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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

LOTS of big Lotus news today but the one that has my full attention is the release of 8.5.1 scheduled for October 12! This brings the much anticipated support for the iPhone. No, not “uber-ultra lite” – a real, integrated support of Lotus Notes email, calendar and contacts on the iPhone complete with all sorts of corporate security addressed.

One other really important announcement buried in the full announcement:

THE complaint of our users who have been using Lotus Traveler (on non-iPhone devices) has been the lack of a corporate address book. This statement suggests that the new release of Traveler addresses it for at least the iPhone (probably others as well).

Other BIG news included the announcement that Designer and Lotus Mobile Connect are now free (see your specific license details for exact details). Both are huge announcements as it further shows that Lotus Notes is a complete solution that addresses a wide variety of business needs – not just “that other” email platform.

Why there are no viruses for OS X?

• OS X is built on UNIX. UNIX was a multi user system with a security architecture built into it at the beginning. WINDOWS came from a single user architecture with security and multi user capability as an after thought.
• UNIX had networking built into it from the beginning, again in Windows this was bolted in at a later date.
• Windows built Internet Explorer into the O/S at a very deep level, and allowed code execution within the browser. In OS X the browser is a completely separate application, its not a integral part of the OS. IMHO, this is the fundamental screw-up Microsoft made, as they created so many hooks into which someone can attack the OS.
• In earlier Windows everything ran as the system user, so the capability to compromise an entire system was easier. (see reason 1)

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This is a trick I use to save space on my Macs HDDs, and it is impressing how much space you can save. The idea is to remove the additional languages installed by any application to your HD.

To make it, 2 easy steps, the result is -90% of space size occupied by each application (iChat went from 114 MB to 12 MB) and of course, faster to load applications.

Before making it, go to your applications folder, and sort the applications by size, then select on of the applications that takes the more space, for this tutorial, I’m going to select Mail.app

1. Select the application file and make a “command + i” to see the informations on that application, here is what I get:

   

2. Go to languages and select the languages you don’t need then click on the “-” button in the information window under the languages, you’ll be invited to move them to the trash, and click ‘OK’:

   

3. Let’s now take a look at how much space the application takes now on the HD:

   

Results: the application used to take 227.5 MB and now it takes 27.9 MB, we saved 200 MB!!!
Try doing it with the whole iLife suite and you’ll get approx 2 GB of additional space in your HD..

Here’s the easy to use and powerful tool that many OS users are looking for: FDF (Find Duplicate Files) for Leopard.
The aim of this application is to find duplicates on any Leopard based Macintosh computer, as you can see in the screenshot below, the application is very simple, what you can’t see is how fast it is:

In this screenshot, I asked FDF to look for duplicates in my iDisk and it found 9,084 duplicates on a total of 22,724 files scanned!! I’m very paranoid in my backups through my iDisk it seems

Finding duplicates with this amazing application can be done in 2 steps:
Step 1, click on the + and select the folder(s) (or drive(s)) you want it to fetch for duplicates in,
Step 2, click on the “find duplicates” button.

It is that easy! I saved approximatively a GB of disk space thanks to this application and of course got rid of many duplicate files.
You can give it a try by downloading a 7 days free version of FDF from Araxis website.

Poker Macintosh compatible websites

Finding poker rooms that offer Mac compatible software has always been
tough for poker players, and there have been very few sites that have
traditionally offered software supporting those Mac systems.

But, like the market itself, things evolve. More and more poker rooms mow
see the increasing demand for Mac poker and have started to release
compatible software. Still, out of hundreds of online poker rooms, only a handful currently offer poker for Macs.

To make things a little easier, we found a list of the best online poker sites for Macs that offer what Mac poker players have been asking for.

You may have heard of many Twitter clients, but none of them had that magic “Apple touch” combo: power + design + simplicity.

But finally I found the perfect deal with Tweetie. Fell in love with this application from the moment I opened atebits‘ homepage.

The best way to introduce you to this application is a screenshot:

As you can see, the design of this application is slick and clean, no surcharge, just four (4) buttons in the left side with more than 5 great features.
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Here’s an easy to follow tutorial on how to migrate from a PPC Mac to a Mac-Intel, the aim of this tutorial is to avoid using the migrate utility from OS X which isn’t still 100% safe.

1. Repair the hard drive and permissions using Disk Utility.
2. Backup your data. This is vitally important in case you make a mistake or there’s some other problem.
3. Connect a Firewire cable between your old Mac and your new Intel Mac.
4. Startup your old Mac in Target Disk Mode.
5. Startup your new Mac for the first time, go through the setup and registration screens, but do NOT migrate data over. Get to your desktop on the new Mac without migrating any new data over.

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