Michael E. Cohen
Michael E. Cohen has worked as a teacher, a programmer, a Web designer, a multimedia producer, and a certified usability analyst. One of the developers of the first commercial ebooks, Michael is the author of several such works, including the compendious Take Control of Pages.
Eliminates crashing bugs reintroduced by version 2.0.8, as well as fixing a Netflix-related crashing bug. (Free, 15.8 MB)
On Tuesday, September 6th, 2011, Michael S. Hart passed away at the age of 64. Hart was considered by many the inventor of the ebook, and was the founder of Project Gutenberg, the well-known and highly regarded online library of free ebooks. It’s no exaggeration to say that Hart’s work was a driving inspiration to many pioneers of electronic publishing. We all owe him an enormous debt.
Major new release adds more than 90 new features, chief among them Lion integration, including LaunchPad, Mission Control, and full-screen support for Windows applications. ($79.99 new, $49.99 upgrade, $39.99 student edition, free update for purchases after 1 August 2011, 275 MB)
Lion has slain Rosetta, and, as collateral damage, Quicken 2007 and earlier versions of this personal finance tracking package. To discover the best post-Rosetta replacement for your needs, you need to ask yourself some questions.
Software Update 4.3 for Apple TV (second generation) adds TV show purchasing, streaming access to previous purchases, and access to Vimeo.
Apple announced the highest quarterly revenues ($28.6 billion) and earnings ($7.3 billion) in the company’s history, new quarterly records for iPhone and iPad sales, and a new June quarter record for Mac sales.
With Mac OS X Lion available only from the Mac App Store, you might wonder how long it will take to download Apple’s latest beast. Here’s how to guesstimate.
Sixty-one artists are performing at the iTunes Music Festival in London through the rest of July, and Apple is streaming those performances live all month. You can watch the performances either in the iTunes Store via iTunes on your computer, or via the free iTunes Festival London 2011 app, which is designed for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. If you watch it on an iOS device, you can use AirPlay to stream it to an Apple TV 2 to see it on the big screen.
Code 42 Software has supplemented its backup offerings for individual users and enterprises with a new backup service tailored for the small and medium-sized business market.
Apple has released what is very likely its last pre-Lion Mac OS X update, bundling in bug fixes, security improvements, and enhancements that prepare the Mac App Store for the release of Lion.
Voyager’s Expanded Books project, which created the first popular ebooks (on floppy disk! in HyperCard!), began on Bloomsday, 1990.
Sleeptracker is a wristwatch that watches you sleep and tries to wake you at the optimum time. However, little glitches may make you toss and turn.
In addition to Apple’s clearing the decks of some long-standing gotchas and complaints about iOS, the big news is that iOS 5 will cut the cord and allow iOS devices to operate entirely separately from a Mac or PC. And there’s some other cool stuff in iOS 5 as well.
Joe Kissell’s “Take Control of Speeding Up Your Mac” completes his Mac Fitness Trilogy with a comprehensive collection of tested tweaks and tips to get your Mac firing fast on all cores — and if slow performance is not your Mac’s only problem, Joe’s just-released “Take Control of Troubleshooting Your Mac, Second Edition” provides helpful diagnostic and repair techniques. Finally, “Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac, Second Edition” helps you keep problems from happening in the first place.
Rosetta may well not be in Mac OS X Lion. Should Michael Cohen just “get over it,” or is that not a helpful way to discuss the results of a change that brings with it real consequences?