The fastest our internet connections are, the more we download files, sometimes twice the same files.
A lot of us also often change the way they organize their files, they move them from a folder to another, make copies, backups.
All these everyday tasks lead to a single thing: MESS and DUPLICATES.
Duplicate files: lost HDD space, mess, and sometimes problems.
I just discovered a great tool: Singlemizer for Mac, easy to use, simple interface, quick and fast, it just brings order out of chaos and frees up disk space!
Just look how logical and relevant this application is (after the jump).
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Just uploaded this one on many forums, wanted to share it with MacAmour’s Mac lovers.
I should upload 2 screenshots since I do work on dual screens, but this is the main one.
The 10.6.3 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes that:
- improve the reliability and compatibility of QuickTime X
- address compatibility issues with OpenGL-based applications
- address an issue that causes background message colors to display incorrectly in Mail
- resolve an issue that prevented files with the # or & characters in their names from opening in Rosetta applications
- resolve an issue that prevented files from copying to Windows file servers
- improve performance of Logic Pro 9 and Main Stage 2 when running in 64-bit mode
- improve sleep and wake reliability when using Bonjour wake on demand
- address a color issue in iMovie with HD content
- improve printing reliability
- resolve issues with recurring events in iCal when connected to an Exchange server
- improve the reliability of 3rd party USB input devices
- fix glowing, stuck, or dark pixels when viewing video from the iMac (Late 2009) built-in iSight cameraFor detailed information on this update, please visit this website:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4014.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.
FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec is not a recognized format by iTunes.
To listen to a FLAC file on your Mac there are (in theory) 2 solutions: convert the file, or add a plugin to iTunes.
Since I’m not the kind of person that likes to mess a lot with my Mac, I prefer the first solution.
To me, MacFLAC is the perfect deal: free, fast and easy to use.
The possible output formats are WAVE and AIFF as you can see in the screenshot below:
Three steps to use MacFLAC: drag, drop, convert.
You can get it free from here.
Lotus Notes is the leading client for messaging, e-business, and collaboration. In combination with the Domino Server, Notes is the most powerful client available, delivering unmatched functionality, security and ease of use. Organizations can reduce costs and gain a competitive edge by enhancing productivity and by leveraging the value of e-business and collaboration with Lotus Notes.
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
- Select the application file and make a “command + i” to see the informations on that application, here is what I get:
- 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’:
- 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..
