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“On Halloween, professional Ukranian online criminals were found using Trojan-horse software to target, for the first time, computers running Apple’s OS X operating system — just as they have been doing for years on the more ubiquitous flavors of Windows.” Wired news. This on the surface sounds like the first of what could be a [...]

The great Photoshop killer Pixelmator was released on Tuesday this week and it packs a punch. As a 20mb download for $59 US, you can experience how Photoshop should have been made or how it may look in the future. As the worlds first GPU image processor it applies filters almost instantaneously in an interface [...]

This week I am going to test the new features of “MarsEdit” as a desktop writing tool for the various blogs I write for. So far so good but if you have content to write have a look at the 30 day trial from Red Sweater software.

Apple today released Safari 3 for both Mac and Windows. The first thing that struck me was Safaris’ ability to render text properly, at least a hell of a lot better than IE or Firefox. The big difference however is speed. Safari is twice as fast as IE and certainly faster than Firefox. Get Safari [...]

From Fontifer a new online service that lets you create a font for Mac or PC from your own handwriting. I wish they had this when I was at school, I could have forged a heap of letters from my mum about not being able to attend. Simply print out the fontifer template, write your [...]

Having read about the details regarding Apple Final Cut Studio 2 and looking at some of the video online I have to say it was a surprise that this suite has moved so quickly to embrace new controls and new formats. The impressive videos including the Cohen brothers talk about “Color” shows the new color [...]

Jen Hawley of Siren music rang the other day after having inadvertently deleted a piece recored through Logic Pro on her MacBook. It was a classical piano piece recorded some weeks ago and when it was not found on the Firewire back up she wondered if it was still on the local drive. It turned [...]

Interesting, we just got a call from a company offering to host content management sites for $250 a month. In the last month or so we have been experimenting with an Open Source content management application, WordPress. We have found it to be extremely powerful and flexible. A large number of paid for content management [...]

So the final is complete of the 3D view of the Big Trousers office in Footscray. We hope to get this file uploaded to Google Earth but it may be a little too intricate. In the meantime to see the 3D image make sure you have the latest version of Google Earth and download our [...]

Well this is the first image in location with some detail. The next step is to work on optimized png images for the surface detail. This file can be downloaded and viewed in 3D now by downloading the image file and locater for Google Earth by clicking here. UPDATE: If you downloaded the first file, [...]

This comment from Apple is the best explanation of the current state of affairs within the music download industry I have read. The last paragraph puts it right back up the nose of European ( an especially the French ) government agencies who are now making iTunes illegal in those countries. “Much of the concern [...]

According to Apple, iTunes users should delay an upgrade to Vista if they want to maintain their iTunes functionality. Apple says that there were “compatibility issues” which would create some problems like a failure to play music and video purchased from the iTunes store; poor animation performance; and a failure to automatically synchronise media, contacts [...]

Work has been progressing on a few of our own 3D uploads for the recently released version of Google Earth that allows users to upload there own files for all users online to see. A free version of SketchUp allows one to “build” your own place then upload the file to Googles’ server. In the [...]

Steven Levy of Newsweek interviews Bil Gates. One question and answer had me intrigued. In many of the Vista reviews, even the positive ones, people note that some Vista features are already in the Mac operating system. You can go through and look at who showed any of these things first, if you care about [...]

Well I don’t know about you but according to this forum article it looks like the versions and process of installations have frustrated quite a few users. The last post I read had a bit to say. I somehow understand people here. I mean, look at the old Windows versions: the hard disk gets fuller [...]