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About This Mac To Get Updated

Sweet — the About This Mac sys­tem app is get­ting updat­ing in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. See tuaw.com for more information.

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Hall of Fame iPhone Apps

If you’re look­ing for a great app for your iPhone/iPod touch, look no fur­ther than the iTunes App Store Hall of Fame: Angry Birds, Car­cas­sonne, Flight Con­trol, Instapa­per, and Reeder all make my per­sonal hall of fame choices. What are some of your favourite apps?

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Upgrading to iPhoto 11 Issues

There’s been some reports of peo­ple upgrad­ing to iLife 11 and the included iPhoto 11 wip­ing out their photo library. Be sure to have a com­plete backup (Time Machine or some­thing else) of your photo library before doing any sort of upgrade, but espe­cially this one it seems. There’s a tip on Mac­world involv­ing cor­rect­ing the […]

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ePub Export Added to Pages v4.04

ePub Export Added to Pages v4.04

Ear­lier today Apple released an update for iWork ’09 that squashes a num­ber of bugs in the appli­ca­tions included (Keynote, Pages & Num­bers) but one impor­tant added fea­ture is the abil­ity for Pages to export to the ePub for­mat that Apple uses in their iBooks store and appli­ca­tion. This allows any­one to pub­lish an ePub […]

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Help Haiti, Get Great Mac Software

Indie+Relief is not only a great way to help out with the relief efforts in Haiti — it’s also a great list of the huge vari­ety of indie soft­ware avail­able for the Mac. If you’re new to the Mac and haven’t dipped your toe into the huge ocean of great inde­pen­dently devel­oped soft­ware, this is […]

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Is MobileMe (.Me, .Mac, etc.) Worth It?

My MobileMe sub­scrip­tion recently expired (Full Dis­clo­sure: I had received my account as part of a pro­gram Apple offers to resellers as part of their train­ing web­site. I no longer work as a reseller) and so I’ve had to decide whether to renew my sub­scrip­tion or not. It’s $99USD/$109CDN per year for a MobileMe account. […]

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No Genius Mixes After Updating to iTunes 9

I was stumped by this. One of the new fea­tures of iTunes 9 is Genius Mixes: Meet Genius Mixes. This new fea­ture searches your iTunes library, finds songs that go great together, and cre­ates mul­ti­ple mixes you’ll love. All auto­mat­i­cally. These mixes are like chan­nels pro­grammed entirely with your music. You may dis­cover songs you […]

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