Some important updates for a few Laughingbird Software products!

All three of these updates are free to all users who currently have the following software installed on their machines:

The Logo Creator version 5.0
(free update to v5.1)

The Flash Ad Creator version 1.x
(free update to v2.0)

The Corporate Identity Creator v 1.0
(Free update to v1.5!
Mac version is now available too!)

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Google Notifier’s hidden secreA Google developer has revealed a hidden Easter egg in the software.
David Oster, a Mac software engineer who works at Google, has published details of a cool hidden feature in Google Notifier.

In a note on the official Google Mac blog, Oster informs us of a hidden command that will list all your mails and calendar events in single menus, without any ‘View More’ sub-menus.

‘Pull down the Notifier menu (either Calendar or Gmail), hold down Command and Option, and click Preferences on the menu. You’ll see a hidden settings editor. Enter MaxMessagesOnMainMenu in the Key field (upper and lower case must be entered as shown) and 20 in the Value field, then click Set. Quit Notifier and start it up again.
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(Via Macworld UK.)

Interview with “Switcher Girl” Ellen Feiss

‘I’m Ellen Feiss and I’m a student’.

Back in the Spring of 2002, those words launched one of Apple’s more memorable, if not effective, ad campaigns. Known as the ‘Switcher’ ads, the spots featured real people telling real stories of being fed up with the hassles of PC ownership, and their subsequent relief upon switching to the Mac. By far the most popular of the ads from this series starred Ellen Feiss, a 14-year-old girl who ended up in the commercial totally by chance. While other ‘switchers’ quickly fell into obscurity, Ellen grew into an overnight internet cult hero of sorts, her fame spurred largely by the rumor she was high during the filming of her spot. Sites selling merchandise with her image sprung up on CafePress shops across”

(Via macenstein.)

Just got my Razr V3T from Rogers. The DAP plays AAC files so I can play all my iTunes music.

Here is a skin from Motox to make it more iPhone like:

Images are copyright 2007 Maconlysource.com

Mac Crack Attack!:

“Mac Crack Attack is a port of Crack Attack to the Mac OS X platform. Crack Attack is based on the Super Nintendo classic Tetris Attack. New in the mac version is sound, full-screen mode and some native Cocoa interfaces.

Mac Crack Attack is a fast paced ‘Tetris-like’ game for one or two players (networked). See Game Play and Screen Shots for further details.

Mac Crack Attack is open-source software and is licensed under the GNU General Public License. The sources are available for download via CVS from Sourceforge. As such this software is provided free if charge but if you like this software and would like to see more like it, please consider donating some money to Sourceforge via PayPa”

(Via crackattack.)

Apple’s options inquiry : “US investigators condemn Apple’s options inquiry”

Government investigators in the United States have privately condemned Apple’s internal inquiry into backdating stock options and have asked the computer company to hand over more documents detailing how executives were awarded the controversial bonuses, The Times has learnt.
The inquiry report, which Apple published last month, was deemed inadequate by investigators from the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the market regulator, and the Department of Justice.

(Via timesonline.)

Now Jedit X Rev.1.38 has been released.
2 improvements, including Traditional Chinese(Big 5 HKSCS)
encoding sniffer, have been conducted and 4 bugs were fixed.

artman21

MAMP: “

One of the most popular development platforms for running web applications is LAMP — Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (or Python or Perl.) MAMP plays on this acronym to bring Apache, MySQL, and PHP to your Mac. It couldn’t be any easier than with this app.

We’ve posted screencasts previously about running Apache and PHP/MySQL on your Mac. With MAMP it’s even easier. Just drag MAMP to your Applications folder and double click it.

One great reason to install MySQL and PHP is to run a blog. WordPress is our favorite blogging platform, and it requires MySQL and PHP. Here’s a screencast on how to install MAMP and WordPress on a Mac.

(One caveat about MAMP: it’s configured by default to run on port 8888. If you install it on a production server, for example on a box at MacMiniColo.net, you’ll probably want to change to port 80.)

(Via FreeMacWare.com.)

To those who find it a pain to extract the iSight drivers from BootCamp, here they are:

Primary iSight Drivers

Secondary Link

These will allow you to get your iSight working in Virtual mode in VMWare’s Fusion.

Parallels still does not support the iSight camera.

Cheers.

Xeric Design releases EarthDesk 4.0: “Xeric Design today announced the release of EarthDesk 4.0, its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map, for Mac OS X…”

(Via xericdesign.)

MacMini creativity

Our editors have compiled a list of the five most creative uses for the Mac Mini. Highlights include the Mobile Mac Mini and DeLorean setup. Which ones are your favorites? Continue reading for the list.

(Via techeblog.)

One possible fix for iPods with hard drive issues: “My iPod suddenly began hanging when playing a song, and would then freeze. After resetting it, the Apple logo came up, and there was a distinct clicking sound as the hard drive spun up, died, spun up, clicked, and died again. This repeated several times while the Apple logo was showing, and then progressed to a sad iPod picture (and at other times, a folder question mark picture).

Plugging it into the computer didn’t do much — it usually did the same thing with the Apple logo and wouldn’t start up. Rarely, it would get past that point and iTunes would inform me that the iPod is corrupt and needed restoring. I searched a bit online, and found that this is caused by a faulty hard drive (specifically, loose parts in the hard drive). But to my joy, there is a relatively easy fix.

Open up the iPod, and place a folded-in-half business card (or equivalent substitute) between the outer metal casing and the hard drive itself. This puts a small amount of pressure on the har…

(Via Mac OS X Hints.)

News: Parallels acknowledges parent company

:Friday, January 22nd, 2007

To our employees:

Parallels and SWsoft have continued to grow and succeed independently in the marketplaces in which they participate.

Because of the growing synergies between the two companies, we have decided to publicly acknowledge that Parallels is controlled by SWsoft as a means of further advancing our business goals.

While each company will remain a separate entity and maintain its own brand identity and website, we will now be able to openly communicate the strengths of our respective products to our customers, partners and other external stakeholders.

The combination of SWsoft and Parallels means that we are the only company in the world to provide a complete suite of virtualization and automation software that includes operating system virtualization (Virtuozzo), desktop virtual machine technology (Parallels) and our range of automation solutions across all major computing platforms including Windows, Linux, MacOS and beyond.

About virtualization specifically, management of both companies has always believed that these different types of virtualization each has its own advantages. And both types can work side-by-side for maximum benefit.

Both companies have succeeded by focusing on markets that are not served by other vendors, including OS virtualization for x86 platforms and virtualization for MacOS. Continuing this strategy, SWsoft and Parallels will be announcing more products that will enhance the choices available to IT professionals, developers and consumers. These will include a server edition of Parallels, as well as tools for managing multiple virtualization technologies – whether from SWsoft, Parallels or other vendors – with one user interface.

2007 will be a very exciting year for all of us. Let’s work hard and work together in pursuit of our shared goals.

Serguei Beloussov, CEO, SWsoft
Nick Dobrovolskiy, CEO, Parallels

Apple plans Boot Camp for Tiger fee: “Apple won’t force users to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5 to enjoy virtual Windows on their Mac, but will levy fee for final supported software.

(Via Macworld UK.)

Interview with Ben Rudolph | The Bleeding Edge: “Bleeding Edge 083: CES 2007 Video: Parallels Desktop for Mac, Interview with Ben Rudolph”

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(Via bleedingedgetv.)