2006 June

We’ve been looking for a good, cheap (okay, free), clipboard manager for the Mac and we are now jumping in glee to find that our favorite one we passed due to the $20 price tag is free! Today only.
Download iClip v3.0 for free from macZOT and you’ll have probably one of the best […]

A reader has informed SvenOnTech that Apple’s hefty sized update (nearly 70 MB) fixes font issues seen in Firefox for some time now. Apple has not publicized the updates Firefox fix, but Hivelogic shows you side-by-side the difference. It’s there and one can see how Intel Macs showed a fainter and less crisp […]

Mac (OS X Tiger) Only: One of the greatest things about a Mac is removing a program is fairly simply. Click the program icon and drag it to your trash can. Empty the trash can and now it’s off your drive. Right? Well, the program is, but there are other pieces […]

Good news Apple MacBook Pro users (and those with PCs equipped with an ExpressCard slot.) Dell is rebranding the Novatel’s Merlin XV620 with its own Texas sized name. Why would I tell all y’all that Dell, a PC manufacturer, is a good thing for Macs? ‘Cause the ExpressCard its putting out for […]

I’m not a huge fan of Entourage but use it because Apple Mail doesn’t handle Exchange very well. I do love, love, iCal and will use it to view events since Entourage will synchronize to it. Yet still, I have to use Entourage. I still live in a PC/Mac world and thus […]

So you still have your CD cases all lying around the living room? Kinda like showing off those pretty liner notes, I guess. Huh? Well there is consequences with that my friend. What if while showing off that Beatles 65 CD your friend says, “Oh wow, I didn’t know you could […]

Robert Scoble, aka Scobleizer, wants a MacBook Pro. By his own admission. Heck he even raised money to buy a reader a MacBook and threw in XP for the Boot Camp. The guys own brother in-law works at Apple. Do see the connections people? He’s been in Silicon Valley for a […]

Is this the next version of OS X code named Leopard? Notice Internet Explorer there in the background? Note the scroll bar isn’t that of OS X’s Aqua but rather the block-like version of Windows. Also note the Boot Camp icon in the menu bar. One more notation, the Windows version is stated in the […]

Address Book is a nice, compact, and quick application for your contacts. However, if you’re looking for an even faster way to quickly look up a contact from anywhere on your Mac, then hit F1… or any other key you define.
TapDex is a wonderful freeware program that will find your contacts at the press […]

Many PC users think the Mac is void of many applications that swim plenty in the sea of Windows software. As discussed here by SvenOnTech and those of you that have left comments, truth is you can usually find a Windows equivalent version for the Mac. Yes, it’s not always the case but […]

Baseline is stating the obvious in its latest article of warning: unpatched old software is a security hazard to your computer. Windows or Mac or Linux or any other operating system. Security updates are released for the sole reason of patching holes that open your computer to vulnerabilities. Yet many won’t update […]

What does one do with their 800MHz PowerBook of yesteryear when they have a snazzy and cutting-edge MacBook Pro? Leave it on its on Bookendz dock and let it sit. At least that’s what I did for the last three months, until a couple of days ago.
From time to time, we like hooking […]

SvenOnTech has been calling for some advancements in the iPod for some time now. One of those is built-in Wi-Fi. Apple has been pretty quiet on any upcoming improvements to its DAP and rumors really haven’t made any mention of a wireless data connection (other than Bluetooth.)
Well, it seems someone else sees the […]

I stumbled over MacScan last week looking for a port scanner with an UI for OS X. I never found it (though SAINT, a web based UI, would have worked) but I did find MacScan which I thought was interesting. Interesting because it’s a spyware scanner and removal tool. Even more interesting is […]

Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a site that gives a good overview on all the good administration tools?
Guess what? There is one!
Check out this link: Mac OS X Troubleshooting Utilities
You can find almost any maintenance tool you want! This is, in my opinion a great “bookmark.”
And in other news…
Testers on the next OS […]

I’ve been a Mac user since about 1985, starting with a little 512K Mac that was portable, self-contained, and not much more than a toy. But I loved it, and I have owned a never-ending parade of Macintosh since then, upgrading about every twelve months or so. Man, that’s a lot of hardware!
All along, however, […]

Yesterday we told you about the sweet news reader for the Mac called NetNewsWire. Today, we tell you about another sweet product from the same company behind that sweet RSS/Atom reader. (Okay, we’ll cut out the surfer talk now.)
TigerLaunch is an application launcher for OS X (don’t let the name fool you.) […]

It seems that $1.99 just isn’t cheap enough to entice the masses. When Steve Jobs nabbed Hollywood for some content, he was pushing for cheap downloads and thought he had that at the two dollar mark. However, ABC just completed testing free online viewing of its shows at abc.com and the results are […]

Firefox and Safari (Safari RSS edition) both will suck down RSS feeds for easy news feed reading. However, if one has a good chunk of feeds in their collection, like SvenOnTech’s 900 plus feeds, then neither browser does a good job handling this. Add to the fact if you’re a NewsGator subscriber, then […]

As previously reported on SvenOnTech, you can run Windows or any other x386 operating system right now on your Mac. The company that’s making this all possible, Parallels, has just went gold with its Desktop for Mac product. This means two things, really. One, a really stable way to run Windows, or OS/2, […]