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iLife '05 Not Pre-Installed on Mac mini

New Mac mini users may be in for a slight shock when playing with their new machines: iLife ’04 is installed. Don’t panic though, Apple just didn’t have the release candidate for iLife ’05 complete when the Mac mini went into production. The CD-ROM for iLife ’05 is included in the box, just pop it […]

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Dan Frakes' Mac Gems

Dan Frakes has posted the software titles mentioned is his “Mac Gems” conference session with Ted Landau at last week’s Macworld Expo SF 2005. Definitely a good read…

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iLife Software

No iPhoto Printing or Books for Australia

Seems we won’t be getting iPhoto printing and books down under according to a report from an Apple reseller who has spoken with Apple Australia. Straight from the horses mouth (by way of an authorised reseller contact of ours), it seems that Australia will NOT be getting iPhoto photo and book printing in the near […]

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MWSF05: A Look at iWork

Apple’s new iWork productivity suite strikes me as a curious beast. Pages and Keynote 2.0 make beautiful documents and presentations yet it seems that Apple recommends you have iLife on your system too. From Apple’s initial marketing pages (oh what a word to choose) it seems that integration is the word of the day – […]

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PowerBook Software

Capacity Meter

I recently ran into problems with one of the batteries in my 400MHz TiBook. The machine dropped into sleep mode without warning with about 40% remaining charge showing in the menu bar while running on its original 3600 mAh battery, so I downloaded Capacity Meter. This nifty utility reports not only the state of charge, […]