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Archive for the ‘Quickies’ Category

Wordpress 2.5 is out

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Wordpress 2.5 has officially been released. It contains numerous updates and enhancements. Read all about it, here.

Mail.appetizer for Leopard!

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Woohoo! One of my favorite Apple Mail Plugins, Mail.Appetizer, has new betas out for Tiger and Leopard. I totally thought this software had gone bye-bye. I’m glad to see it’s still being developed.

Apple Ships Time Capsule

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Apple started shipping their new Time Capsule. Macfixit has listed some helpful links for getting things all set up.

“iPhone Software Roadmap” media event next week

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

It looks like Apple is going to fill us in on the iPhone SDK next Thursday (3/06), at 10:00am. [LINK]

Unsanity gains limited Leopard support

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Towards the goal of Leopard compatibility, Unsanity has released new betas of some of their popular apps, including FontCard 1.5.1b1, MenuMaster 1.4.3b1, Silk 2.1.4b1, FruitMenu 3.7b1, and WindowShade X 4.2b1. Check out this blog post for all the details.

Weekend YouTube outage underscores big Internet problem

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Very interesting article on Macworld RE: this weekends YouTube outage, and what makes the internet work the way it does. [LINK]

Zaping your PRAM after OSX 10.5.2 update

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

If you’re having issues after installing the recent 10.5.2, or Leopard Graphics updates, try zapping the PRAM. [LINK]

The Internet’s Undersea World

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Cool map illustrating the undersea cables used to connect us all. [LINK] [via Veerle]