Blogger Stats FREE

Everyone who blogs with Google's Blogger blog publishing service must check this out.

"We’re very excited about the most recent creation from Blogger in Draft, Blogger Stats. Blogger stats makes it easier than ever to get all sorts of real-time traffic data for your blog, right from the comfort of your Blogger dashboard.

Since Stats are part of Blogger, you don't have to sign up for another service, or embed any code in a gadget."

ALSO SEE: Google Analytics for Enterprise-class web analytics.

Panther is Breaking

Apple® Mac OS X 10.3 Panther is breaking...

First introduced in October 2003 it has lasted
almost seven years as a viable operating system.

The Internet browsers supported are no longer
something, blah, blah, advanced features
on the Internet, jibberish, blah, blah, blah...



All those who are currently using 10.3 Panther
are strongly advised to upgrade to the newer
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger at a minimum, to be able
to use all these new fangled Internet things...

Check out Mac OS X 10.4: System requirements

Google Email Uploader

Currently this free open source application  is only available for Google Apps-hosted Gmail accounts and not standard Gmail accounts, but what it does is amazing.

"When you launch Google Email Uploader, it displays any Mail, Eudora, or Thunderbird mailboxes it finds in their default locations. You can also manually point the program to messages—in Mail mailboxes, mbox files, or maildir folders—stored elsewhere."

READ: Google Email Uploader gets your old e-mail into Gmail
By Dan Frakes, Macworld.com

TuneRanger: iTunes Sync

"TuneRanger connects all your iTunes-running computers together over any network. Music, video, and playlists can then be synchronized, copied or merged with the click of a button. Buy a song on one computer, add an album cover or star rating, and all changes are updated everywhere. Easy."

"TuneRanger's networking system is cross-platform so you can connect and sync iTunes libraries running on Mac OS X with iTunes libraries running on Windows XP, Vista or any combination."

*1-User license is good for 5 same-platform computers - that’s $6 per CPU. Add a second platform (5+ computers) and save $10 off the order price.


$29.99

Happy 26th Birthday Macintosh!

DATELINE: January 24, 1984

Apple Computer releases

The Macintosh Computer

1984 Macintosh Super Bowl Ad

DATELINE: January 22, 1984

the now famous 1984 ad during the Super Bowl.

iPhone Unlimited Voice/Data for $100!

"Previously, iPhone users paid $100 per month for unlimited voice plan plus another $30 for unlimited data.

Starting Monday, however, AT&T is charging $100 a month for unlimited voice and data. Family Talk plans feature unlimited voice and data for $180 (assuming two iPhones). Texting prices remain unchanged, at $20 for unlimited plans and $30 for Family Talk Plans."



READ: AT&T drops price of iPhone's unlimited voice and data plan
by Philip Michaels, Macworld.com

You can read the full details of AT&T’s new prices, including pricing for feature phones and quick message devices, at the wireless provider’s Website.

Want to switch over to the new unlimited voice and data plan? You can make the move on Monday without penalty or contract extension using AT&T’s online account management tool.

Nexus One vs Android vs iPhone

Google is now selling physical products directly to consumers with it's newly released Nexus One™ "Superphone".



• Android 2.1 Operating System
• 3.7-inch AMOLED, 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreen
• 5 megapixel camera with LED flash
• Video captured at 720x480
• 1GHz Snapdragon CPU
• 512MB of RAM
• 512MB of ROM
• 4GB SD card (expandable to 32GB of memory).



Bravo Google! This is amazing.

This is 2001, er 2010 the way it should be...

with Smartphones and Superphones.

I still miss Pan Am :(



READ: Nexus One review
by Joshua Topolsky, Endgadget

READ: Google slides king's pawn to Nexus One, takes on Apple
by Dan Moren, Macworld.com

READ: Google Officially Debuts Nexus One Android Phone
by Warren Riddle, Switched

READ: What the Nexus One isn't
by Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service

Happy Birthday Apple Inc.

On January 3, 1977 Apple Computer was incorporated.

Happy Birthday Apple

from all of us in the Mac World.

READ: Interview with Rob Janoff, designer of the Apple logo
by Ivan, Creative Bits

Star Wars in ASCII via Terminal

If your Netflix hasn't yet arrived,
you "forgot" to pay the cable bill,
or you just don't want what you always have...

Then watch Star Wars Episode IV in ASCII via Terminal.

Open Terminal and type...

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

then press Enter



Have a Happy Star Wars Holiday Everyone!

Unreal 3 Engine for iPhone!

Even if you're not a "gamer" this is great news for all users
as this shows the amount of power "under the hood" of the
new hand held computer/phones from Apple. Awesome!

