iPhone MMS hits US on September 25

AT&T has announced that on September 25th it will begin offering MMS service to its iPhone customers, solving one image problem and exacerbating another.… (View the rest of the article at iPhone MMS hits US on September 25)

New Sound Input Controls

Typically with Mac OS X you have the volume control slider in the menu bar, and then if you want to make any other changes you would have to open System Preferences -> Sound and then make your changes…. I presume this is new in Snow Leopard, since I have not seen this documented previously, and […]

MenuMeters 1.4b1

Another piece of the puzzle is almost done… Raging Menance Software has released a Snow Leopard ready beta of MenuMeters. I have missed having my network throughput & process status in the menu bar. Activity monitor is a good temporary replacement, but it’s no MenuMeter replacement…. Plus did I mention, MenuMeters is free? http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/

VMWare v2.05 & Snow Leopard

I have scientifically studied this yet…  After all, I haven’t even installed Bootcamp v3 drivers yet…  But it appears that VMWare boots my bootcamp partition significantly faster under Snow Leopard, then under Leopard…  We’re talking a 2-4 times speed up… It would normally take 3-7 minutes for VMWare to boot my bootcamp partition and return […]

First glances of Snow Leopard

Folks, For the last 4 months or so, I have been part of the Appleseed beta program for Snow Leopard, and overall I have to say that Apple has done a good job so far with Snow Leopard. I just got the general release, and so far, I have run into no issues show stopping […]

Snow Leopard System Requirements

Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6)’s system requirements are: Mac computer with an Intel processor 1GB of memory 5GB of available disk space DVD drive for installation So do not consider running Snow Leopard on any PPC machines… It simply will not work… But PowerPC (PPC) applications will work with the Rosetta translation layer, as […]

Snow Leopard & iSync… Missing anything yet?

Folks, Engadget has mentioned that it appears that Snow Leopard’s version of iSync is missing the profiles for several older Palm PDA’s… While that maybe annoying, I would point out that iSync has been slowly losing ground over the last couple of years…. As single device PDA’s have been replaced with SmartPhones… It’s not really […]