Section: Mac

16 Top Tips For Your iPod

February 04, 2007 by Jason

Love them or hate them, they’re here to stay. Apple’s iPod is the top mp3 player on the market by far and 80% of us have one. To get more out of your iPod and mp3 collection, then check out these cool tips. Ranging from how to prolong battery life to how to copy songs from an iPod to how to merge two songs into one, the article’s selection is certainly worth a read.
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Boot Leaner

February 03, 2007 by Jason

You may think a certain program is slowing your system down or actually hanging it for a few moments as soon as it boots. If so, try starting Windows in “lite” mode. Click Start | Run, then type msconfig and press Enter. When the System Configuration Utility loads, click the Startup tab; you’ll be surprised to see all the programs you’re loading at start-up. For info, Google the ones that are questionable or otherwise annoying before unchecking them, and reboot
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The Incoming iPhone

February 02, 2007 by Jason

The iPhone, as Jobs proudly dubbed the device to thunderous applause (take that Linksys), will be three devices in one: a cell phone, a wide-screen iPod with touch controls, and an Internet communications… Read More»

Microsoft Smartphone Zune to Outperform the iPhone (Apple Version)

February 02, 2007 by Jason

CrunchGear has info that the Microsoft Execs are masterminding the Zune Phone as you read this news. According to CrunchGear it will be a smartphone that works homogeneously with the Zune marketplace. It will most likely not, however, run Windows Mobile. Rather it will make use of an interface similar to the current Zune, an interface considered among the best available on audio players.

Connectivity is the major concern of the device. It is said that it will be able to sync with the Xbox 360 and stream video from the system to the phone via a wireless data connection. This would be pivotal in Microsoft is proliferation of its media ambitions. Not only does it already have millions of 360s in homes capable of downloading movies, itd be able to distribute those videos directly to its phones. Speculation perhaps, but probably a much faster route to a larger GSM market than the Apple unit.

We have just received a sound tip that Microsoft is working on its very own phone to be branded under the Zune moniker. Our tipsters inform us that Microsoft execs are in meetings today hammering out details of the device and developing strategies and timescales for its release.
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Create, Print Envelopes, Labels On Your Mac

February 02, 2007 by Jason

Last week, someone asked me for my fax number. I thought, “How quaint.” Seriously, there are some day-to-day office functions that are not email, web site related.

So it goes with mailing labels, envelopes, addresses. Old fashioned? Yes. For some. For others, it’s a factory job with Mail Factory.

Most of us at Mac360 have our favorite Mac applications and, as the Mac platform grows and software writers improve their wares, we have favorite developers, too.

BeLight Software falls into that category, and we’ve reviewed nearly every Mac application they publish. BeLight ”gets it” and understands what a Mac application should look like and feel like.
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Apple iPhone: The full specifications

February 01, 2007 by Jason

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So, after months (years) of speculation and rumour, Apple has finally announced the iPhone in all its glory.

PcTips box has already covered the initial communications aspects, and what it might mean for UK consumers if and when it arrives in Britain, plus reactions from the likes of Orange and Nokia (scroll to end of this article for the links) so in this article I’ll take a look at the key features of this ‘revolutionary’ new mobile phone.
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Macworld 2007: Axiotron unveil the ModBook “Mac Tablet”

February 01, 2007 by Jason

I’m sure there are plenty of Mac users who’ve wished that Apple would create a tablet version of their notebook computers, but so far it hasn’t happened.

Axiotron to the rescue, who seem to have done a fantastic job at converting the latest MacBook machines into ModBooks – Mac OS X based tablet computers.
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10 Tricks To Play On Your New iPhone

February 01, 2007 by Jason

1. Spin the iPhone

iPhone is accelerometer detects when you rotate the device from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display, so you immediately see the entire width of a web page or a photo in its proper landscape aspect ratio.

See how fast you can rotate the iPhone before the operating system simply gives up trying to reorient what is on the screen.
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Make Windows XP look like Mac OS X

January 29, 2007 by Jason

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