The bad news is there is still no port of Unreal Tournament 3
for the Mac, yet, but it's coming, so I've read...



"Anandtech spent some time with Epic Games' Mark Rein last week and was shown a demo of the Unreal Engine 3 running on a 3rd Generation iPod Touch. The demo included a flythrough as well as a playable level from Unreal Tournament.

The Unreal Engine 3 is a modern 3D gaming engine
which powers games such as Bioshock, Gears of War
and Unreal Tournament 3.



The game engine requires OpenGL 2.0 so this will restrict the game to 3rd generation iPod Touches and iPhone 3GSs only. Epic is planning on making the engine available to licensees at some point, opening the door eventually to Unreal-powered iPhone games."

READ: Epic's Unreal Engine 3 Ported to iPod Touch and iPhone 3GS
by Arnold Kim, MacRumors.com


Click to enlarge photo

A comparison of Unreal Engine 1, 2 and 3's rendering capabilities using the Malcolm model from Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Unreal Tournament 3 side-by-side.
(Unreal Engine, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Gmail gets Merge in Contacts

Gmail Contacts is quickly becoming a highly portable,
enterprise level, contact management system!

"Managing a big address book can be a challenge, so it's no surprise that the top request for Google contacts is a fast, easy way to merge duplicate contacts. You've been able to merge contacts one-by-one for a while, but now we've added a single button that merges all your duplicate contacts at once. To clean up your contact list in one fell swoop, just click the "Find duplicates" button in the contact manager, review the merge suggestions (and uncheck any suggestions you don't want merged), and hit the "Merge" button.

If you've been considering getting all your contacts into Gmail or syncing your Gmail contacts to your phone, now's the time to do it. As we've written about previously, you can sync your contacts to a wide variety of devices (including Android, iPhone, Blackberry, SyncML, etc). So if you were dreading spending hours getting your contacts in order, now you can do it with a couple clicks."

READ: One button to merge all duplicate contacts
by Dominik Marcinski, Software Engineer
posted on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 2:54 PM
on The Official Gmail Blog

Google Chrome for Mac!

Google has released it's Google Chrome web browser
for Mac OS X 10.5 or later (Intel only).

Fast start-up
Google Chrome launches in a snap.

Fast loading
Google Chrome loads web pages quickly.

Fast search
Search the web right from the address bar.

Learn about Google Chrome »

I'll be testing this as soon as I can...

VisualHub DISCONTINUED :(

I am sad to report that VisualHub has been DISCONTINUED!

If you have VisualHub or AudialHub, here are directions
on how to back them up for safe keeping:

READ: How to Back Up VisualHub and AudialHub
(iSquint is self-contained. just copy the app itself)

For anyone who has come to rely on it's excellent video conversion over the years the wait for the next app to replace it is over...

now use... ReduxEncoder 1.2.6 beta for Mac OS X 10.5
at The Blog of st373n

VLC Remote app for iPhone

"You already know that VLC is a highly portable multi-media player/server available for Mac, Windows, Linux, etc., capable of reading most audio and video formats (AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, WMV, ASF, FLV (Flash), MP3, MP4, OGG, AAC, FLAC, etc...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols." VLC playback Features

FREE VLC media player 1.0.3

Download VLC (Mac OS X 10.5 (PowerPC), 19 MB)

Now there's a FREE VLC Remote Control app for iPhone.
I downloaded mine straight from the App Store app.
There's also a paid version of VLC Remote that's allows you
to browse and select files, and manage your playlist.
At only $2.99 it was well worth it!

READ: VLC Remote App Controls The Baddest Media Player Via iPhone
by John Mahoney, GIZMODO.com

ShareTool extends Bonjour over 'net

"Yazsoft’s ShareTool lets you securely share, over the Internet, all the services on a particular computer, as well as all the services that computer can reach on its local network.

...printing, screen sharing, iTunes Sharing, and iPhoto Sharing, as well as third-party services from sources as varied as Skype and BusyCal—if software advertises its services using Bonjour, ShareTool can make them available over the Internet."

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard

READ: ShareTool extends Bonjour over the 'net
by Glenn Fleishman, Macworld.com

Pod to Mac: Transfer Software

"Pod to Mac is an iPod, iPad or iPhone to Mac transfer software that lets users transfer iPhone, iPod Touch and iPod songs, playlists, videos, tv shows and much more to a Mac and into iTunes. Pod to Mac can rip music from all iPods and iPhones works with or without jail-breaking."

