Available as a free download from the App Store the popular internet telephony app Skype.
Voice calls will only work over a Wifi network not via your cellular data network. I would imagine this was to placate the network providers such as O2 & AT&T etc.
Seems to work pretty well on our network here, there is obvioulsy no video support as the iPhone doesn’t have a forward facing camera (yet….)
Despite the technical specification from Apple saying the quad core Nehalem processor based Mac Pro only supports up to 2Gb RAM chips, a U.S reseller says they have successfully tested a 4GB Chip*
*Source Mac Rumors Forum
**Mach One has yet to put this to the test, but will edit this post as soon we are able.
How often do you find yourself copying & pasting URLs from within Safari into Mail.app or other emailer such as Microsoft Entourage?
Wouldn’t it be nice to actually send them the webpage?
Well you can!
in Safari, simply type Command-I when in the desired page, and hey presto your now in your email client showing the page in the new mail window.
neat eh?
We all know that Command-Shift-3 will screenshot your entire screen and that Command-Shift-4 will turn your pointer into cross hairs so you can draw a box around the desired area don’t we?
The problem is that often using the Command-Shift-4 method you end up with a few pixels on unwanted image & you then need to crop them down in either Preview, or other image editor such as Adobe Photoshop.
Most of the time I want to screenshot entire windows. If you type Command-Option-4 but the press the space bar your pointer should then turn into a camera, click on the desired window and you get a nice tidy image of the entire window.
NB this applies to Leopard users only
Just installed wordpress for the iPhone. A free app available on the iTunes appstore allowing me to blog from the iPhone.
EMC have announce this week that they have launched Retrospect 8 for Mac.
We’ve been waiting for this for quite some time now, I’ve been following the beta versions and provided it proves to be a stable application I’m pretty confident its the backup application Mac Servers have been waiting for.
Written from the ground up, Retrospect 8 has the following features:
please note currently the Retrospect engine can only be installed on Intel based Macs, you can still backup your PPC based Macs via the network client.
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Apple today released MacBook Pro Graphics Firmware Update 1.0 for all users of the new unibody 17″ MacBook Pro released in January.
This firmware update is recommended for all 17-inch MacBook Pro (Early 2009) users and addresses the appearance of vertical lines or distorted graphics on the notebook display.
Apple’s support document provides instructions on how to install the update and determine whether it successfully installs. The download weighs in at 770 KB.
Numerous users have reported in Apple’s discussion forums and elsewhere problems with lines and distortion on the new models, and this update appears to be intended to address these issues.
So last week we took delivery of our first United Digital 9116 PCIe RAID.
Unlike traditional RAIDs that connect via either a SCSI or Fibre card the United Digital 91xx series connect directly to the PCIe bus of the host Mac. This pretty much eliminates bottlenecks caused by traditional connectivity methods.
I like the design of this raid. it has a very simple easy to use web management console, easy to set-up email notifications for if things go wrong.
The system I was testing was a 9116 a 16 bay subsystem comprising of 8 x 750Gb SATA Hard Disks. This was connected to a 2.8GHz Quad Core Mac Pro running Mac OS 10.5.6 & 6Gb RAM.
Using Xbench the results were astounding: I was getting a sustained read speed of 669 MB/sec & sustained write speed of 470 MB/sec. I compared this against an Xserve RAID (7 x 250Gb HDD @ RAID 5) which could only muster read/ write speeds of around 140Mb/sec.
With performance figures like these, couple this with 10Gb Ethernet we could potentially have a serious lower cost rival to Xsan systems.
