MacUpdate Holiday Promo, 10 Apps for $49
Mac Update has a new deal for this Holiday season. They are offering 10 applications for $49 and the first 5000 also get an 11th app, iDive. This is a great deal if you need some apps for virus, diagnosis or optimization. See the list after the Jump.
Drive Genius 2 ($99): diagnoses and repairs problems with your hard drive, optimizes your system, and more.
RapidWeaver 4 ($79): Create professional-looking Web sites quickly and easily.
DefaultFolder X 4 ($34.95): Fly through Open & Save dialog boxes at lightning speed.
VirusBarrier X 10.5 ($69.95): Fast, simple, and non-intrusive anti-virus software.
MacGourmet Deluxe ($44.95): Like iTunes for food, track recipes, plan meals, manage wines, and more.
LittleSnitch 2 ($29.95): Monitors your network connection to make sure your Mac only sends out what you want it to.
KeyCue 4 ($27): Displays full keyboard shortcuts for all your applications
MacPilot 3 ($19.95): Access hundreds of hidden features to customize and improve your Mac OS X experience.
WhatSize 4 ($12.99): Identify files that are hogging disk space.
iVolume 3 ($29.95): Ensures all your iTunes tracks play back at the same volume level.
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Apple Releases iTunes 8.0.2 Before Release of iPhone 2.2
Apple tonight has released iTunes 8.0.2 as an update prior to the upcoming 2.2 iPhone firmware. The update says the following:
iTunes 8.0.2 improves stability and performance and provides a number of important bug fixes, including:
• Addresses a quality issue creating MP3s on some computers.
• Fixes a connectivity issue with the iTunes Store when using some Internet proxies with Mac OS X.
• Improves accessibility with VoiceOver.
You can get it now via software update.
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Prototype MacBook Air Surfaces From Ebay Purchase
Rarely do we see any prototype products that emerge from Apple. This lucky member of the MacRumors forum "Brett33", purchased a MacBook Air "as is" from Ebay for $730 and once recieved, he had realized he had something very special. The MacBook Air he recieved turned out to have a black aluminum bottom and was lacking the words "MacBook Air" from the screen bezel. The MacBook also came supplied with the interim build Mac OS X 10.5 (8R4016). Upon the new owners investigation, he found that the serial number was for May 2007, a full 6-months prior to the the release of the MacBook Air. Although not often seen, Apple prototypes have been seen in the wild.
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Apple Gives Details About Last MobileMe Update
MobileMe has not been the most friendly of apps. Apple has gone to great lengths to please their customers by offering them a total of 90 free days onto their existing year if they experienced the many outages. Apple has now posted a technical bulletin outlining the updates that MobileMe received in late September. Apple is usually very "hush-hush" about their updates and it is nice to see them branch out and let us in on what has really changed. The updates for MobileMe cover the entire spectrum of the product from stabilization to improving the user experience. See more after the jump…
Via Apple:
Apple is always working to improve MobileMe. Since MobileMe is primarily a server-side, or "cloud"-based, service, the MobileMe team can make improvements and push updates to MobileMe without any action being required of MobileMe customers. Since server-side updates are a bit more innocuous than a standard software update to Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows, it’s easy not to notice that updates are occurring. Usually the only hint of these updates is that things just "work better".
All MobileMe Services
- Improves localization for MobileMe web applications
- Improves membername suggestions when attempting to sign up for a membername that is already taken
MobileMe Mail
- Resolves an issue when attempting to Reply All to some messages
- Resolves several issues with Keyboard Shortcuts not behaving as expected
- Resolves an issue in which a message was not removed from Drafts after being sent
- Improves performance in Internet Explorer 7
- Improves page title when you only have one message in a mailbox
- Improves performance when Junk Mail filtering is enabled
- Resolves an issue where attempting to add contacts from MobileMe mail was not working
- Improves performance when first logging into MobileMe Mail
- Provides a "loading" graphic to indicate that messages are still being loaded instead of a blank page
MobileMe Account
- Improves accuracy of the MobileMe data transfer details
- Addresses an inaccuracy of used storage in a Group iDisk
- Improves storage allocation menu for family pack sub-accounts
- Clicking Logout from Account now fully logs you out of MobileMe
MobileMe Calendar
- Improves calendar performance with reoccurring events
- Improves International time zone handling
- Improves performance in Mozilla Firefox 3 when switching views
- Resolves an issue in which event editors would only partially display in some browsers, requiring a refresh
- Improves performance with a large number of To Do items
- Improves reliability when first loading MobileMe Calendar
MobileMe Contacts
- Re-enables the ability to export vCards from MobileMe contacts
- Improves performance with Internet Explorer 7
- Improves reliability when first loading MobileMe Contacts
MobileMe Gallery
- Improves experience when viewing Galleries on an iPhone/iPod touch
- Resolves an issue where some buttons were not fully displaying in Firefox 3
- Editing a photo’s information in www.me.com/gallery will now correctly update the photo on gallery.me.com/membername
[Apple] via [Arstechnica]
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Finder To Become Cocoa Based in Snow Leopard
According to Apple Insider, the new version of OS X coming to us sometime next year will have a Finder completely redone in Cocoa. Traditionally the Finder was done in Carbon and will finally get a revamp to the new code-base platform. This could bring speed and extra nicety to the finder for all who enjoy the quality of their Mac.
The new version of Leopard will also include Image Boot. This feature has the ability to let you put a copy of the OS onto another hard drive or partition on your internal hard drive and allows you to boot from it.
What else could Apple have for us in January as they have almost exhausted all of their products in the past year or so.
[via Tuaw]
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