Some owners of Apple’s latest MacBook Pros with faster 7200RPM hard drives are reporting strange clicking and beeping noises along with performance issues. According to MacNN, though the cause of the problem is unclear, an Apple Support forum thread has many users suggesting that it is caused by an incompatibility between the Seagate hard drive’s […]
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SpamSieve Updated to 2.7.4
Michael Tsai’s must-have shareware program, SpamSieve, has just been updated to version 2.7.4. The new version, a 5.8 megabyte download, makes the following fixes and improvements: Improved compatibility with pre-release versions of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). SpamSieve is better able to recover from corpus files that were damaged due to disk errors. Improved […]
On Thursday, Roxio released version 9.0.5 of its Toast Titanium authoring software. The new version, available here, adds the following fixes and changes: Resolves issue where distortion may be recorded when using system audio capture. Resolves issue where waveform may not be drawn correct after updating to Mac OS X v10.5.6. Toast 10 Titanium requires […]
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Apple Releases Front Row 2.1.7 Update
Late Wednesday, Apple released Front Row 2.1.7, an update to its media control system for Mac OS X. The 12.6 megabyte download provides iTunes 8.1 compatibility and is available via Mac OS X’s Software Update feature. Front Row 2.1.7 requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later to install and run. If you’ve tried the update […]
There’s some interesting stuff buried within the depths of the Mac OS X file structure. Among these, according to MyAppleGuide, is a bit of code in Mac OS X’s Trackpad preference panethat would allow users of multitouch-capable trackpads such as those on the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros to define their own four-finger gestures. The […]