http://www.appleology.com Apple News, Opinions, Reviews, and Tips for every Mac user Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:09:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Magnetism Studios (aka Monkey Business Labs), makers of some awesome Dashboard widgets and some insanely great tees, has released a new application called Filemark Maker for Mac OS X that allows an iPhone or iPod Touch user to convert any Safari-compatible media file into a bookmarklet, making it possible to ... http://www.appleology.com/2008/01/27/store-files-on-your-iphone-or-itouch-without-jailbreak-with-filemark-maker/ Apple's been busy lately refining the user interface OS X for the upcoming Leopard release. However, there are several remaining user interface elements that have yet to be updated to the new Aqua-dark UI. And with rumors that Leopard has reached release candidate status with the latest seed, I'm worried ... http://www.appleology.com/2007/09/25/dear-apple-please-finish-leopards-ui/ Apple today seeded version 9A559 of Leopard, which according to MacRumors, fixes "two known issues for Leopard. The two issues described involve upgrading from Tiger to Leopard on PowerPC systems in certain scenarios, and HP printer drivers." With this seed, Apple continued to polish Leopard's user interface. New app icons, new ... http://www.appleology.com/2007/09/22/leopard-9a559-user-interface-improvements/ Let's start small with the Shuffle. New pastel colors. Still $79 and same memory capacities. Yep, that's pretty much it. Let's move on. The New Nano One of the biggest announcements at the Keynote was the new video-playing, "stubby" Nano. Now that the Nano has video, all iPods with a screen have video. ... http://www.appleology.com/2007/09/08/the-beat-goes-on-announcement-roundup/ Apple has recently seeded an update to its beta-testing developers, with codenames 9A527 and 9A528A. Developers are claiming the OS is close to receiving final candidate status. The update features greatly improved performance and stability, as well as a surprising number of UI tweaks. Developers are also noticing some of the ... http://www.appleology.com/2007/08/25/leopards-new-space-themed-welcome-video-and-desktop-wallpaper/ The Mac Mini seemed like it had a bright future ahead of itself when Steve Jobs first introduced it at MacWorld 2005. It was introduced as the perfect switcher's machine, since it was "bare bones", cheap, and allowed for connection to third party displays, keyboards, and mice. When Steve introduced ... http://www.appleology.com/2007/08/08/why-apples-current-mac-mini-strategy-is-failing/ iMovie has always made it impossible to produce advanced slideshows, especially when setting custom Ken Burns start-and-end frames. The problem used to lie with iMovie's sluggish importing and encoding functions, however the problem seems to have been fixed with iMovie '08, thanks to Apple's decision to completely rewrite the application. ... http://www.appleology.com/2007/08/08/imovie-08-makes-custom-slideshow-production-easy/ Today the Mac Mini survived and finally gets a speed bump and new upgrade options, including dual-layer superdrive options and additional hard drive and RAM options. The 1.83 GHz combo drive model is available for $599 and the 2.0GHz superdrive model is available for $799. Each models have standard 1GB RAM, ... http://www.appleology.com/2007/08/07/new-core-2-duo-mac-minis-aluminum-keyboards/ iWork '08 introduces many new features, which Steve said "Completes the productivity suite". Apple has published a set of webpages that tour each new feature in Pages, Keynote, and Numbers. The features in this productivity suite really do make it a fierce competitor with Microsoft Office. The new innovative features, ... http://www.appleology.com/2007/08/07/iwork-08-highlights/ Apple has published a twenty minute guided tour of the new iLife '08 application suite, highlighting the key features and demonstrating the user interface. The guided tour is available for viewing on Apple's website. The user interface on these new applications are stunning and fresh, and it truly does seem to ... http://www.appleology.com/2007/08/07/ilife-08-guided-tour-highlights/