Mac IT Guy: OS X Lion Server

With all the attention on the desktop version ofMac OS X Lionand its 250 - plus new features , the word about Mac OS X Lion Server has been somewhat disregard . That ’s a pity , because it looks like there ’s going to some really good stuff in it . Pricing and distribution The first two bits of good stuff are the terms and the way of life you get it ....

June 13, 2011 · 5 min · 1053 words · Roger Riggs

Opinion: Why Apple scrapped MobileMe for iCloud

As Apple gets quick for thefall launch of iCloud , its brand newfangled cyberspace service for Mac and Windows , it seems only right to score ( if not exactly mourn ) the passing play of MobileMe , one of the rare product flop Apple has seen in recent twelvemonth . While there was much to praise about MobileMe , there were too many problem — both real and perceived — that ultimately doomed the service ....

June 13, 2011 · 10 min · 2045 words · Courtney Hart PhD

Acclivity AccountEdge 2011

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict Acclivity’sAccountEdgeis seldom a surprise . execute the install and open up AccountEdge and what you ’ll find is a solid bookkeeping diligence with a liberal stage set of tools for managing your business finances . What was once an outlier in the Mac accounting creation , an alternative toQuickBooks Pro , has lento and steadily become the smooth , efficient , thoughtfully updated standard for managing your line of work ’ book ....

June 12, 2011 · 5 min · 899 words · Spencer Dodson

PlayBook OS updated after Adobe Flash security issue

A newfangled version of the BlackBerry Tablet OS will soon be available to all BlackBerry PlayBook tablet user , to turn to a security issue fire by Adobe about its Flash Player , Research In Motion said Sunday . The new version of the operating organization , version 1.0.5.2342 , will stop an update version of the Flash Player , RIMsaid in a blog post . Adobeissued an updatelast week for its Flash Player to deal with a cross - site scripting exposure ....

June 12, 2011 · 2 min · 369 words · Juan Wiley

The Macalope Weekly: Keeping the party rolling

Most of what make a good party is who ’s there . Sometimes a party ’s better without certain people , just like you ’ve bring forth to make certain your pavilion meeter do n’t leave early . at last , when the jerks show up , you fox them out . You think it ’s easy cerebrate up a metaphor that ties three Apple stories together ? It ’s not ....

June 11, 2011 · 7 min · 1437 words · Tanya Vasquez

Weekly Wrap: WWDC, iCloud, iOS 5, Lion, fast iMacs, and much more

We started the Weekly Wrap a few weeks ago , to help you catch up onMacworldstories you may have missed . But if you overleap the big stories this retiring week , you might want to see your doc ; this was the week of the Worldwide Developers Conference ( WWDC ) , Apple ’s one-year event wherein it fix all sort of exciting tech announcement . miss our big stories the calendar week of WWDC is like a football fan draw a blank about the Super Bowl , or an American accidentally forgetting not to keep an eye on association football ....

June 11, 2011 · 4 min · 720 words · Chad Munoz

First Look: iOS 5 Reminders

It ’s understandable if you ’ve barely give more than the briefest of attention to Apple ’s newly - announce Reminders app foriOS 5 . After all , it was just one ofthe ten tantalizing iOS 5 featuresApple frailty prexy Scott Forstall unveiled during the Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday , and a fresh to - do list app seems decidedly less sexy than , say , the novel notifications system ....

June 10, 2011 · 5 min · 918 words · Jeremy Fitzgerald

Lab Report: Core i7 SSD iMac is the fastest Mac we’ve tested

While the standard - configuration models of Apple ’s iMac offer telling carrying out , if you choose a couple of physical body - to - ordination ( BTO ) options , you could have a 27 - inch iMac with a 3.4GHz Core i7 quadrangle - core processor and a 256 GB SSD — an iMac that ’s even faster than a Mac Pro . This $ 2699 BTO iMac take the top - of - the - product line standard configuration iMac — a $ 1999 27 - inch 3....

June 10, 2011 · 6 min · 1235 words · Kimberly Johnson

The Macalope Daily: Blink

Hey , kid , think back all the direction back in February when you were reading about Apple ’s new subscription rules and just about suffocate on those heart - shaped Valentine candy you ’d bought yourself but pretended came from your secret admirer ? “ Whaff abouff dah Kindle ? ! ” you blurt , spit sugar laced with carcinogenic dyestuff at the screen door of your Mac . Well , the other skid has dropped ....

June 10, 2011 · 2 min · 371 words · Jennifer Coleman

Mac OS X Lion: What you need to know

The last clock time Apple updated the Mac operating system—2009 ’s Snow Leopard departure — the most notable changes happened under the thug . That ’s not the case with Lion , the next major adaptation of Mac OS X. Apple has been step by step pulling back the drapery on its late and greatest cat , first at apreview case last Octoberand then this week at the Worldwide Developers Conference ....

June 9, 2011 · 19 min · 3877 words · Steven Davis

The Week in iOS Accessories: Back with a vengeance!

It ’s been a few week , but we ’re back with a big roundup of the a la mode in battery , loudspeaker system systems , and just about everything else you might need to fit out your iPhone , iPad , or iPod sense of touch . Altec Lansing ’s Mix boombox Altec Lansing : If you sleep with carrying around your integral euphony library on your iPhone or iPod , but feel nostalgic for the gargantuan boom boxes last seen in the 1980s , Altec Lansing’sMix Boombox ( iMT810)(iPhone , iPod touch sensation ) can provide the party ....

June 9, 2011 · 8 min · 1641 words · Robert Gross

iOS 5 additions force some developers to think different

It ’s pretty much a given that with each major update to Mac OS X or iOS , Apple will add to the OS feature previously supply by third - political party developers . These are often features that were in such demand that others had ill-use in to provide them , but , eventually , Apple ascertain their utility and determine they were things that should be a part of the OS ( or its built - in apps ) ....

June 8, 2011 · 9 min · 1851 words · Robert Atkins

WWDC: Apple goes to the mattresses

Something about Apple ’s presentation at its 2011 Worldwide Developer Conference in June prompt me of mob movies . No , I ’m not likening Steve Jobs tothe Godfather . But Apple ’s keynote presentation address so many longstanding Apple weaknesses and took the company in so many challenging new directions , that I was remind of the relentlessness of movie tough guys . Old business Not the Godfather . But settle old business ....

June 8, 2011 · 8 min · 1561 words · Richard Fowler