Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category

Valve today announced Steam for Mac. The announcement ends years of Valve’s absence from the Mac platform.
Originally, Valve went all-in with a Mac port of the original Half-Life. However, shortly before its release, similar to their Dreamcast port, the game was cancelled with few reasons given. Gamers have been playing both generations of Half-Life on [...]

The Problem: Your 13-inch White MacBook has two hard drives (lucky you). You use your USB DVD drive to install Windows on your 1 TB dream machine, only to find that once installed, Windows doesn’t see your DVD drive, and you can’t install Boot Camp.
Here’s what’s going on: Your shiny new MacBook relies heavily on [...]

Apple has rolled out its latest Digital Camera Raw Compatibility update for Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which now stands at version 3.0. The update adds compatibility with the Canon sRAW image format for Aperture 3 and iPhoto ‘09 for the following cameras and sub-formats:

Canon PowerShot S90
Canon sRAW
Canon mRAW
Leica D-LUX 4
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1
Panasonic Lumix [...]

Apple has rolled out a firmware update for Mac Pro models with Nehalem-based Intel processors first released in March 2009 that addresses the overheating issues and substantially degraded performance when performing audio oriented tasks, even something as simple as iTunes playback.
The update is currently only available for Snow Leopard, with the Leopard update having no [...]

Apple has begun a hard drive recall with MacBook models produced between 2006-2007 being affected by hard drive failure. The models affected include the white or black MacBook purchased between 2006 and 2007, with the 1.83GHz, 2.13Ghz, or 2.16GHz processor and 60GB, 80GB, 100GB, 120GB or 160GB hard drives.
The recall does require proof that [...]

Apple has rolled out a new firmware update for the 2009 model of the Aluminum Wireless Keyboard which addresses and improves battery performance when used in combination with other Bluetooth devices.

Ever wanted to be inside Macworld Expo, before the show opened? We took 71 photos covering the hour before Macworld opens. You get to see nearly every booth, and see what it’s like when the floodgates open.
Hit read more below for the entire photo gallery.

We’re live from Macworld Expo 2010, kicking off our all-HD coverage of the show. IDG World Expo, which runs Macworld Expo, calls the event this year a “new era”, representing the fact that Apple has bailed on the trade show for the first time.
Last night’s press reception was even more tepid than we expected, unfortunately. [...]

Assuming you are actually anal-retentive, we’re assuming you already keep multiple backups of your stuff. This guide details what to do when your hard drive actually does fail.
This weekend, the RAID array in my MacBook failed (one of the two Seagate 500 GB hard drives developed bad sectors). The guide below details what I did, [...]

LogMeIn confirmed to TechNews.biz this week that Hamachi VPN services are planned to finally return soon for Mac and Linux.
Hamachi is a VPN solution that creates a transparent IP tunnel for computers across multiple groups. Instead of requiring complex configuration, the service works through a user-friendly login and password method. After joining computers to the [...]