iDrum 1.7 adds song editor, 50 new kits, more
iZotope has released iDrum 1.7, updating the software-based virtual drum machine with a new song editor, 50 new kits, the ability to create rhythms in differing time signatures and more. The song editor allows users to create drum patterns in iDrum alongside existing tracks, and keeps the effects in time. Added within the new kits are live acoustic drums, hip-hop sounds, dance track effects and ot...
published on Monday, the 17. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Internet petition protests iPhone auto-correction
An internet petition has been building to protest Apple's auto-correction feature on the iPhone, entitled Please Let Us Disable Auto Correction Steve. Many users would at least like the option to switch the feature off. The truncated words, commonly used while writing on mobile devices, are particularly problematic. Frühjahr Design has received nearly 3,000 "signatures" on its petition in the few ...
published on Tuesday, the 16. September 2008, macintosh-news-network
CardScan Executive unveiled for Mac, free download
CardScan on Monday unveiled the CardScan Executive for Mac, a set which includes a business card scanner, coupled with contact management and synchronization software. The scanner itself is capable of reading 20 color cards per minute, while the software is able to take information from the scanner, email signatures, files, and more. CardScan Executive for Mac is available at select Apple Stores, ...
published on Monday, the 15. September 2008, macintosh-news-network
Another take on exporting and importing Mail signatures
It seems that there were some problems with older hints to import and export signatures to and from Mail.app. In response to this Macosxhints forum question, I wrote some scripts to help with the process. Since Mail.app uses .webarchive files (stored in your user's Library » Mail » Signatures folder), the scripts use the command line tool textutil to do the conversion from RTF to webarchive. textutil can convert to and from other formats you may want to use as well: txt, html, rtf, rtfd, doc, docx, wordml, odt, or webarchive. Import_Mail_Signatures Script -- View the script's source This script will allow you to choose a folder of RTF files, convert them into the new webarchive files, and place them into the Mail.app signature folder as described above. It will also...
published on Wednesday, the 23. April 2008, macosxhints
PDFpen 3.4 speeds up, adds fixes
Smile On My Mac has released the v3.4 update to PDFpen, its tool to assist with managing PDF files. Users can edit and resize blocks of content, overlay new material such as digital signatures, and perform tasks such as as creating a new document out of the pages from several others. The patched program is said to improve the performance of addin...
published on Tuesday, the 18. March 2008, macintosh-news-network
30,000 petition MS to "save Windows XP"
An online petition conducted by InfoWorld has managed to collect over 30,000 signatures asking Microsoft to keep Windows XP available, the magazine has revealed today. Called just Save XP, the petition argues that Microsoft's already extended June 30th cutoff point for sales of the 2001 operating system is still too short and that it should contin...
published on Friday, the 18. January 2008, macintosh-news-network
10.5: Verify applications' digital signatures
Leopard supports signed applications to improve its security model. All the system utilities, in fact, come signed by Apple. To sign and check applications, the codesign command line utility is available. For example, to display all information about Terminal.app's code signature, open up a terminal and type:$ codesign -dvvv /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.appExecutable=/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal Identifier=com.apple.Terminal Format=bundle with Mach-O universal (i386 ppc7400) CodeDirectory v=20001 size=2743 flags=0x0(none) hashes=131+3 location=embeddedSignature size=4064 Authority=Software Signing Authority=Apple Code Signing Certification Authority Authority=Apple Root CA Info.plist entries=22 Sealed Resources rules=9 files=63 Internal requirements count=0 size=12[robg adds: There's a good amount ...
published on Tuesday, the 13. November 2007, macosxhints
How to view smime.p7m email attachments
From time to time, I receive email with an empty message body and an attachment named smime.p7m. How do you deal with these on a Mac? Such attachments are cryptographically signed messages, and possibly encrypted -- though encrypted messages may have a different extension. Signature verification or decrypting seem to be very hard on the Mac. However, the message is just probably just signed and not encrypted. To view it on your Mac, drag the attachment to BBEdit. If it's signed and not encrypted, after a few garbage (binary) characters, the whole message text will be readable. I copy that text to the clipboard, go back to Eudora, make the message editable, and paste the plain text into the message for later reference. As an aside, does anyone know how to verify cryptologic signatures and/or decrypt these attachments?
published on Wednesday, the 23. May 2007, macosxhints
A possible fix for vanishing Mail signatures
I, like many others on the net, was losing my Mail signatures on every quit. None of the fixes I've seen around the web seemed to work, though. I did have two of seven accounts that were holding their signatures, however. So I went through each account's setup to see what was different, and I noticed that the only difference was the account names. The accounts that held their signatures on a quit had different names than the address of the account itself. The accounts losing their signatures had the same account name as the address. So I deleted the .com part of the account names, and they started holding their signatures.Now I'm not sure if keeping the name different was the key, or if you can't end an account name with .com, but one of those two things is what solved this rather frustrating problem. Hope that helps someone out there.[robg adds: When I tested this on two accounts, I couldn't replicate the issue -- regardless of which version...
published on Monday, the 11. December 2006, macosxhints
Export-Import Entourage 1.3.10
A collection of over 50 scripts to export and import almost everything - Contacts, Groups, Calendar Events, Tasks, Notes, Messages, Folders, Accounts, Signatures, Mailing Lists and Categories - from one identity of Entourage X or 2004 to any other, to and from Entourage 2001, and to transfer Contacts, Calendar, Tasks and Notes to and from other PIM programs on the Mac and Windows, with special converters for Microsoft OUTLOOK, Excel and other programs.
published on Sunday, the 1. October 2006, scriptbuilders