iChat , one of the most famous built-in features of OS X is a fully featured instant messaging application which combines text, video and voice chat into one app, is about to be replaced with Messages.
iChat has always been a very versatile application offering powerful features supported by the fact that it works with a number of services such as Yahoo, GTalk, ICQ and the largest instant messaging community in the United States, AIM.
The Messages app will bring the following features:
- Unlimited messages to any Mac, iPhone, iPod touch or iPad.
- Start a conversation on your Mac and continue on any other device as it syncs between them all.
- The ability to send photos, videos and voice attachments between devices.
- Invoke a Facetime call from within the Messages application.
- Continue to use additional services such as AIM, Yahoo and Google as they are all built in to Messages.
The Messages app is currently in beta and can be downloaded from the official Apple website free of charge.
The 10.7.3 update is recommended for all OS X Lion users and includes general operating system fixes that improve the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac including fixes that:
Add Catalan, Croatian, Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, Slovak, Thai, and Ukrainian language support
Address issues when using smart cards to log into OS X
Resolve issues authenticating with directory services
Address compatibility issues with Windows file sharing
For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5048.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.
If you too loved that space wallpaper on Mac OS 10.7 Lion as seen on WWDC 2011, you can get it on MacAmour by clicking this link.
Enjoy! 
I discovered this Mac application in a very unusual way: when I’m too tired to think or do any intellectual activity, I often navigate through the screenshot sharing discussions in various Mac forums. And I was wondering what were that hat in these advanced, experienced or novice users’ menubars.
Did what anyone would have done: asked about that buzzing application.
Alfred is a quicklaunch application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web. Whether it’s maps, Amazon, eBay, Wikipedia, you can feed your web addiction quicker than ever before.
Usage is very intuitive as you can see in the below screenshot: results instantly appears as you type, it really blows out all of the other app launchers I’ve tried.
Invoking the application is as easy as starting a search through Spotlight, usage is similar to Google Desktop.
The application is free in its basic most known form, a powerpack version with extra features is also available.
The Powerpack is a set of incredibly powerful new features sitting on top of the stable and robust core of Alfred. Simple, quick and user-friendly, these features are deeply integrated with OS X to make you more productive than ever!
Discover more features of the Powerpack after the break.
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I’m very excited as the great fanatic I am of this product to announce the availability of Notes 8.5.1 for Mac.
Just follow this link to a copy.
According to IBM’s requirements, Notes 8.5 is for OS X 10.5.5 or higher and Intel only!
PS: IBM has never released a version 8.0 for OS X, as a result the most recent OS X version before the 8.5 is 7.0.3
- Not all third party softwares will be supported: Many rumors said Adobe CS3 won’t be supported, but it seems according to many beta tester it does work as well as many other applications.
- Invisible changes: do not expect for graphical improvement, this update is a performing boost taking all advantages of 64 bits. That means all apps included with Snow Leopard have been rewritten for 64-bit processors. Apps coded by third-party developers who opt to rewrite their software with 64-bit support will also be snappier.
- End of PPC: As you can see in this post, the PPC platform won’t be supported in this release.
As an additional reading, take a look at the Engadget review here.
I can’t wait no more to get 10.6… Here is a small collection of the “release dates” according to many known Apple bloggers:
- Daring Fireball John Gruber says August 28th.
- MacDailyNews: Friday, August 28th.
- TheAppleBlog reports rumors about August 24th.
- TUAW is supporting what Apple claimed: September.
- MacWorld: September too.
- LifeHacker: September too.
- MacRumors’ Forums: September 25th 2009 (Friday) for the release & “New iMacs released on 22nd September, 2009 with Snow Leopard.”
- Some other blogs thought it was June 8th…
I’d like it to be released as soon as possible, and we all Mac Fanatics know how long are 3 days of waiting… but I do believe it will be released and shipped in middle-September.
Because it seems there will be an Apple Event on September 7th…
Apple really wants to focus on the foundations and stability of the system with Snow Leopard, this means, to me, it can’t be released before September since it’s not about design and UI this time but it’s the Core.
You can see for example, the following image showing how slim the applications will be on SL compared to Leopard:
A new “Aurora” wallpaper and 34 other superb desktop images extracted from the upcoming version of Mac OS X code named “Snow Leopard”.
Click on a given wallpaper to see it in a full 2560 x 1600 resolution.
Enjoy!
