Ongoing:Software

Update: Aperture 3 upgrade may cause library issues

Recent reports around the Internet suggest that the cause of Aperture 3's problems when upgrading Aperture 2.x Libraries may be related to running in 64-bit mode. Users who had previously had the problems are writing that running the program in 32-bit mode seems to ease the use of system resources and allows the upgrade to complete, though you can still expect a several hour wait for larger Libraries. The original report follows.… Read more

Weekly Utilities Update: Net Monitor, MiniUsage, TimeMachineEditor, more...

Our Weekly Utilities Update report is a list of all the updates for many Mac utilities that have been released in the past week. While utilities can be any tool that helps you perform a routine task (including image manipulation and synchronization), our main focus in this column is to bring you those that help in troubleshooting Mac hardware and software problems.… Read more

Weekly Utilities Update: Rember, Cocktail, VueScan, more...

Our Weekly Utilities Update report is a list of all the updates for many Mac utilities that have been released in the past week. While utilities can be any tool that helps you perform a routine task (including image manipulation and synchronization), our main focus in this column is to bring you those that help in troubleshooting Mac hardware and software problems.… Read more

Weekly Utilities Update: Pacifist, GrandPerspective, NTFS-3G, more...

Our Weekly Utilities Update report is a list of all the updates for many Mac utilities that have been released in the past week. While utilities can be any tool that helps you perform a routine task (including image manipulation and synchronization), our main focus in this column is to bring you those that help in troubleshooting Mac hardware and software problems.… Read more

Weekly Utilities Update: SuperCal, SwitchResX, Sophos, more...

Our Weekly Utilities Update report is a list of all the updates for many Mac utilities that have been released in the past week. While utilities can be any tool that helps you perform a routine task (including image manipulation and synchronization), our main focus in this column is to bring you those that help in troubleshooting Mac hardware and software problems.… Read more

Weekly Utilities Update: MacPorts, SmartReporter, AirPort Flow, more...

Our Weekly Utilities Update report is a list of all the updates for many Mac utilities that have been released in the past week. While utilities can be any tool that helps you perform a routine task (including image manipulation and synchronization), our main focus in this column is to bring you those that help in troubleshooting Mac hardware and software problems.… Read more

Weekly Utilities Update: OnyX, Display Maestro, MacCleanse, more...

Our Weekly Utilities Update report is a list of all the updates for many Mac utilities that have been released in the past week. While utilities can be any tool that helps you perform a routine task (including image manipulation and synchronization), our main focus in this column is to bring you those that help in troubleshooting Mac hardware and software problems.… Read more

Review: Drive defragmentation and optimization with iDefrag

While there are a number of utilities that will perform drive defragmentation and optimization, this option is usually included as a small side-feature along with a slew of other drive-related functions. Conversely, iDefrag is a small utility with the single purpose of running drive defragmentation and optimization, and does this job quite well. Over the years it has become a reputable and complete option for people wanting to defragment and optimize their hard drives.… Read more

Quick note for Office users

'Tis the season for patent court rulings! Yesterday Microsoft lost an appeal to a patent infringement case for how their Office suite (particularly Word) handles the opening of OpenXML documents. Microsoft made these the default document formats for the latest versions of Office (2007 for Windows, and 2008 for Mac), and as such have been widely adopted.… Read more