Cool Hack: Running Leopard on an MSI Wind UMPC

July 15, 2008

Mac owners often look on with envy at the Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs) in the Windows world. These are truly tiny laptops, often with 10″ or smaller displays and weights that manufacture a MacBook Air seem downright obese by comparison.

MoDaCo network founder and Microsoft MVP Paul O’Brien decide…

Apple updates RAW support with 10.5.4 update

July 2, 2008

The Mac OS X 10.5.4 update might have made you restart your Mac, but it additionally added “RAW image support for several cameras.” While Apple didn’t tell us what these cameras were in Software Update, they did later update the RAW support page for Mac OS X Leopard.

According to the page, Ap…

OS X Server 10.5.4

July 1, 2008

In our giddiness about OS X 10.5.4’s release yesterday we neglected to mention that the server version of OS X has plus been updated to 10.5.4. The server update (which you can download directly here, or get the combo updater here) includes all the fixes that were in the client version of 10.5.4…

Get Address Book Bluetooth dialing back with Nova Media Phone plugins

June 18, 2008

One of the the stranger changes in Leopard was the loss of the ability to dial (and send text messages) from the Address Book to a Bluetooth paired cell phone. Fortunately, however, Nova Media has released its Phone plugins to return that functionality to the Leopard Address Book and other appli…

Media Temple launches beta for VPS running on Leopard Server

June 17, 2008

Teaming with Parallels, Media Temple has just announced the start of private-beta period for its latest (mt) Labs offering, the (xv) Xserve-Virtual — which they are dubbing “the world’s first VPS Leopard Server.” Although virtual servers running Linux or Windows are pretty standard hosting opti…

Spore Creature Creator now available

June 17, 2008

EA has made the Spore Creature Creator trial available for download on both Mac and PC. A while back EA promised simultaneous release for Mac and PC, and they seem to be on track with the Creature Creator which is available for purchase at $9.95.

The Spore Creature Creator is a preview and de…

Houdini 9.5 3D software coming to OS X

June 16, 2008

Side Effects is bringing Houdini, their professional 3D software, to OS X for the first day with the release of the Houdini 9.5 beta for OS X, Windows, and Linux. According to the company, Houdini “brings the 3D industry’s first node-based workflow to the Mac ensuring that 3D artists can collabo…

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