...
published on Thursday, the 20. November 2008, macosxhints
Review: Funtastic Photos by Ohanaware
Photo editing programs let you do some amazing image manipulation, but unfortunately most of them cost quite a bit of money; not to mention that it takes lots of time and practice to create the enhanced image. Ohanaware offers Funtastic Photos, a simple to use photo manipulation program that doesnít cost an arm , yet includes a wide variety tools. It provides a preview window and sliders to see wh...
published on Tuesday, the 18. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Kodak sues LG, Samsung over camera tech
Kodak late Monday filed a lawsuit against LG and Samsung, accusing the two Korean companies of infringing on digital photography patents. The complaint, filed in a Western District court in Kodak's home state of New York, charges both LG and Samsung with copying Kodak techniques for capturing, compressing, previewing and storing photos and still images....
published on Tuesday, the 18. November 2008, macintosh-news-network