Cool Terminal Tricks For Mac

I love to use terminal on Mac OS Leopard, now Snow Leopard, to tweak and mess with my Mac, so I went around searching for different codes to use. I compiled a few cool and favorite codes and made a video showcasing them. All codes should work on Mac OS Tiger and above. Leave a comment on some of your favorite codes.

Apple is Ready to " Rock & Roll"

It's official. Apple will be holding a "Rock & Roll" event September 9, 2009 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco, California. What do you think they will announce?

Snow Leopard Major Additions/Refinements

Intro/QuickTime X

After playing around with Snow Leopard for quite some time, I noticed that there are numerous amounts of additions and refinements to the overall operating system. There are more refinements than new features. The main new feature is QuickTime X. QuickTime X is a nice application that allows you to view videos (of course) and record movies, audio, and your screen which is one of the new main features in QuickTime X. Not all the features that were in QuickTime Pro are in this version of QuickTime, but that may not be a big deal to some people. All the features that you had to pay for in QuickTime before are now included with QuickTime X. I will be giving a review/overview of QuickTime X shortly.

Exposé

 Exposé is also refined in Snow Leopard. Many people use Snow Leopard (especially me), and it now enhances your experience with your Mac. It is arranged in a classier fashion, and it prevents screen clutter of your application windows. When you hold down on a certain application, all the windows will open in that application will be shown in Exposé. Pressing tab will open Exposé in your other open applications. Also while in Exposé, your minimized windows are shown at the bottom of the screen.

Stacks

Stacks has also undergone a makeover. Stacks is much more professional-looking while still bringing you the same wonderful organization tool that Apple has provided. As everyone knows Stacks is very nice when you want to quickly access something. Now Stacks is scrollable, and now when you click on a folder in a Stacks, Stacks will bring you to the contents of that folder without opening the finder window. It was very annoying before when Stacks rerouted you to Finder.

Finder/Speed/Responsiveness

Speaking of Finder, it has become much more responsive and fast making it much easier to use. It has been totally rewritten in 64 bit, as have many of the other applications making them more responsive and fast. Waking up your computer from sleep and shut-down is much faster preventing wasted time waiting for your computer to do these sometimes stressful tasks. In addition to all of this, Microsoft Exchange support is now available.

Conclusion

Overall, Snow Leopard has many new refinements that enhance your experience using your already-wonderful Mac. It is a nice addition to Leopard, and it is definitely worth checking out especially since it is only $30.

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Three New Apple Stores Open for Business

Over the weekend, three new Apple stores have arisen worldwide:

1. Hamburg, Germany

2. Dedham, Massachusetts

3. Frisco, Texas

This will be Apple's second store in Germany, also there will be a total of nine stores now in Massachusetts, and lastly this will be a whopping 6th Apple store in the Dallas/Fort Worth area alone. So, if you live in any of these places, check em out. So I ask, "Microsoft, you guys better hurry up on them stores!" 

Leave a comment on what you think Apple's strategy is and on Microsoft's situation.

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Apple Online Store Is Down

The Apple Online store is down. Now, I know this happens sometimes, but only when Apple is adding new products (as they did this summer on for the iPhone 3GS and new MacBook line), or lowering prices. Does this mean Apple is adding new products, like an iPod Touch 3G maybe? Not likely since the iPod event hasn't occurred. Or are they lowering prices of the iMacs in preparation for a new line this fall and adding new features to them in the process? An SD Card Slot on the iMacs? Could Quicktime 10 be available to download on Leopard not just Snow Leopard?  And maybe they are redesigning the site for Snow Leopard, which is most likely. Whatever happens, we know will be very nice and hopefully new! Glad I got you excited!