Archive - May 2008

Over the last four months David Alison has transitioned from adding a Mac to his menagerie of computers to becoming a Mac convert, basically walking away from Windows. According to his latest blog post the Mac has rekindled a long lost passion for computers.

The Digital Lifestyle will be providing live coverage before, during, and after Steve Jobs' keynote address at Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference, Monday June 9th. Live video coverage will begin at noon ET / 9AM PT, one hour before the scheduled start of the Keynote. Throughout the Keynote, The Digital Lifestyle will summarize and comment on the latest details from blogs across the internet.

Macgamestore today announced the availability of Cooking Academy for the Mac on its web site. Developed by Fugazo, Inc, Cooking Academy teaches you how to master the skills of chopping, flipping, frying, and more!

Oakland, Ca - SuperSync today takes another step toward simplifying the process of managing iTunes libraries across multiple Macs, PCs, and iPods, with the release of SuperSync 2.4. Combining power with simplicity, SuperSync lets users visually compare, merge, and access their media files from anywhere.

SuperSync 2.4 adds a dozen new features and builds on a three-year effort to make moving content from one media library to another easy and reliable. This release includes enhanced metadata transferring, improved UI, iPod content importing, expanded media types, and new media filters.

Time Machine is great - simple and easy to use. The challenge is what to do when it stops working, especially with simple error messages that offer no explanation of what to do to fix a problem. In today's blog post David Alison walks through what he did to fix an error that stopped Time Machine from working.

nova media unveils the missing link between OS X and cell phones!

Berlin, May 29, 2008 -- Most cell phone manufacturers do not offer a Macintosh solution, but nova media bridges the gap with FoneLink 2.0. The cell phone suite offers a familiar Mac-like solution to exchange files, synchronize data, manage SMS text messages and to backup and restore cell phone contents.

"FoneLink 2.0 is completely rewritten. It is fast, reliable, and offers a Bluetooth assistant to pair a cell phone to the Mac, if needed." states Jan Fuellemann, PR spokesperson at nova media. "FoneLink 2.0 supports many cell phones from Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson."

Second Gear is pleased to announce the release of Today 1.1.1, the Mac OS X application for managing iCal events and tasks. Version 1.1.1 is a maintenance release that addresses several issues with Spaces and general application usability as reported by our users. It also includes native localization for French and German users. Full release notes can be found at the Second Gear Website. Today 1.1.1 may be purchased for $15.00 USD and offers a fully featured 10 day trial period.

MacMegasite readers can use the coupon code MACMEGA05 for 10% off through Monday, June 2.

BeLight Software announced the release of an update to its Disc Cover design software to support HP Tattoo labels. The free 2.1.1 update is available for download; Disc Cover costs $34.95. A demo is available:
http://www.belightsoft.com/download/download.php

Apple's 10.5.3 release reportedly included an update that allows people to sync the Address Book with Google Contacts. David Alison writes that even though it doesn't work on most Macs that's a good thing.

Apple has released a new build of the iPhone SDK, Beta 6 Build 9M2192. This version requires Mac OS X 10.5.3, which was released earlier today.