Happy New Year! There was a surprising amount of news over the holiday break, and Glenn Fleishman was quick off the mark to cover Intuit’s plans to release a Lion-compatible version of Quicken 2007, GadgetTrak’s new CameraTrace service for tracing stolen cameras, LogMeIn’s new remote-access app for iOS, GoDaddy’s dropping of support for the Stop Online Piracy Act, and Apple’s addition of a “Complete My Season” option for iTunes Store-purchased TV shows. Glenn also collected the top 10 most-read TidBITS stories of 2011, Adam followed up on the success of our TidBITS membership program and wrote the most popular story of the year about Google’s “Let It Snow” Easter egg, and Michael Cohen tracked down how iCloud’s Photo Stream interacts with multiple iPhoto libraries. Notable software releases since our last issue include Piezo 1.1 and iTunes 10.5.2.
Our TidBITS membership program is off to a great start, and we’re aiming for 2,000 members by the end of January. Adam shares details so far, along with the lessons we’ve learned in the process.
Intuit made the unexpected announcement that Quicken 2007 for Mac will receive an update in the early part of the second quarter of 2012 to make it compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
To get your browser into the holiday spirit, try searching Google on “let it snow”. Google has a few additional holiday tricks as well.
The folks at GadgetTrak have taken their camera-tracing database service out of beta and given it the name CameraTrace. You can search for serial numbers embedded in billions of uploaded photos for free, or pay $10 per camera for an active trace.
LogMeIn’s remote-access iOS app for reaching Mac and Windows desktops gets a new name and a new price: free. An in-app upgrade has been added for a Pro version that offers additional features.
If you have bought individual episodes for a given season of a television show, you can now pay the difference to purchase the entire season.
GoDaddy, the inexpensive domain name host, has experienced a firestorm in response to its inclusion on a list of firms that supported the stalled Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). It recanted its position. Sort of.
The top 10 TidBITS stories ranked by page view count in 2011 is an odd bunch — especially since it includes a number of popular articles from previous years. Here’s the list, and how they came to be so viewed.
iCloud’s Photo Stream can share your recent photos with all of your devices, including with multiple Macs. But not with multiple iPhoto libraries in the same account.
Notable software releases this week include Piezo 1.1 and iTunes 10.5.2.
That’s Sir Jonathan Ive now, but even he still can’t use an iPad during takeoff and landing on a commercial flight, though American Airlines pilots can. Also, Glenn and Adam discussed our new TidBITS membership program on MacVoices, and Apple announced that the Mac App Store has passed 100 million downloads.