In the first issue of the new year in past years, I've attempted to predict some of the big stories of the coming months with varying degrees of success
GarageBand impressions -- TidBITS Talk readers voice their initial opinions of GarageBand and its user interface, and also clear up differences between it and Apple's Soundtrack
If you've ever been a part of a decentralized working group, you're undoubtedly aware of the utility of shared conference calls; I've spent many an hour on conference calls for a variety of projects
Please accept my sincere apologies if the title of this article has raised your pulse along with your hopes. There is no WriteRight, and, speaking as a professional writer, with thousands of articles and numerous books under my belt, I'm comfortable saying that the Macintosh world doesn't have a word processor that's designed for writers
SubEthaEdit 2.0 Refines Collaboration -- The Coding Monkeys have released version 2.0 of SubEthaEdit, their unique real-time collaborative text editor
We have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to articles, so we wanted to let you know about some of the pieces we haven't had room to publish. They include Adam's in-depth look at switching from Now-Up-to-Date to iCal and BusySync, Doug McLean's hunt for applications that can help minimize desktop distractions and his overview of interesting Mac OS X screensavers, Glenn Fleishman's comparison of EtherPad with SubEthaEdit, and Dennis Wurster's discovery of a PayPal label printing workaround, among much else.
In this week's discussions, readers look at the new Safari 4 beta, dream of marrying SubEthaEdit to Dropbox, relate tales of woe concerning Time Machine, and wonder whether Google is getting special treatment when it develops applications for the iPhone.
iPhone developers' heads were exploding as Apple unloaded a truckload of new capabilities in the Developer Beta of the iPhone 3.0 software, now available. The built-in iPhone apps will also gain numerous welcome enhancements, and we can all look forward to trying them out mid-year.
Notable software releases this week include Default Folder X 4.3, PCalc 3.5, AirPort Client Update for MacBook and MacBook Pro, PDFpen 4.2, Safari 4.0.3, Cocktail 4.4.1, SubEthaEdit 3.5, and Audio Hijack Pro 2.9.2.
Google has shuttered its Google Wave live collaborative document editing and commenting system. We at TidBITS tried to use it and could never quite figure out whether it helped us or just confused us; apparently, that was true of everyone else, too.
Our favorite tool for simultaneous collaborative writing and editing was slated to disappear, as its programmers become members of the Google Wave team. Within a day of this bad news, Google and the developers did a 180.
Offers faster performance, can pause and resume text expansion, and improves installation process, (€19.99 new, free update for purchases within 2 years, 3 MB)
Notable software releases this week include Logic Pro 9.1, Main Stage 2.1, Radioshift 1.5.2, Apple Remote Desktop 3.3.2, and Typinator 3.7.
News abounds this week, with stories ranging from Microsoft’s acquisition of AOL to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security standardizing on Macs, with Hormel’s anti-spam campaign providing a brief diversion. In the product world, Geoff…
This week’s security vulnerability is real, and cuts to the core of Mac OS X. Read on for Adam’s look at the problem and how to protect yourself, along with Matt Neuburg’s explanation of how…