Computer Requirements:

    * Mac OSX 10.5, 10.6 or later
    * iTunes 8, 9 or later
    * A USB Connector for the iPod device


iPod Compatibility:
Works with all, iPods, iPhones and iPads including:

    * iPad (all generations)
    * iPhone (all generations)
    * iPod Classic (all generations)
    * iPod Touch (all generations)
    * iPod Shuffle (all generations)
    * iPod Nano (all generations)

This is a great "Crash Recovery Solution"
"If your computer crashed or you just bought a new one, Pod to Mac is the ideal solution to move your music back on to the computer. Simply download, install and click auto-transfer and everything will be back the way it was before."

Doom Classic for iPhone!

Boo! Spooky! Scary!

The official iPhone and iPod touch port of id Software's Doom is now available.

Priced at $6.99, the 76.8MB download packs a total of 36 levels across four episodes: Knee-Deep in the Dead, Shores of Hell, Inferno, and Thy Flesh Consumed.

Along with single-player, the touch-controlled game packs four-person competitive and cooperative multiplayer modes.

READ: Doom Classic Arrives on iPhone
by Chris Faylor, shacknews

iTunes Library on External Drive

"When it comes time to move your iTunes library, it can often be a bit of a challenge to figure out exactly what pieces you need to move and how to go about doing this.

Moving Your Content to a New Hard Drive: The Wrong Way
A very common mistake made by many users is to simply try and move their entire iTunes Media folder to a new location and update the iTunes Media folder path in iTunes’ preferences. In some cases this may work, but in reality you will risk iTunes losing track of some or all of your media files in the process.

Consolidate: The Right Way
Start by going into your iTunes Advanced preferences, and changing the iTunes Media folder path to whatever new location you want your iTunes media files to be stored in. This will usually be an external hard drive, but it can be any valid path, including a secondary hard drive or even a network share.

Once you have updated the iTunes Media folder location, simply select File, Library, Organize Library… (in iTunes 8, this option was “Consolidate Library” and in iTunes 7 and prior, it was located on the “Advanced” menu)

Since iTunes copies the media content rather than moving it, you will probably also want to delete your iTunes media files from their original locations."

READ: Transferring your iTunes Library
by Jesse David Hollington, iLounge

Pwnage Tool 3.1 is OUT

"The iPhone hacking faithful can now unlock and jailbreak their original iPhone, iPhone 3G, and first-generation iPod Touch devices with the much-awaited PwnageTool 3.1. Unfortunately, the hacking tool does not yet support the iPhone 3GS or the new iPod Touch, but an update is expected soon.

Arriving only a week after Apple released the 3.1 software update for the iPhone and iPod touch, DevTeam has set free Pwnage Tool 3.1. The software allows you to create and install custom firmware packages to jailbreak your Apple device and also use SIM cards from carriers other than AT&T (or the original carrier you purchased your iPhone from).

As usual, a kind reminder that jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod touch is not something that Apple likes you to do and it will void your warranty. But if you know what you are doing (and follow the instructions closely) Pwnage Tool will give you access to the Cydia app store, a place full of apps that allow you to further customize your iPhone and also use many of the apps that Apple rejected from its own app store."

READ: New jailbreaking tool available for some iPhone users
by Daniel Ionescu, PC World

Turn-by-Turn Voice GPS for iPhone

"Sygic Mobile Maps turns your iPhone into a real-time, turn-by-turn voice guided navigation system for $60.00.

With pre-installed maps, it is always with you on your phone, without other hidden costs or data plans, with no additional subscription fee for maps or data transfer.

Set the software to your preferred language for spoken instructions and text. There are more than 20 languages to choose from."

MacFixItForums moves to CNET :(

Just in case you don't understand

The following is NOT GOOD NEWS!

"For nearly a decade MacFixIt has provided free forums for Mac users at MacFixItForums.com. Today we are introducing new Mac Forums in the CNET Forums. These changes are a direct result of our acquisition by CNET...

As part of this transition, on 8/4/2009 all threads at MacFixItForums.com will become read-only. You will still be able to access and browse the existing threads at http://archive.macfixitforums.com. You may also begin posting immediately in the new forums available at http://forums.cnet.com/mac-forums.

If you have comments about these changes please post a message in this thread. We’ve also created a separate thread for suggestions you might have for the new CNET Mac Forums. We look forward to your feedback as we work to improve the forums. We want to build the best resource for our community members, and hear your ideas for creating the best Mac forums online.

We appreciate everything this community has contributed over the years, and we hope you will all join us in our new home at CNET.

Edited by cnet.aaron (07/27/09 11:10 AM)

READ: We’re moving to the new CNET Mac Forums
by cnet.aaron, CNET