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Apple to Drop Restocking Fees

Apple are reported to have held staff meetings this weekend to unveil a new policy, regarding dropping current restocking fees on on January 11th. This fee is applied if you returned an opened product to the store and a 10% fee was charged. There do not seem to be any […]

Apple Mac App Store Opens

Apple has launched the Mac App Store today in 90 countries and features more than 1,000 apps. The Mac App Store is like the App Store for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. You need to install the App store and either set up or login with your Apple ID the […]

Apple Bans Demos and Betas from Mac App Store

Apple has banned demos, and beta apps for the App store, saying; “Your website is the best place to provide demos, trial versions, or betas of your software for customers to explore. The apps you submit to be reviewed for the Mac App Store should be fully functional, retail versions […]

Apple Release iOS 4.2 for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

Apple® today announced that iOS 4.2, the latest version of the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, is available today for download for iPad™, iPhone® and iPod touch®. iOS 4.2 brings over 100 new features from iOS 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 to iPad including Multitasking, Folders, Unified Inbox, Game Center, […]

Old Mac as a backup server

Christopher Breen writes on Macworld on how to “Use an old Mac as a backup server” The article is well worth a read, covering the use of Retrospect 8, ChronoSync and ChronoAgent amongst others. “ChronoSync. Although its name hints that it’s a synchronization tool, with version 4 ChronoSync became a […]

MacScan Anti-Spyware Program Free

MacScan an anti-spyware program for OS X is free today. All you have to do is download and run the 5.1MB installer. When prompted, click ‘purchase macscan’ and enter the coupon code ‘PIRATE’ during checkout. The download, install, purchase and registration must all be completed by Monday, September 20th 2010 […]

Ping Users Top One Million

Apple announced that in less than 48 hours since its launch on Wednesday, more than one million users have joined Ping, its new social network for music which lets users follow their favorite artists and friends to discover what music they’re talking about, listening to and downloading. “One-third of the […]

Mac Computer Expo 2010

Over 1000 Mac and computer enthusiasts are expected to converge at Mac Computer Expo 2010 (MCE), hosted by Santa Rosa’s North Coast Mac Users Group (NCMUG), on Saturday, October 2, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. at the Petaluma Community Center in Petaluma, California. Now in its 17th year, MCE has […]

Mac OS X Users Can Now Enjoy 54 New Dictionaries

Paragon Software Group (http://www.penreader.com), a leading software developer for mobile devices and desktop computers, today announced the immediate release of 54 SlovoEd dictionaries for Mac OS X users. The SlovoEd 7.0 series offers original premium content in more than 30 of the most popular languages directly from the world’s top […]

Celebrity Visual Face Trivia 1.0 released for iPhone and iPad

Soupface LLC, developer of the Soupface photo morphing application, today announced their latest entertaining and challenging application called “D Morph Game – Celebrity Visual Face Trivia”. The idea for D Morph Game stemmed from the photo morphing application called Soupface. Soupface is an iPhone application that allows users to instantly […]

Speed Download 5.2.19 with Safari 5 Extensions

Yazsoft today released Speed Download 5.2.19. Developed exclusively for Mac OS X, Speed Download is an easy to use, powerful and reliable download manager. Speed Download sets a higher standard for download manager innovation, and is expressly designed to be a central, unified hub for almost all downloading and file […]